What Lefteris spoke about.

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Mar

2023

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Data Act (debate)

Madam President, with the Data Act, industry monopolies will no longer only be able to record, store, analyse and exploit user data, personal or otherwise, as they have done so far, for example in Greece, thanks also to the relevant directive voted jointly by New Democracy, SYRIZA, PASOK and MERA25. Within the framework of the EU data market, European monopolies will be able to resell them to thir…

13

Mar

2023

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Mr President, we are living in Greece with the Tempi railway tragedy. Predicted crime with 57 dead. Hundreds of thousands of people and youth demand that the crime not be covered up, that the real culprits be punished. It wasn't a human error or a bad time. It was the result of the EU strategy of liberalising transport, cutting it up and handing it over to monopoly groups, with reduced staff, with…

15

Feb

2023

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The situation of human rights defenders in Eswatini, notably the murder of Thulani Maseko

Madam President, we unequivocally condemn the constant state repression, the murders - such as of Thulani Maseko, the abductions, torture and imprisonment against activists, members of trade and student unions by the autocratic Mswati regime. We express our solidarity with the communist party of Swaziland in particular, recognising its important contribution for the organisation of the struggle fo…

15

Feb

2023

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European Central Bank - annual report 2022 (debate)

Madam President, the report promotes the design of banking and business groups and the strategy of the European Union and the Central Bank leading to interest increases of up to 33%, the proliferation of bad loans and generalised auctions of popular property. This goal is served by the decision of the Supreme Court in Greece for an auction pogrom based on the bankruptcy law of the government of Ne…

15

Feb

2023

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The erosion of the rule of law in Greece: the wiretapping scandal and media freedom (topical debate)

Madam President, we are really witnessing a blanket confrontation and phony dilemmas over democracy and diversion. Because the bourgeois parties today aim to keep intact the EU regulations, directives, mechanisms that have co-formulated and voted and shielded the unacceptable anti-people framework against the so-called enemy people. By a 2021 regulation, spyware is considered normal in the Europea…

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Feb

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 an…

17

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…

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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 wit…

15

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, …

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 po…

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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 o…

9

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 everythin…

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 w…

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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 betwee…

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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 ac…

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…

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-mi…

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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 chan…

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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 – furthe…

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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 …

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 tha…

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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 pregna…

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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 pro…

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 p…

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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, whe…