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2023

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Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit (debate)

Madam President, the debate that is taking place and the resolution itself are revealing. The United States of America, the European Union, NATO and their governments are promoting the escalation of warfare by sending tanks and manipulating fighter jets. The Russian side is strengthening its own operations, mainly in Donbas. In the context of the imperialist war paid for by the Ukrainian people and the Russian people with their blood, the European Union is stepping up its intervention in Ukraine for investments, energy agreements and reconstruction worth billions of euros in competition with the United States of America. Agreements that mortgage the future of the Ukrainian people for capitalist profitability. It is abundantly proven that war is born of the fierce antagonisms of the monopolies, is waged by the bourgeoisie and the peoples are killed for the master's food. In Greece, New Democracy, SYRIZA and PASOK alignedly support the Euro-Atlantic plans, fuel the race of involvement, armaments and sanctions, which not only do not shield sovereign rights, but turn the people into a target. The independent struggle of the people for disengagement from the war and disengagement from the murderous alliances can provide an answer.

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Jan

2023

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter - annual report 2022 (debate)

Madam President, the alleged cleansing and transparency measures which the European Union claimed it would take following the Qatargate scandal have sunk into the mire of the interests of the monopolies it serves. The admission by those involved in the scandal that they had even drawn up a price list for resolutions and amendments for the defence of human rights by the European Union confirms what the KKE - that is to say - in an unsuspecting time denounced as an industry of human rights resolutions. It is even a huge challenge that the report proposes to upgrade the relevant DROI subcommittee that has been the focus. It goes a long way for the European Union, one of the main culprits of barbarism, oppression, imperialist wars, interventions, refugees and migration, to seek to appear today as the guardian of human rights. The European Union is instrumentalising human rights as a vehicle for intervention around the world to safeguard the interests of its groups. So what the peoples need to do is reject the self-appointed saviors, who intervene with expediency. With their struggle, to impose their right and interests against the exploiters and the rotten system they support.

17

Jan

2023

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Swedish Presidency (debate)

Madam President, the agenda of the Swedish Presidency is speeding up the anti-people strategy of the European Union and its governments, which is afflicting the peoples, who of course recognise who is the culprit, and this is also recorded in the very low acceptance of the European Union in the measurements. The priority is to escalate the war in Ukraine between Euro-Atlanticism and Russia and with the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO. The aim is for the European Union to intervene wherever it is, by implementing the dictates of the war-mongering security and defence policy, the strategic compass, by taking additional measures to continue the European Union's policy of repression. Sweden, a leading country in the implementation of the green transition, with renewable energy and nuclear energy, independent from Russia, is now announcing power cuts for the people. It turns out that this strategy leads people to pay a heavy price for the guaranteed profitability of the groups. The European Union, which defends monopolies, cannot provide a solution to the pressing problems of workers, such as accuracy, inflation and declining income. Only the people can save the people, when they realize the power they have in their hands, claiming their modern needs and marching on the path of overthrowing this system.

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Dec

2022

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90 years after Holodomor: Recognising the mass killing through starvation as genocide (debate)

Madam President, the historical facts are not disputed. The so-called genocide of the Ukrainian people adopted was a well-treated Nazi slander that was then dispersed by pro-Nazi press moguls such as Hearst and fascist gangs such as Bandera. In Ukraine, in Russia, in 1930-1932, there was indeed drought, there was famine, typhus. But you hide that the big peasant capitalists sabotaged the harvest, the warehouses, the machinery, murdered executives of the socialist state, exacerbating the problem. Of course, the real victims have nothing to do with the astronomical figures of Euro-Atlantic pseudonymism. You identify capitalist Russia, its unacceptable invasion of Ukraine, with the Soviet Union. You are using miseries, you are escalating anti-communist legislative atrocities, as in Poland, while together, Euro-Atlanticists and Russia, you are adopting these myths, despite the imperialist slaughter in Ukraine between you. Capitalist barbarism is not "made up" with distortions and lies. The truth will shine, the popular achievements of socialism are a beacon that illuminate the way for a world without exploitation, crises, wars and refugees.

