What Lefteris spoke about.

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Jul

2026

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Feasibility of a 28th tax regime and its potential to support EU competitiveness (debate)

Madam President, the so-called '28th regime' raises the level of increasing the profitability of groups. Through a single framework at European Union level and by providing for simplification of procedures, it liberalises the cross-border action of European monopolies in order to attract investment by raising capital vis-à-vis competitors from China and the US. A tax unit foreshadows new capital r…

8

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2026

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Defending European democracy and the integrity of the European Parliament in light of revelations that an MEP was subject to surveillance by illegal spyware (debate)

Madam President, the wiretapping scandal in Greece, the surveillance, including spyware, of MEPs, soldiers and journalists are not isolated incidents. With EU directives and regulations, in their implementation by governments, the monitoring of everything became normal. The European Union is urgently calling for the adoption of the dangerous Chat Control mass surveillance regulation. It follows fr…

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Jul

2026

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Mr President, the regulation serves the needs of capital for cheaper and more flexible labour. In practice, it adapts the current framework of personalized and commercialized hunger insurance, with the generalization of professional funds to the needs of the market, as recently announced by the New Democracy government through the Bank of Greece. Its aim is cross-border mobility, i.e. mass migrati…

7

Jul

2026

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Air passenger rights (A10-0191/2026 - Andrey Novakov)

Mr President, the regulation adopted invokes the rights of passengers in air transport, while meeting all the demands of the major groups in the industry that are making record profits and have already been swamped by state and EU subsidies. It further reduces the obligations of airlines, cuts compensation for passengers and paves the way for their definitive limitation, maintaining the rubber con…

7

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2026

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Urgent measures to strengthen the competitiveness and safeguard quality jobs in the EU’s automotive sector (debate)

Madam President, you have admitted that there will be 600 000 redundancies, 100 000 in the Volkswagen Group alone. The European Union is frustrated to support the groups in the fierce competition with China and the US in a number of sectors – batteries, electrification – but above all by turning to the war economy as a profit-making outlet through the production of vehicles, tanks and dual-use ite…

17

Jun

2026

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Electrification Action Plan (debate)

Madam President, the European Union's electrification project is being put forward as an alleged response to a problem created by its strategy and the consequences of the imperialist wars in which it participates. It strengthens European Union-based groups in fierce competition with those that dominate, for example the Chinese in electrification. Expensive LNG, monoculture of RES and the energy ex…

16

Jun

2026

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The role of the EU in efforts for peace and stability throughout the Middle East after the announced deal between the US and Iran (debate)

Madam President, under the hypocritical title of ‘De-escalation in the Middle East’, the European Union is trying to hide the course of the escalation of war – despite fragile, temporary compromises – as well as the brutalities of its allies: the ongoing genocide of Israel against the Palestinian people, the atrocities against the 3 800 dead Lebanese people, the dirty US-Israel war against Iran, a…

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May

2026

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High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (continuation of debate)

As we have revealed from this step, and in other cases, the anti-worker legislation approved by all the governments in Greece, the current New Democracy and the previous ones, have been approved and have the support of the European Union, such as the bill on thirteen-hour work, such as the change of the Labour Inspectorates related to the escalation and generalization of employer crimes-accidents,…

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May

2026

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High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (continuation of debate)

Madam President, today first-hand workers know that the capitalist single market and quality jobs are incompatible. As "safeguarding safety and predictability", the European Union, governments and big employers mean the removal of collective agreements, labor relations rubber, thirteen-hour work, today for the goals of the war economy, the settlement of working time, four-day 10-hour (and put), th…

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May

2026

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Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

Madam President, Madam Vice-President Kallas, you know nothing about the US blockade of Cuba and its consequences, do you? Because what we have here today is another debate of convenience, while the United States reinforces the blockade against the Cuban people and increases the threats of military aggression against Cuba. This is further proof that the Union is complicit in intervention against a…

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2026

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How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases? (debate)

Madam President, the struggling stockbreeders on Lesvos see their lives buried in pits and the New Democracy government is deaf to their demands for 100% compensation for their losses, for full replenishment of lost income and vaccination, to limit unfair killings. First their animals were left unprotected in the face of the autocratic fever. Then an irrational lockdown was imposed by the governme…

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2026

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The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report (debate)

Mr President, the report seeks to make European Union law the protector of people's rights and freedoms, when in reality it is the European Union's rule of law that brutally violates the rights of workers, young people, women, migrants and refugees, of other peoples, through wars that the European Union supports. Even some of the findings that the report may make are invalidated by the big picture…

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2026

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Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

Mr President, the European Union and its governments, in the spirit of NATO decisions, are preparing a war budget tool to compete with the Eurasian bloc under development, led by China and Russia, but also by the United States of America. The 1.8 trillion to boost the war industry, military mobility, dual-use infrastructure will be made by cutting spending on health-welfare, education, robbing pen…

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Mar

2026

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Madam President, we condemn the economic strangulation of Cuba by the United States, which is turning into genocide. The sixty-seven-year blockade has cost two trillion dollars in damages, depriving the people of basic goods, medicines and services. It prevents oil imports, causing serious difficulties in the electricity supply. It is a deadly danger for thousands of people with ch…

25

Mar

2026

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 March 2026 (debate)

Madam President, in the Council, the European Union has regurgitated the false pretexts of the US and Israel for the dirty war on Iran, while leaving open the possibility of even greater assistance than it is already giving, as with Operation Shields. The focus is monopolistic interests in energy routes, investments in the "Palestinian Riviera" with the displacement of Palestinians, recons…

12

Mar

2026

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Rail transport safety in the EU – lessons learnt from the Adamuz accident and three years after the Tempi tragedy (debate)

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 ad…

11

Mar

2026

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Situation of the rule of law in Greece, following the Court decision on Predator spyware (debate)

10

Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (A10-0025/2026 - Borja Giménez Larraz)

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 cau…

9

Mar

2026

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Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors (debate)

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Feb

2026

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Addressing subcontracting chains and the role of intermediaries in order to protect workers’ rights (debate)

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 la…

11

Feb

2026

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Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategy (debate)

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 sup…

11

Feb

2026

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Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

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 resultin…

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Feb

2026

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Amending Regulations on agricultural products as regards market rules and sectoral support measures in the wine sector and for aromatised wine products (A10-0220/2025 - Esther Herranz García)

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Feb

2026

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Extreme weather events in particular in Portugal, southern Italy, Malta and Greece: European response in strengthening readiness, preparedness and solidarity mechanisms (debate)

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Jan

2026

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A new action plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights (debate)

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 industr…