What Lefteris spoke about.

21

Jan

2026

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Restoring control of migration: returns, visa policy and third-country cooperation (topical debate)

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 …

20

Jan

2026

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Situation in Venezuela following the extraction of Maduro and the need to ensure a peaceful democratic transition (debate)

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 Unio…

18

Dec

2025

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30th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton-Paris Peace Agreement (debate)

17

Dec

2025

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Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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 Europ…

15

Dec

2025

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Amending certain CAP Regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penalties (debate)

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 sp…

25

Nov

2025

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Protection of minors online (debate)

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 …

24

Nov

2025

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Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes (debate)

21

Oct

2025

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

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…

20

Oct

2025

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The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

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 t…

9

Oct

2025

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Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024 (debate)

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, n…

8

Oct

2025

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Establishment and functioning of European Works Councils - effective enforcement (debate)

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 su…

7

Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

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 …

6

Oct

2025

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Revision of the Visa Suspension Mechanism (debate)

Madam President, we condemn the inhumane visa suspension mechanism, part of the reactionary Migration Pact. It is a testament to the intensification of competition, the instrumentalisation of refugees, the strengthening of the sanctions policy in unpopular countries. The European Union and governments that are protagonists in the imperialist wars for the profits of the groups appear as defenders o…

9

Sep

2025

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Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine, the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solution (debate)

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 P…

8

Sep

2025

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Investments and reforms for European competitiveness and the creation of a Capital Markets Union (debate)

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 fre…

10

Jul

2025

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Post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (debate)

Madam President, bribery, takeover, customer relations in the scandal of the Payment and Control Agency for Community Aid, the notorious OPEKEPE, which sprouted on the rottenness of the EU CAP that is crushing struggling farmers and stockbreeders. Under the responsibility of the New Democracy government, all the previous ones that implemented this strategy and the complicity of the European Union,…

9

Jul

2025

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EU Preparedness Union in light of the upcoming wildfire and droughts season (debate)

Madam President, Evia, Chios, Attica, Crete were burned in the previous days. They are added to the more than 500,000 acres burned in Greece alone in 2024 and the more than 450,000 hectares in the European Union. The EU strategy implemented by the Greek governments and the EU Forest Strategy, for example, consider the means of prevention staffing and equipping the relevant services as a cost. They…

18

Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

Mr President, NATO summit in The Hague. In the city, that is, where hundreds of thousands demonstrated in solidarity with the Palestinian people, against the genocide and famine by Israel with NATO backs – as now, in its attack on Iran, which is fuelling the fire of war in the Middle East. The main objectives of the summit are the escalation of the imperialist war in Ukraine, the opening of new wa…

17

Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

Mr President, hundreds of thousands of people across Europe are demonstrating and condemning Israel for its 620-day genocide in Gaza, expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people who are fighting for a free and independent homeland. And while more than 60,000 people have died, half of them women and children, and 51 people who went to get a dry piece of help have been murdered in cold blood, …

17

Jun

2025

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EU framework conditions for competitive, efficient and sustainable public transport services at all levels (debate)

Mr President, the EU transport strategy is now notorious in Greece, after - of course - the predetermined crime of Tempi, where two trains ran opposite on the same line for more than ten minutes, without any modern means of safety. This is the result of the pursuit of profit, the liberalisation of the railways implemented by New Democracy, SYRIZA and PASOK at the suggestion of the EU strategy. Thi…

16

Jun

2025

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Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy (debate)

Mr President, struggling farmers in Greece are being crushed by huge increases in production costs, for supplies, electricity and oil, by minimal compensation for major disasters, by mills and intermediaries who buy their products at very low prices. They are results of the large single market, the EU CAP that has brought them to the brink. These are responsible for the scandal with the agricultur…

22

May

2025

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Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2023 (debate)

Mr President, we want to denounce the decision of the European Parliament and the Committee on Petitions to close without debate a petition by the Greek resistance organisations on German reparations, with the provocative claim that it does not fall within the competences of the European Union. But the reparations for Nazi crimes, the forced occupation loan, the theft of archaeological treasures a…

21

May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Madam President, we strongly condemn the atrocities committed by the Israeli occupation state in Gaza. He has murdered over 53 000, mostly women and children. More than two million are facing famine. 100 000 have been displaced in recent days. 120 000 more wounded, babies, children and the elderly are being killed after the occupier has dismantled health facilities. The pretexts for self-defense h…

8

May

2025

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80 years after the end of World War II - freedom, democracy and security as the heritage of Europe (debate)

Mr President, 80 years since 9 May 1945, when Nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally. This is not Europe Day, as the European Union claims, but the great anti-fascist victory of the peoples. The peoples do not forget the millions who fell in the struggle to crush the fascist axis. They honor the enormous contribution of the Red Army, the Soviet people, the national liberation movements led by th…

7

May

2025

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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)

Madam President, the recent blackout in Spain and Portugal and the serious problems it has created highlight the unpopular nature of the European Union's energy strategy. The same strategy – liberalisation of the market, ‘monoculture’ of RES, fast track delignification, dependence on expensive LNG, premiums for groups with guaranteed prices – is being followed in Greece. It intensifies energy pove…