Speeches

Madam President, Tempi and Adamuz: Accidents prescribed, crimes due to the strategy of the European Union for the slicing, privatization and liberalization of transport in Greece implemented by the governments of New Democracy, SYRIZA and PASOK. The elements relentlessly: ERTMS on 15% of Europe · network ETCS in 19% of · trains Full coverage in 2050. Why? as the Commission's report admits, in order to save business groups time, resources and investment. Here is the EU rule of law: for profit, in 2024 there were 1500 accidents and 750 deaths. Between 2021 and 2023, conflicts increased by 43%. You are "golden" with 117 billion euros of military mobility for the war plans of the European Union and NATO, while the people move on an obsolete, dangerous, understaffed railway. These heavy responsibilities are concealed by the Greek government and the European Union. The grand mobilizations that continue are proof that the crime of Tempi will not be forgotten. We all continue on the side of the families of the victims the struggle for vindication and for the punishment of those involved, no matter how high they may be. The crucial issue is: their profits or our lives.

Madam President, the report identifies the explosive problem of the people's housing and exploits it to strengthen construction groups and real estate. But the root of the problem is the housing commodity that is subject to the laws of profit maximization, supply and demand. The social housing programs he mentions are Public-Private Partnerships. Short-term leasing is one of the causes of the skyrocketing housing costs, while people's income becomes "striking" in the imperialist war involvement of the European Union and NATO in Iran, the Middle East, Ukraine. The report openly supports bank crows. Defends fast-track auctions of people's homes. It is concerned about social unrest and supports the suppression of mobilizations against the auctions, where the KKE is at the forefront in Greece. It is necessary for the working people to demand integrated housing planning under the responsibility of the state to meet their needs, the re-establishment of the Workers' Housing Organization, an exclusively state program of popular housing and a ban on · auctions. It must fight the cause of the problem, the commodification of land and housing, the capitalist market served and fortified by the European Union, the governments and the bourgeois parties.

Mr President, the aim of the report is not to combat the pay gap, part-time work or unemployment, which are more tormenting for women and worsening year after year. On the contrary, it links the narrowing of the wage gap to corporate profitability and competitiveness. That is, with thirteen-hour work, shifts until the final fall, intensity of labour exploitation, therefore equal pay for equal work downwards for men and women. It wants women to have cheap labour for the war economy of the European Union, engaged in the escalation of the warfare that has set the Middle East on fire with the US and Israel's war against Iran. The EU strategy tramples on the rights of workers, especially women, and leads continually to crimes, such as in the Violanta industry, where five working mothers were burned alive. Workers must fight for collective agreements for all, with stable work, fixed hours, measures to protect working women, motherhood, health and safety measures, creative leisure against the European Union, governments and groups, against the system of capitalist exploitation that breeds and reproduces women's oppression and inequality.

Mr President, the report charges the plight of workers exclusively to bad middle-class subcontractors, fuelling the anti-labour strategy of the European Union of governments, which presupposes contracts with miserable wages and non-existent rights for the profitability of capital. It does not even call for the abolition of subcontracting of slave-trading enterprises, but for certain rules to be laid down perpetuating this misery. This is the European Union. He subscribed to anti-worker abortions of the Greek governments. 13-hour work, working time arrangement, setting a minimum wage by ministerial decision, the dismantling of the Labour Inspectorate. We were expecting nothing more from liberal social democrats, the so-called left who voted for the report. They are forces that in Greece supported the trade union mafia of the GSEE, which co-signed the anti-worker agreement - cutter of collective agreements, which must be withdrawn here and now. The workers massified the trade unions to strengthen the class anti-capitalist line by struggling to change the correlations in the trade union movement, to break the abscess of class cooperation that supports the labour jungle and the system of exploitation.

