Speeches

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 government and the European Union. These are the directions of the CAP that measure everything based on the profits of the export monopolies, strangling the island so as not to soil the feta certificates and harm the industrialists. A policy that has already led to over 500,000 animal deaths due to smallpox in mainland Greece. We join our voice with the struggling farmers who here and now demand full compensation, replenishment of lost income, effective protection measures, such as vaccination and staffing of the veterinary services, as well as a programme for the reconstruction of herds lost under the responsibility and exclusive funding of the state.

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 it is trying to form. In fact, it makes no mention of specific states and serious cases. In Greece, the OPEKEPE government scandal sprouted over the Common Agricultural Policy. The wiretapping scandal, which the government and the leadership of the judiciary are covering up, has revealed the content of a European Union regulation on the free purchase and sale of spyware. Crime in Tempi is the most glaring example of where the European Union's guidelines for liberalising and privatising the railways are leading. The European Union and its mechanisms, such as the European Public Prosecutor's Office, are therefore not the protectors of the peoples. The protection of workers' popular rights requires conflict with the European Union, with its culpable and reactionary legal framework and with the parties that serve it for the benefit of business groups.

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 pension funds and popular deposits. The antagonisms of the various blocs of governments within the European Union, between, for example, those demanding more or less money, which in any case go to the big groups, as well as those fighting for more unpopular cuts or more own resources-taxes, which in any case the people pay, are a pseudo-dilemma for the workers. The European Union budget smells of gunpowder and blood. New Democracy, PASOK, SYRIZA, the other parties do not question the polemic orientation of the Multiannual Financial Framework. The working people must demand by their struggle no sacrifice for the abattoirs of war.

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 chronic diseases, for pregnant women. The EU supports this strategy. He welcomed U.S. interventions in Venezuela and Iran. Parliament with resolutions demands sanctions against the Cuban people. It embraces all kinds of coup mechanisms. The Greek people are with Cuba with massive demonstrations. It demands the immediate cessation of the blockade, of all sanctions and the removal of Cuba from the shameful list of sponsors of terrorism. The Cuban people have been thwarting U.S. imperialism's plans to overthrow its revolution for seven decades. Based on this heroic trajectory, and with the solidarity of the peoples of the world towards the Communist Party and its people, it will achieve it. Hands off Cuba.

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, reconstruction of Ukraine, the Indian road, against rivals China, Russia and the United States. We condemn the government of New Democracy, the other parties, which call "national interest" the dangerous involvement of the country in the war with Patriots in Saudi Arabia, frigates in the Red Sea, dozens of bases targeted for retaliation. Close the bases now and return the armed forces that are outside the borders. We express our solidarity with the peoples of Iran, Palestine, Cuba and Lebanon who are targeted. The Greek people and the peoples of Europe who "blood" for the war economy, not to be dragged to the war slaughterhouse, not to pay the consequences of the war. No sacrifice for the profits and wars of the imperialists. The escalation of the workers' popular struggle, the disengagement of Greece from the imperialist war plans, from NATO and the European Union, with the sovereign people.

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 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 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, we condemn the US military intervention in Venezuela. Beyond the ridiculous pretexts, the causes of the intervention are the seizure of energy mineral wealth and the fortification of the economic and geopolitical interests of the US in competition with China and Russia, which upgraded their presence in Latin America. We denounce the support of the intervention by the European Union, the sanctions that worsened the conditions of life and are a means of intervention in the internal affairs of Venezuela, but also the support of the New Democracy government in the intervention, as well as other bourgeois parties, which adopt the pretexts of the USA and wash away the attack in the name of democracy. Such statements reveal that so-called international law is used as an alibi for imperialist interventions and lead to very dangerous developments for the peoples. We escalate our solidarity with the Venezuelan people, who alone are responsible for determining developments in the country. We shout "Hands off Cuba", which is the target of threats and faces the barbaric blockade of the US and its allies.

Madam President, the implementation of the rule of law, i.e. the anti-grassroots EU legislation – this is what is at issue – is intensifying the workers’ and people’s problems and the decay of the exploitative system, such as that of OPEKEPE in Greece, the scandal that sprouted over the CAP funds sucked up by the various cadres of the state apparatus of the government parties. After all, the European Union is only interested in its economic damage. Thus, for example, the predetermined crime of Tempi does not investigate the crime itself, i.e. the collision of two trains and the death of 57 people, but how EU funds were distributed to groups for contract 717 that was delayed, under the responsibility of governments, under the responsibility of corporate monopolistic competitions and in the knowledge of the European Union. The conditionality mechanism is a redistribution of funds, serving the objectives of the groups in each case, even at the expense of Member States of the European Union that are not fully aligned with the strategic choices. At the same time, it seeks to manipulate workers, presenting the rotten values of the European Union and the bourgeois state that crush their lives and rights as a supposed "refuge". Against the system of exploitation that makes law the unjust, the working people struggle for their modern needs.

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.