13

Dec

2022

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Prospects for the two-State solution for Israel and Palestine (debate)

Mr President, over time the European Union and all Greek governments have stepped up economic, energy and military cooperation with Israel, to the detriment of the Palestinian people. This year, there are more than 141 victims of Israeli occupation violence. Among them underage girls, young boys, journalists. The atrocities of the Israeli army are taking place all around the world. Thousands of political prisoners are in appalling conditions with unacceptable "administrative detentions". Today's debate again reveals the hypocritical sensitivity of the European Union to instrumentalise "human rights" for the victims of war, occupation, raids; Because when these things happen in Palestine by the murderous state of Israel, the perpetrators are equated with the victims and you keep "equal distances". The only solution is the escalation of solidarity with the Palestinian people for the recognition of its own sovereign state on the border of 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital. We demand that the resolutions on the recognition of the Palestinian state adopted by the Member States, such as that of the Greek Parliament since 2015, enter into force.

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Nov

2022

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Borrowing strategy to finance NextGenerationEU (debate)

Madam President, NextGenerationEU, like the European Recovery Fund, is a memorandum. It distributes huge amounts of money to renewable energy and digital technology groups and mortgages workers' incomes for decades. The bourgeois governments of the European Union, however, do not find them in sharing. There are fierce arguments for the repayment of the loans of the program against the background of the imperialist war in Ukraine and its consequences in the face of the emerging capitalist crisis. So you are putting forward as a solution the so-called purchase of bonds by the people. You are essentially covering banks, groups and funds to speculate on the backs of the workers you are putting on them the burden of debts, new taxes on own resources – beyond inflation, accuracy, energy costs – and they cannot afford it. The peoples, therefore, must not compromise with barbarism in order to pay for the broken capitalist profitability of the antagonistic states and groups. On the road of the mass militant struggles that are taking place today, to escalate their struggle for modern needs in order for those who create it, i.e. the European Union and the monopolies, to pay for the crisis.

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Nov

2022

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Mr President, following the PEGA Committee's visit to Athens, we would like to point out that the wiretapping scandal is becoming more and more widespread. The facts confirm the KKE's position that an attempt is underway to cover up the truth about the bleak EU legislative framework that all governments and bourgeois parties have co-created. This framework allows for mass surveillance of everything and all kinds of files by states and monopolies. The whole confrontation between New Democracy, SYRIZA, PASOK-KINAL and the respective European political groups is conducted through clearing accounts of business interests and leaves this legislative framework untouched. The announcements of the Greek prime minister for a ban on software prescribe another deception operation, since then they will be legalized again, but with terms and conditions. The KKE has revealed and will continue to reveal the truth to the people. The reactionary framework of the European Union, the state and governments that shields the dictatorship of capital is not corrected, it is only overturned by popular intervention and action itself.

9

Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

Mr President, the established celebrations and empty declarations of solidarity after each summit cannot hide fierce competition within the European Union. Germany, France, Italy, Spain and others argue over prices, infrastructure, pipelines, storage and energy efficiency. At the same time, people make countless sacrifices, paying for the profitability of green groups and sanctions in the energy war with Russia. The people's problems, however, pre-exist the imperialist war, have been generated by the strategies of the green transition and the liberation of energy that the European Union, the governments and the parties have established to treasure the business groups. Energy poverty vouchers and baskets do not address the unbearable accuracy of electricity, fuel, food. The peoples in Greece, Belgium, France, Spain, leave behind EU false expectations, oppose the strategy of accuracy and impoverishment, reject the waiting attitude and today demand wage increases, collective labour agreements, cheap energy, abolition of taxes. No people's house should be left without electricity!

5

Oct

2022

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Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, the annexation of Ukrainian territories announced by President Putin adds more fuel to the fire of the imperialist war, as does US-NATO support, of course, for the reactionary Zelensky government with heavy weapons and other means. It signals a new tension between Euro-Atlanticism and the forming Eurasian bloc led by China and Russia, as well as competition within the Eurozone between Germany, France and Italy against the background of energy economic problems. The threats to each other's use of nuclear weapons, sabotage of pipelines and critical infrastructure are leading to incalculable consequences for the peoples of Russia and Ukraine, but also for the whole world, who are already paying the cost of the accuracy of energy poverty. In these conditions it is urgently necessary to disengage Greece from the war, the US-NATO plans, which multiply the dangers for our people. Stop now the sending of military material to Ukraine, the use of Greek territory and the country's infrastructure as a base of war. And of course the development of the independent struggle of the peoples in each country is therefore urgently needed today.