Madam President, a report with inexpensive findings on poverty, hiding its causes, was also voted by liberals and social democrats who have served every version of capitalist management in the anti-people policy of the European Union, increasing absolute and relative misery, accuracy, energy poverty, reducing wages, pensions, commodifying housing, serving auctions. On the line, the poor should support the poorest, but leaving capital and exploitation untouched, while for the war preparation to be paid by the people he does not say nothing. Poverty is a consequence of class inequality, the plundering by the capitalists of the European Union that demolishes workers' people's rights and the system of exploitation as a whole. So no waiting for bankrupt recipes and restored saviors. The workers, with their struggle against the European Union, capital and governments, demand wage increases, collective agreements. No house in the hands of a banker. No sacrifice for the abattoirs. By overthrowing the system of exploitation and power in their own hands, they can live as they deserve in the 21st century.

Madam President, the Draghi report has been a lever for the European Union and governments to turn to the war economy, handing over wages, pensions and social rights to escalate the war. Supporting the competitiveness of groups with over 800, and previously with 760 billion, spurred the inflation race. It requires the abortion of 13-hour work, the enhancement of the degree of exploitation resulting in over 200 deaths at the places of work in Greece, so that the monopolies upgrade their position against competitors from China, the USA and other powerful states. The single liberalized capitalist market based on the competitiveness and profitability of the groups is responsible for the large increases in the prices of products of services, in the cost of housing, which along with inflation devoured the working people's income. To win, workers must lose the European Union, their monopolies and their state. Today it is about organizing and fighting for collective labour agreements with increases in wages and rights. Against the European Union, against capital, against governments as a whole, against the system of exploitation and wars.

Madam President, the struggling farmers in Greece, for 50 whole days on the roadblocks, rallied to their nationwide committee, unmasked and cornered the government of New Democracy and the policy of the CAP of the European Union that accelerate their elimination, the abandonment of production, its concentration in a few hands. This frame includes the measures supposedly protecting the wine sector, aimed at reducing supply, in order to protect the profitability of large winemaking groups, without ensuring income for small producers. At the same time, the European Union-Mercosur agreement, which is a complement to the CAP, and the Commission is arbitrarily trying to activate it, opens the door wide to cheap, duty-free imported agricultural products from Argentina, Brazil and elsewhere, boosting the profits of processors, merchants and owners of supermarkets and shipowners. Reply will be given by the rural fighters who continue their struggle for survival with great mobilization on Friday, February 13th in Athens. The KKE stands by their side in the common struggle of workers and peasants against the anti-people plans of the European Union, the governments and the bourgeois parties.

Madam President, the so-called Pillar of Social Rights of the European Union is the forerunner and rapporteur of anti-worker directives of the European Union and the governments, supposedly in the name of guaranteeing workers' rights, such as 13-hour work to bring out war production, the supposedly adequate minimum wage of hunger, the cutter of collective agreements based on the demands of industrialists in good cooperation with labour leaders, the generalization of the integration of artificial intelligence algorithms for the intensification of work, the dismantling and settlement of working time, which take off the accidents at work, but also the dropping of pensions and social rights at the stake of the war industry, in order to shield the competitiveness of the European Union groups in the sharpening confrontation with China, Russia and the United States. The working people must demand that no sacrifice be made for the abattoirs of war. Demand the overturning of anti-worker directives and regulations. To fight against the European Union and the state of the few, and their commitments against the system of exploitation.

Mr President, before the reactionary pact voted jointly by liberals and social democrats was implemented and the repression of the uprooted took off, the European Union called for new barbaric measures as part of war preparations and the economy. Deportations to countries ravaged by the imperialist war and conflicts continue, such as Syria. Expulsion of refugees to concentration camps outside the European Union. Launching deterrence with the involvement of Frontex's repressive mechanism, which will objectively lead to new deadly shipwrecks. Immigration diplomacy for cheap, flexible labor, both when and for what groups demand with real modern slave trade deals. Such unacceptable provisions are also adopted by the proposal for a law of the New Democracy government, following the anti-immigration law: fragmentation of residence permits, dependence of the worker on the employer for his leave, generalisation of bilateral agreements with third countries to ensure the required number of cheap workers. We are fighting to abolish the reactionary pact and its regulations of specialization and to guarantee the rights of the uprooted, to go to their countries of destination for life and work with rights.

