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Jun

2022

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2021 Report on Turkey (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, if we should learn one thing from Putin's invasion of Ukraine, it would certainly be zero tolerance, because some people unfortunately perceive tolerance as a weakness. Turkey continues a tactic at least dangerous, which we have pointed out many times. He is constantly stepping on two "boats", one in the East and one in the West, and should be asked to choose, w…

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May

2022

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Madam President, following Putin's invasion of Ukraine, tectonic changes are taking place in the international diplomatic and geostrategic arena. New relationships, new challenges, in simple terms: We are in a new world. And we need a new transatlantic strategic partnership. The visit of the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to the United States, as well as his historic speech to the US C…

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May

2022

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Mr President, events such as Putin's invasion of Ukraine do not come as a thunderbolt. There are always signs; Signs that we often do not want to see, even if they are obvious and clear. Great ideas and revisionist practices, threats and provocations, disregard of treaties and violation of rules of international law, disputes of national sovereignty, demands for demilitarization, hybrid threats to…

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Apr

2022

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Outcome of the EU-China Summit (1 April 2022) (debate)

Mr President, High Representative, in the Brussels bubble, as ‘masters of constructive ambiguity’, we characterise China simultaneously as a cooperation partner, an economic competitor and a systemic rival, and finding the balance in this often contradictory mix can be extremely challenging. Clearly, China cannot be labelled as a cooperation partner when it imposes sanctions on Members of this Hou…

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Apr

2022

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Mr President, Greece, like everyone else, strongly condemned Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and sent humanitarian aid and defence material. Greece maintains with Ukraine religious ties, close ties of friendship, since in Mariupol, until before the war, more than 150,000 Greeks lived and worked there. Mariupol, today, is completely destroyed. It's a ghost town. The reconstruction of Ukraine, the retur…

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Mar

2022

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Madam President, it took the European Union a full year to deal effectively with the crisis in the Eurozone in 2009 and four full months to deal effectively with the health and economic consequences of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Today, therefore, more than ever, the European Union must react swiftly in order to effectively address the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine. The European Unio…

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Mar

2022

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Macro-financial assistance to the Republic of Moldova (debate)

Mr President, we support today, and rightly so, the European Commission's proposal to provide more funding to Moldova to counter the economic fallout of the war in Ukraine. But Putin's war has repercussions not only for Ukraine and Moldova, but for all the countries of Europe and beyond. Unfortunately, every day that the hostilities continue, more blood is shed, more human suffering is caused, we …

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Mar

2022

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Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the EU (debate)

Madam President, we’re all acutely aware of the pressures our democratic models face from the rise of populism and disinformation, and there’s certainly no shortage of actors on the world stage that stand ready to exploit and probe these pressure points. In this important report, we see the same states mentioned again and again, notably Russia, China and Turkey. In the case of Turkey, we’ve highli…

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Mar

2022

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Mr President, in the shadow of the war, we must dedicate this year's Women's Day to Ukrainian women. To the women of Ukraine who, together with the men, took up arms and entered the battle to defend their homeland, their freedom and their lives, who, united like a fist, make homemade Molotov cocktails and enter in front of Russian tanks determined to resist. The women of Ukraine, who give birth in…

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Feb

2022

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2021 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2021 (debate)

Madam President, in our resolution we again express our deep concern about the foreign policy of the Erdogan government. Last week we heard incredible accusations by Turkish officials about the status of the Greek islands in the Aegean, which not only do not comply with basic principles of international law, but move to the limit of the absurd. Obviously, Greece rejects them and obviously, the Eur…

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Feb

2022

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Madam President, we are fighting a lot together to defend the principles and values of the European Union, European culture and democracy. Europe is a Greek word and the myth of Europe is a symbol of European culture. Democracy was born in Greece and the Acropolis monument is a universal symbol of democracy. I stand before you as a Greek and European citizen with the deepest consciousness that tod…

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Dec

2021

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The European Commission Guidelines on inclusive language (topical debate)

Madam President, I confess that, when I was elected as a Member of the European Parliament, I was anxious to defend our common principles and values, but also our equality and anti-discrimination policies here in the European Parliament. Of course, I had not imagined that such a debate would take place today in plenary, let alone that I might have to defend my right to say 'Merry Christmas'. We do…

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Nov

2021

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The outcome of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) (debate)

Mr President, as Vice-Chair of the Committee on International Trade (INTA), I support the Trade and Technology Council as a positive development in transatlantic relations, and Pittsburgh was a good starting point. The question is now what can we expect from the TTC? We know it will deal with trade and technology, so that takes care of the two Ts. But the essence of what we can expect can be descr…