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Oct

2022

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Situation of Roma people living in settlements in the EU (debate)

Madam President, this report also makes known and recurring findings, descriptions of the problems that the Roma really face in all the Member States. The report, however, does not and cannot solve the problems it finds, but aims to re-serve the EU strategy implemented by the bourgeois governments, which consciously and over time preserves the miserable living conditions, paving the way for the action of circuits and demonizing the Roma for crime, while shifting state responsibility to various well-meaning and non-governmental organisations, exacerbating their impoverishment and hostage-taking. A way out cannot be given by the European Union and governments that, with their strategy, crush the workers' and people's rights as a whole. To break the vicious circle of ghettoisation once and for all, it is necessary to ensure permanent and stable work, modern housing, public health services and education, as well as respect for Roma culture and lifestyle. This is the way to their effective social integration against discrimination, against the pressing problems perpetuated by the system of exploitation.

14

Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, the President's speech was a war delirium. Why is it? Because the European monopolies, which make multifaceted use of the imperialist war and sanctions against Russia, are now taking a position on the "reconstruction" of Ukraine. The peoples, therefore, should not choose sides in the imperialist war, in the US-EU-NATO confrontation with Russia and China. And your European solution to energy costs is really blackmailing the people: Pay or freeze. But the spike in precision began long before the war. The reason is the EU's "green transition", energy liberalisation and delignification, which shield the profitability of the groups. And, of course, the fact that the energy giants will share their profits with the people is a mockery. The capitalist system you are defending today, in 2022, deprives even the elementary ones. It generates crises, wars, exploitation, refugees. The European Union is only getting worse. The people will give a solution! Claiming drastic price reductions and caps on fuel and energy, abolishing unfair taxes. Energy should be a social good and not a commodity, with the people owning the wealth and disengaging from the European Union.

13

Sep

2022

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Adequate minimum wages in the European Union (debate)

Mr President, in addition to the well-known crocodile tears about dignity and the ‘working poor’, the directive on the so-called ‘adequate wage’ – in practice – ‘sharpens the bottom’ of already low wages. For the Greek data, it recommends a salary of EUR 600; lower than the bottom. This is why it actually opens the appetite in capital for a reduction in wages and restores the possibility of sub-minimum wages for practical and part-time workers. And seafarers are not included, foreshadowing even lower wages at the will of shipowners. This is why the associations of industrialists and shipowners, New Democracy and SYRIZA are celebrating in Greece, which have demoralised collective agreements, abolished collective bargaining and set a minimum wage by law. But it is the great workers' struggles that are growing all over Europe that are showing the way, not the EU regulations that make poverty a habit. The workers have nothing to expect from the European Union of monopolies. Overcoming any waiting, organized, they must fight for wages and rights based on modern needs, for real measures of relief from the accuracy and cost of energy, based on their own needs and not on the dictates of their groups and governments.

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Sep

2022

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Consequences of drought, fire, and other extreme weather phenomena: increasing EU's efforts to fight climate change (debate)

Mr. President, Attica, Evros, Lesvos, Valia Calda. Hundreds of thousands of burnt acres of forest, national parks, Natura sites. Hundreds of destroyed homes, small businesses, injuries to firefighters and civilians. The European Union and the Greek governments, in recent years, invoke as a pretext the "climate crisis" and "extreme phenomena" as causes of major disasters. However, such climate change and extreme events have always existed. You seek to hide your heavy responsibilities, because the cause of the disasters is the absence of a comprehensive modernized fire protection plan focused on prevention. The commercialisation of land and the EU Forest Strategy. The EU's "green transition" strategy, which subsidizes groups for the deployment of RES, unregulated, in protected areas, but considers the staffing and equipment of civil protection to be an unbearable cost. The solution is not the various RescEU programmes that recycle the few firefighting equipment from country to country, but the elaboration of integrated protection plans, the staffing of services under the responsibility of the state, the provision of the necessary firefighting equipment and the removal of unacceptable terms and conditions for the compensation of those affected through the European Union Solidarity Fund.