Madam President, the massive mobilizations of struggling farmers in Greece are fighting against the barbaric policy of New Democracy that is crushing their income. The CAP of the European Union that New Democracy, PASOK, SYRIZA and Velopoulos voted for because it wipes them out. It supports big interests of food groups of processors that buy short-term and sell very expensive. OPEKEPE's scandal sprouted over decoupled aid from production, involving ministers, parliamentarians, party leaders of New Democracy and PASOK. So let the government do the tricks. The demands are well known already before the revelation of OPEKEPE's rottenness. In order to survive, they demand guaranteed selling prices that cover the cost of production, leave a sustainable income, a reduction in electricity, tax-free oil, full compensation for lost capital, free vaccinations against smallpox that reaps sheep and goats. Do not load the stolen OPEKEPE. Strengthening real production and no cuts in resources for the war economy of the European Union. With their majestic and just struggle and the shocking solidarity of the people that shatters state repression and social automations, they can succeed. We're on their side.

Madam President, children's addiction to the internet and social media is a real, growing problem. Its causes are the deadlocks experienced by children and their families, the commodification in all aspects of society, the rotten patterns and ways of life promoted. The implementation and application of EU legislation, the DSA and the DMA, do not address the problem, because they aim to strengthen the digital market and protect the monopolies of the European Union in their competition with those of the United States of America and China, which are ahead. A prerequisite for boosting their profitability is the generalization of algorithms, addictive schemes and targeted advertising for ideological manipulation and dependence. Children are a privileged target group for groups that exploit their special characteristics, and lack of critical treatment and experience. That is why the measures you propose, as well as those taken by the Greek government, are based on the individual responsibility of parents, the generalized and open monitoring of everyone's activity, online and offline, by the state and services. The solution lies in the struggle for all-round satisfaction of the needs of children and adolescents, in the smashing of capitalist exploitation and barbarism that reproduces the dead ends and despair of young people.

Madam President, the agreement negotiated by Trump and Netanyahu, with which the United States, NATO, the European Union and Israel agree, serves their own imperialist interests, the New Middle East project. It is in fact peace "with a gun to the head" of the Palestinian people, because it preserves all the causes that caused the genocide, the illegal occupation, the settlements, the atrocities of the settlers, and turns Gaza into a protectorate. It does not include an independent Palestinian state on the June 1967 border with East Jerusalem as its capital, with territorial unity, without occupation forces and settlements, nor does it include the return of refugees to their land. The Israeli occupation army has already violated the agreement 47 times until yesterday, adding dozens of new deaths to the more than 67,000 of the genocide. Now is not the time to be complacent. We are strengthening solidarity, the struggle for the just demands of the Palestinians. Giant solidarity demonstrations worldwide can put obstacles in the way of US, NATO, EU, Israel plans. The peoples must continue to support the struggle of the Palestinian people to shake off the occupation and decide their own future.

Mr President, the Commission's fine to Google has nothing to do with the protection of users and freedom of expression, as it is attempted to present itself. It is part of the wider antagonisms between the European Union, the United States and other imperialist centres, as well as the bargains that continue in relation to the trade agreement, the imposition of tariffs or fines, from which either the United States or the European Union prevail, the people will always be a loser. Moreover, the European Union has itself developed a reactive and dangerous legislation that facilitates the buying and selling and processing of personal data by economic groups. It has institutionalized the collection and exchange of data by state authorities for the monitoring and manipulation of workers with the aim of terrorizing them in front of and in generalized war preparation. He is working on new nightmare scenarios of mass surveillance with plans such as the notorious chat control. The workers must collectively clash with this policy, with capitalist property, with the monopolies and their state, which with such measures increase their exploitation and mine the struggles for their modern rights.

