What Lefteris spoke about.

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Feb

2024

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Automated data exchange for police cooperation (“Prüm II”) (debate)

Mr President, the regulation under discussion is making the EU file bigger. To the already existing automated exchange of DNA, fingerprints, registration certificates, facial images are now added, namely the photo of a protester, a striker, but also any kind of data collected by the police. All the above are immediately notified to the European Union, Europol, Member States. The European Union and…

6

Feb

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meetings, in particular the special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 (debate)

Madam President, the Council has taken unpopular decisions against farmers, workers and young people who are tormented by your strategy. Like the CAP, which puts farmers on the streets for their survival. For the people there is not a penny left, but an extra 50 billion, oil in the fire of the imperialist war in Ukraine. We denounce the unacceptable demand of the government of New Democracy, which…

16

Jan

2024

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Fight against the resurgence of neo-fascism in Europe, also based on the parade that took place in Rome on 7 January (debate)

Mr President, suddenly you are concerned about the rise of the far right. But the bourgeois parties, with their anti-people policies over time, are its sponsors. In the Macron-Le Pen dilemma, the national army in favour of Macron surged Le Pen's percentages. They are now jointly passing abortion laws against immigrants. Doesn't the far right rule, for example, in Italy? Doesn't he support a govern…

15

Jan

2024

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Revision of the European Labour Authority mandate (debate)

Madam President, the European Labour Authority is another EU anti-labour mechanism that defends 'flexibility, mobility, the application of EU rules for the benefit of individuals and businesses'. It is the "model" for transforming the Labour Inspectorate into a supposedly "independent authority" with the Hatzidakis Law. Thus, the APR was deforested by the already few inspectors that existed, the c…

12

Dec

2023

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Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, Israel's atrocities in Gaza are breaking every boundary of horror: 18 000 dead, half civilians, 7 000 infants and children killed by bombs of the occupying forces, even in cold blood by snipers. The EU, the US, NATO support the massacre, either under pretexts such as the alleged right of self-defense of the occupier Israel and its political, financial, military support, or unconceale…

11

Dec

2023

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Role of tax policy in times of crisis (debate)

Madam President, the report reveals the anti-grassroots aims of tax-laundering the European Union, of bourgeois governments at the expense of the people, as with the 'bloody' surpluses of the New Democracy government: Recovery and attraction of entrepreneurship, hymns for the benefits of teleworking with new tax breaks for financial groups and their executives. It calls for additional environmenta…

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Nov

2023

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The lack of legislative follow-up by the Commission to the PEGA resolution (debate)

Mr President, the PEGA report acknowledged the extensive surveillance systematically carried out by the National Intelligence Service, under the responsibility of the New Democracy government and personally of the Prime Minister, against political figures, parties and journalists, against activists of the labour-people's movement. Of course, he does not make the slightest reference to the proven m…

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Nov

2023

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Children first - strengthening the Child Guarantee, two years on from its adoption - Reducing inequalities and promoting social inclusion in times of crisis for children and their families (joint debate – International Day of the Rights of the Child)

Madam President, five and a half thousand children have been murdered by the Israeli occupation state. Gaza is under siege. Schools, hospitals, maternity hospitals are being bombed. Genocide is a corollary of the right to self-defence that the European Union recognised in Israel, which supports the occupier. Now he's gonna care about the kids? Hypocrisy winks. The massacre in Gaza must stop now, b…

8

Nov

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 - Humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause (joint debate - Conclusions of the European Council and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause)

Madam President, the Gaza Strip has been pounded for 30 days. Occupying Israel is exterminating the Palestinian people. In the West Bank, it is killing, displacing, and abusing a real apartheid regime. And as the Council has decided, the European Union supports Israel politically, economically, militarily and provocatively recognises the right of the occupier to self-defence. The European Union, t…

16

Oct

2023

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Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (debate)

Madam President, STEP seeks to channel more money to the groups of sectors that the European Union ranks as critical, namely where the EU monopolies of China, the US and the imperialist war in Ukraine are lagging behind: digital technologies, so-called "clean" technologies, biotechnology. The European Union is taking note of the recession that is holding back group investments and is trying to ens…

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Oct

2023

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Medicine shortages and strategic healthcare autonomy in the EU (debate)

Mr President, despite the millions of deaths from the pandemic in Europe, it does not sweat the ear of the European Union and its governments. Your compass is the medicine-commodity, the hospitals that operate in terms of occupancy – as if they were hotels – while today there can be a single, exclusively state health system based on the criterion of free prevention, care and restoration of the hea…

3

Oct

2023

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Interim report on the proposal for a mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 (debate)

Madam President, the misleading debate about the large sums or small sums of money in the European Union's multiannual financial framework is trying to conceal its objective: to subsidize with the money of the workers the groups that are already "unleashing" the thickets of the European Recovery Fund. Its revision is due to the fact that tens of billions have been given for the strengthening of th…

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Oct

2023

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Rising precariousness in Europe including the need for aid to the most deprived (debate)