12

Sep

2022

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Mr President, for over a month, the workers at the Malamatina factory in Thessaloniki have been waging a militant strike. They demand the immediate reinstatement of their 15 unjustly dismissed colleagues, against the detrimental changes in their employment status with individual contracts, with reductions in wages and rights, through which the company – whose 55% of debts were written off – further boosts its profits. Opposite them are the forces of repression, which on the side of the employers and on the order of the government try to intimidate them with wood and chemicals. They have the laws of the governments of New Democracy and SYRIZA against the right to strike, to restrict trade union action and collective agreements, which have been signed by the European Union. At their side are the workers of all Greece, in the fair struggle for safeguarding jobs, for work with rights, for wages at the level of modern needs, for collective agreements, for the overthrow of all anti-worker laws; That's why they endure. Victory to the strikers of Malamatina, against the employer terrorism and strike break, against the state repression!

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Jul

2022

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The relations of the Russian government and diplomatic network with parties of extremist, populist, anti-European and certain other European political parties in the context of the war (debate)

Madam President, the advisability of today's debate is obvious. You later cursed Putin, but in 1991 you applauded the Gorbachev-Yeltsin-Putin clique when they broke up the Soviet Union, the socialist state where people lived fraternally for decades. Until January, you praised the Putin government, the intervention in Kazakhstan against the great popular mobilizations. The Greek government awarded it last year. Only the KKE opposed it. Today's Russia, despite the pretexts for a battle between democracy and authoritarianism, is a capitalist state, just like you. Putin is one of you. The Euro-Atlantics and Russia are complicit in the abattoirs of war, the anti-people measures. Boost the anti-communism that feeds the far right, shielding the exploitative system you serve. The imperialist conflict in Ukraine is between two camps of robbers: US-NATO-EU-Ukrainian bourgeoisie against capitalist Russia for the control of pipelines and markets by the monopolies at the expense of the peoples. We are with the peoples and their independent struggle against the monopolies, against their alliances, for disengagement from the war massacre now.

5

Jul

2022

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EU initiatives to address the rising cost of living, including the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (debate)

Mr President, people's households are experiencing constant increases in energy, fuel, basic necessities and food. It is the result of the energy liberalisation strategy, the green transition, the green taxes magnified by the imperialist war in Ukraine, the sanctions on Russia and the countermeasures. Warnings of the impending difficult winter are accompanied by mockery measures for the people that are evaporated by accuracy and huge inflation. At the same time, the bourgeois governments and the European Union are subsidising the large energy and other groups from the heavy taxation of the people, the Recovery and Resilience Fund, shielding them from the possibility of the new crisis. They are preparing mammoth armament programmes paid for by the peoples in the context of the Euro-Atlantic confrontation with Russia and China. The working people must escalate the struggle against the imperialist war in Ukraine, demand the abolition of unfair taxes on fuel, energy and types of popular consumption, claim collective labour agreements, with increases based on modern needs, the planned utilization of all domestic energy sources, including lignite, with the abolition of unacceptable EU conditions and charges.

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Jun

2022

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Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court (debate)

Madam President, the abortion ban is a conservative, backward-looking measure and the consequences are heavier for grassroots women, those who lack the financial means to bypass legislative obstacles, travel abroad or choose private institutions. They therefore resort to practices that put their health, even their own lives, at great risk. Defending the right to abortion to stop an unwanted pregnancy, whatever the reason, is non-negotiable. However, it is not enough to lift legal prohibitions to ensure women's rights, as long as health and reproductive health are treated as a field of investment for groups by all bourgeois governments over time and in the US, instead of a right without terms and conditions. Today, therefore, it is imperative to escalate the people's struggle for an exclusively public and free health system, incompatible with capitalist profit, with services that will not be limited only to abortion, but will concern sexual education, family planning, antenatal control, pregnancy, childbirth. Rights that were enshrined in socialist countries and saved the lives of thousands of women when abortion was banned almost throughout capitalist Europe.