Mr President, the report by the Committee on Petitions is concerned that citizens' supposed trust in the European Union will not be lost. However, the petitions submitted and put forward popular demands and demands face lengthy and dead-end procedures, with the aim of cultivating false expectations of solving problems. After all, the problems are due to European Union regulations and directives, not their violation. As with the crime of Tempi: The relatives' report remains frozen for a year and a half, while there are serious developments. A victim's father went on a 25-day hunger strike to find out what happened to his son. We asked for the petition to be opened as a matter of urgency. What did you do? You are planning a visit to Greece in one year. Close your eyes to the New Democracy government. You perpetuate the cover-up, the complicit role of the European Union and the European Parliament and the parties that support and embellish it. You're cultivating the illusion that the workers will find their right here. But vindication of the workers' popular demands, vindication of the victims of Tempi, must ultimately be given by the workers themselves and the people, with tough struggles against the European Union, the governments and the parties that support it.

Madam President, the European Union, governments, big employers with anti-worker directives and employment guidelines that we have voted against impose a 13-hour work galley, rubber work, employer terrorism. With their laws they make strikes illegal, persecute trade union action by extorting them with layoffs. The European Works Councils have set up a workers' patronage mechanism in the name of supposed information and consultation for pre-empted decisions of the employers, seeking to impose them through the poison of social enterprise. No confidence of the workers in the mechanism that frames the compromised ETUC and ITUC and strengthens their integration and submission to the aspirations of the capitalist employers for the intensification of exploitation and war plans! Employees have their own resources: their struggle – as with the major strikes in Greece last week –, class unity and internationalist solidarity against their monopolies and power. They have on their side the militant movement that fights against capitalist exploitation. Internationally, they have the World Federation of Trade Unions on their side.

Madam President, Greek farmers are boiling helplessly in the face of sheep pox. We demand immediate measures to support them from the European Union and government, and vaccination of all animals. After all, CAP adjustments are worsening the position of struggling farmers, accelerating their displacement from the groups. Through the single market, a handful of monopolies are profiting and driving up prices on oil, electricity, fertilisers; impose prices below cost on agricultural products – ample money i.e. investments by agro-industrialists, even trimming natural disaster compensation for small producers. OPEKEPE-type scandals are taking place on the territory of the CAP. The New Democracy government has inflated this abscess, but it is the CAP support, disconnected from real production, that pushes the concentration of production on the monopolies and pressures the farmers to consent to the anti-people policy. The fighters with their ongoing struggles can corner the government and the European Union. They demand that the stolen goods not be charged, they demand tax-free oil and genuinely guaranteed selling prices for their products that ensure their decent living.

Madam President, without end it is the atrocities of the conquering state. Countless deaths, confirmed over 63,000, including 20,000 children. This is Israel, the "strategic partner" of the European Union, the New Democracy government and other parties that upgraded cooperation. The leveling, the annexation of Gaza, the generalization of settlements in the West Bank, the inhumane displacement of Palestinians, have one purpose: not to allow the creation of an independent, free, viable Palestinian state in order to promote the plans of the groups. We denounce the ban on the entry of the Palestinian delegation into the UN from the United States. The European Union continues to "back up" Israel and cooperate with it and is now supposedly on the verge of famine. Your hypocrisy is provocative. But the peoples of Europe are expressing massive solidarity despite the repression. Workers are blocking Israeli war cargoes in ports. They demand an end to genocide, the occupation, the blocking of humanitarian aid, all cooperation with Israel. They demand recognition of a Palestinian state on the border of 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Madam President, the Draghi report, at a time of heightened confrontation between the European Union and China, the United States and Russia, and preparation for a new economic crisis, expresses the interests of large groups. Strengthening competitiveness, war economy 800 billion from the backwardness of the peoples. Autumn of unpopular reforms. France is preparing for a memorandum. Germany is freezing welfare benefits, while in Greece the New Democracy government is preparing to legislate the extermination job 13 hours a day, promoting new provocative support for the groups and appearing as a return to the people of a minimal part of their savage tax robbery. The anti-people attack is based on the directives of the European Union, on the anti-people Stability Pact, it promotes the Union of Savings and Investments by robbing the social security funds. This is the path of imperialist wars and exploitation, of the escalation of the competitions of the European Union with other centers. The solution to the barbaric plans can be given by the workers, fighting for their modern needs against the strategy of the European Union, bourgeois governments and monopolies.