Mr President, the statements of the Austrian chancellor, 'they have no bread, let them eat cake', prove the unpopularity of the 'European pillar of minimum rights' which he cuts from the poor supposedly to help the poorest. In Greece, poverty vouchers for the supermarket have now been limited to the flood victims, who have been strangled by the policy that treats popular needs as a cost. Cut the c…

13

Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, as an achievement you have presented the escalation of the war in Ukraine with thousands dead in the imperialist conflict between the European Union, the USA, NATO and capitalist Russia, while competition with China for the control of markets and resources is also sharpening. Feeding tens of billions of dollars into the war by the robbery of workers deprives people of the necessar…

12

Sep

2023

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Towards a more disaster-resilient EU - protecting people from extreme heatwaves, floods and forest fires (debate)

Mr President, Evros still smokes with the biggest fire in Europe, with 19 dead, with 1 million burnt acres. In Thessaly whole villages drowned, 15 people have lost their lives, many missing, trapped, without water, without electricity, without food, exposed to infections, really abandoned by the bourgeois state. Workers' unions and mass organizations are at their side from the beginning, putting i…

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Sep

2023

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Consumer credits (debate)

Mr President, the situation of popular families is truly dramatic. Income barely reaches the middle of the month. It is eaten up by high inflation, unbearable accuracy in food, consumer goods, energy, expensive rents. So workers fall into the clutches of banks, trying to cover everyday needs with credit cards and consumer loans. What the directive seeks to do is to safeguard banks' claims against …

11

Jul

2023

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Relations with the Palestinian Authority (debate)

Mr President, dozens are dead and hundreds injured; the tragic account of Israel's murderous operation in Jenin, in the West Bank, and the airstrike in the Gaza Strip a few days ago. These dead and wounded come on top of more than 100 killed Palestinians since the beginning of the year, including young children. The pretexts of the State of Israel, which both the United States of America and the E…

10

Jul

2023

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Protection of workers from extreme heat and other extreme weather phenomena resulting from the climate crisis (debate)

Madam President, in my country, Greece, another worker lost his life two days ago, at Elefsina Shipyards, when he was sent for overtime in the fire, while he was facing health problems. The European Union makes some non-mandatory recommendations and seeks to blame climate change. But for the accidents - employers' crimes - are all responsible over time governments and the EU strategy, which have u…

14

Jun

2023

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Lessons learnt from the Pandora Papers and other revelations (debate)

Madam President, the revelations of the Pandora Papers and other lists and papers, such as the Lagarde list, bring to the fore the involvement of government officials, politicians, big businessmen in tax evasion and tax fraud. But who owns more than 50% of deposits in tax havens? The richest 0.01 of the population. It is the oligarchy of wealth that everywhere enjoys crushing tax exemptions, privi…

13

Jun

2023

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State of EU Cuba PDCA in the light of the recent visit of the High Representative to the island (debate)

Madam President, Cuba has established important rights for its people, such as exclusively public and free health, to which it devotes 24% of its national budget. In this way, he has been able to fight the pandemic and assist dozens of people around the world with medical brigades. The United States – with its murderous blockade and the other measures that have caused more than USD 140 billion in …

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May

2023

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Strengthening social dialogue (debate)

Mr President, two days ago an employer's crime took the life of another worker in the Perama shipbuilding zone. Large hoteliers threaten a clause of 5,000 euros if their employee resigns from their occupation. This reveals the ghettos of capitalist development, which parties and governments of capital, liberal and social-democratic, promote. The stability, competitiveness and sustainability of the…

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May

2023

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Roadmap on a Social Europe: two years after Porto (debate)

Mr President, in the European Union, poverty and social exclusion threaten 95 million workers. Trade unionism is banned in 10 countries; In more than 15 countries, the right to strike is violated. More than half of the workers work without a collective agreement. Flexible forms of employment are widespread everywhere. Partial unemployment is being swept away by EU-wide widely advertised programmes…

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May

2023

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Impact on the 2024 EU budget of increasing European Union Recovery Instrument borrowing costs - Own resources: a new start for EU finances, a new start for Europe (debate)

Mr President, the reports on the Recovery Fund "make dust" the pre-election propaganda of the "pseudo-saviors" (New Democracy, SYRIZA, PASOK, MERA25) in Greece. It is not about "sacks of euros" that can be made available for the benefit of the people, but about a memorandum: It is loading peoples with additional anti-people measures and prerequisites until 2027. "Fiscal stability" means new reduct…

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Apr

2023

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Social Climate Fund - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (debate)

Mr President, Fit for55, the strategy of the green transition, instead of real environmental protection measures, favours groups to pollute without impact or at a minimum cost and this is constantly returned to them as a green subsidy. The people pay multiple, with their own resources-taxes, with green trolleys, with huge expenditures for green building standards, vehicles that they are forced to …

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Mar

2023

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Adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion (debate)

Mr President, the resolution on minimum income sheds crocodile tears over the plight of workers who work for crumbs and face the race of inflation, the prices of basic products and services, the outpouring from banks and funds. It calls on the Commission to table a draft directive equivalent to that on the minimum wage, that is, the directive calling for the unacceptable abolition of collective la…