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Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

Madam President, the hypocrisy of the European Union, the USA, NATO and the Greek governments is enormous. They are cutting for the protection of the environment, while they are escalating the imperialist conflict with Russia in Ukraine, sending huge quantities of heavy weapons, missiles, threatening them and nuclear weapons with incalculable consequences. The reports of the Fit for 55 package prove that the goal of the "green transition" is to boost the profitability of European monopolies on the ground of sharpened competition with Russia, China, but also the United States and Britain. There is no hiding the unbearable consequences for the people with soaring costs of energy, food, popular consumption items, green pollution charges, mandatory and expensive purchases of green vehicles and houses. The barbaric exploitative system you are defending is neither humanized nor "greened". It treats the environment predatoryly for raw materials and as a dumpster of by-products of capitalist production. The only way out is centrally planned social production, which, free from the criterion of profit, private ownership of land, water, energy, natural resources, can protect the environment and focus on popular needs.

6

Jun

2022

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EU islands and cohesion policy (debate)

Mr President, the report and the so-called common strategy for the islands have nothing to do with the problems and anxieties of the islanders. It promotes the priorities of capital, the European Union and the bourgeois parties for the unpopular green digital transition, for the strengthening of energy, transport and tourism groups. It has turned tourism into a goldmine for big businessmen and a prison for workers, without hours, without rights, with degrading wages. It leaves the islanders exposed, without necessary state infrastructure, without civil protection, with minimal health services. They pay for expensive fuel and products, tickets that are increasing in groups that are subsidized with plenty of state money, without securing the necessary ferry connections. Workers must organize their struggle for collective labour agreements, with guaranteed insurance rights and hours, with wage increases based on the demands of class unions. Fight for frequent cheap ferry connections, all year round, with modern and safe ships, focusing on the needs of the islanders and not the profits of the shipowners.

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May

2022

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Minimum level of taxation for multinational groups (debate)

Madam President, this directive is a cover for legitimate tax avoidance by monopoly groups. It seeks a temporary compromise in the context of heightened antagonisms between the bourgeoisie and the monopolies affected by more favourable treatment by some states. It aims to strengthen the position of European monopolies vis-à-vis, in particular, the United States of America and China. In Greece, where employees are taxed 23% on income, the 15% tax rate for groups is a challenge. It concerns few groups and excludes shipowning capital that is voluntarily taxed by decisions of the Greek governments over time, while it itself breaks the record of profitability one after the other. Propaganda about fair taxation is a political fraud by the European Union, governments and bourgeois parties. In the unjust tax system of the capitalist economy, the people pay 95% and the groups 5%. The workers, therefore, must organize their struggle, demanding the taxation of big capital 45% on profits, the abolition of all tax exemptions, including shipowners, unfair indirect taxes and the establishment of a tax-free limit that meets the needs of the popular family.

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May

2022

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State of play of the EU-Moldova cooperation (debate)

Mr President, today's debate is part of the new phase of intensification of inter-imperialist competition. Next to Moldova, where hundreds of Russian soldiers are stationed, thousands are deployed through PESCO, Frontex and NATO formations. The war in Ukraine is escalating alarmingly. Senior U.S. military officials underline the possibility of major powers being involved, while the Russian Defense Minister is targeting shipments of war material. At the same time, the Greek government, with the support of the bourgeois parties, has turned the country into a NATO base. It brings as a matter of urgency the agreement to expand the US bases, leading to deeper involvement in the US-NATO plans against Russia and China, with "smooth" resources, markets and geopolitical benefits, which the Ukrainian and Russian people are currently paying with blood. In this clash of bandits, the peoples have only one way: the strengthening of the struggle against the participation of the country in the imperialist war, for disengagement from imperialist organizations such as NATO and the European Union, and from their plans, which target the peoples and giganticize the poverty, accuracy and insecurity faced by the peoples in all countries.

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May

2022

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The follow up of the Conference on the Future of Europe (debate)

Madam President, the "conference" is an operation to manipulate the just indignation of workers, young people in all Member States, but also to wash away the anti-people European Union of monopolies, imperialist interventions and wars, the timeless opponent of workers' interests. Irrespective of whether or not it marks a change in the Euro-Treaties, it cannot hide the great contradictions within the Union. Its proposals seek to fortify the anti-people European Union edifice; favour the so-called Europarties; set unacceptable electoral limits, altering election results; establish letter-post, online electoral processes; They are escalating the counterfeiting of 9 May, turning it from the day of the great anti-fascist victory of the peoples, apart from the so-called day of the European Union, into a single day of European elections. The European Union is not improving – it can only become more unpopular. The future of the peoples, therefore, is not built by falsified conferences on the minefield of serving capitalist profitability, but by strengthening the struggle in every country against the European Union for disengagement from the imperialist unions, with power and economy in the hands of the peoples, for the cooperation of the peoples, for the building of mutually beneficial relations.

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Apr

2022

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EU Protection of children and young people fleeing the war against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, Russia’s unacceptable invasion of Ukraine and the war – the result of competition with the US, NATO and the European Union – have led to the uprooting of millions, mostly women and children. The killing of civilians, whether in Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, is the most horrible aspect of the imperialist war. They must therefore be condemned universally and without selective sensitivities that lead to the acquittal of one or the other camp. The Communist Party of Greece stood by the Ukrainian refugees in our country. To take all the necessary measures, under the responsibility of the government, for hosting them under humane conditions, for their full health coverage, for the education of refugee children and for covering all their needs. We demand the reception and accommodation of all refugees from Ukraine, including Russian-speaking, foreign and migrant workers and students living in the country, we demand an asylum application procedure based on the Geneva Convention, we defend their rights to decent living and work. However, the distinctions made by the European Union and governments, such as the New Democracy government in Greece, between those persecuted by Ukraine and those in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya are unacceptable. Behind this double standards stance lies the quest for European business groups to find a cheap, easily adaptable workforce. They are accompanied by reactionary statements about "real, like-minded, Christian refugees", while your strategy for the rest of the refugees foresees either repression, pushbacks and deportations, Moria-type hellholes on Lesvos, or new superstructures-prisons, even for minors, even for unaccompanied children. All refugees are victims of imperialist wars. Solidarity with the uprooted, therefore, means securing their rights, but also the struggle of the peoples against the plans of their countries' involvement in the conflict. It means disengagement from imperialist alliances. It means strengthening the independent struggle for the workers' and people's interests against the system you serve, which breeds and nourishes war, refugees and exploitation.

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Apr

2022

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Mr President, Larco, a strategically important Greek company, the only one in Europe that produces ferronickel from privately owned deposits, in a country where 90% of the registered deposits of the European Union are located, is successively discredited by the Greek governments. While the use of nickel in electrification is crucial and its value has skyrocketed, the New Democracy government is seeking to clear it by throwing 1,300 workers and 300 families onto the road. They call it harmful, with the help of the European Union, which has deliberately imposed a fine of 5.5 million and a penalty of 4.5 million every six months, on the grounds that the State has not recovered any aid granted. A provocative decision, at a time when the European Union is approving billions of state aid to ensure the profitability of groups in the pandemic, which it is "regoldening" and now through the Recovery Fund. On April 6th, workers in Greece are on strike. They claim their modern rights. They demand measures to protect people's income from accuracy. They support the struggle of the workers of Larco and their families to ensure the operation of the business, the jobs and the rights of the workers, to cancel the unacceptable fines.

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Mar

2022

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The Power of the EU – Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy (debate)

Madam President, the peoples are groaning with the gigantic increases in energy, fuel, other goods that are affected by the imperialist war but have been launched before. It is the result of the liberalisation strategy and the energy stock market, the Recovery Fund and the green transition, green taxes. The expectations that the European Union and governments will solve the problem are therefore unfounded. The heavy taxation of the people is available in the arms race for Euro-NATO needs, for expensive investments in RES and US LNG through a new Fund and Eurobonds. You are sharpening antagonisms that led to the war with Russia, which turned the Ukrainian people into a punching bag of opposing powerful monopoly interests. Today, 23 years after the intervention that dissolved Yugoslavia, the working people escalate the struggle against the imperialist war in Ukraine, condemning the Russian invasion and the Euro-Atlantic encirclement. To demand the abolition of excise duties, of VAT on articles of popular consumption, to claim collective labour agreements with increases on the basis of modern needs.