What Lefteris spoke about.

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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…

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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 t…

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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 wit…

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Apr

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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 se…

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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 u…

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Mar

2022

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The situation of journalists and human rights defenders in Mexico

Madam President, the European Union maintains strong economic relations with Mexico. EU governments hailed the so-called left-wing government that has implemented harsh anti-worker measures and escalated the crackdown on popular mobilizations. During the pandemic, the profits of the monopolies more than doubled, while inflation exceeded 13, consuming the crushed income of the popular majority. Tra…

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Mar

2022

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European Semester for economic policy coordination: annual sustainable growth survey 2022 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the annual sustainable growth strategy survey 2022 (debate)

Madam President, the imperialist war in Ukraine following Russia's invasion is raging. The Member States of the European Union have launched a gigantic arms race, sharpening the competition with Russia, which will be paid for by the people through Eurobonds, which feed the war industry and energy groups. People are already bearing the cost of intensifying competition. They pay for the Resilience F…

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Feb

2022

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Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer(debate)

Madam President, the European Union's 'cancer campaigns' remain an empty letter, as cancer patients are in an increasingly dramatic situation. Early diagnosis becomes impossible when an appointment with a doctor for an imaging test is expected to take up to four months or individuals are forced to pay heavily; when important diagnostic tests, such as the Pap test, are not covered by insurance fund…

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Jan

2022

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Digital Services Act (continuation of debate)

Madam President, the wishes to protect 'consumer rights' do not obscure the real aims of the regulation, namely the creation of more favourable conditions of profitability for European technology groups, in conditions of fierce competition with the United States of America, China, with monopolies of other powerful capitalist countries. Under the regulation, "providers" can broadcast even the most …

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Dec

2021

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The situation in Cuba, namely the cases of José Daniel Ferrer, Lady in White Aymara Nieto, Maykel Castillo, Luis Robles, Félix Navarro, Luis Manuel Otero, Reverend Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo, Andy Dunier García and Yunior García Aguilera

Mr President, today Parliament and the European Commission are continuing the imperialist intervention plan against Cuba developed by the United States, the Cuban mafia and few forces inside. The EU, with the useful tool of alleged human rights violations, openly sponsors well-known actors who spearheaded the destabilisation operation and have connections to the well-paid propaganda mechanism and …

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Nov

2021

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Mr President, it is 10 November and, since the beginning of the month, two workers have already lost their lives, one in the port of Cosco in Piraeus, the other, a distributor, in Thessaloniki. Every three days, a worker loses his life. These are not accidents, these are predetermined employer crimes, with the coverage of the anti-labour laws of the EU strategy, such as the Hatzidakis law, the New…

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Nov

2021

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The European Education Area: a shared holistic approach (debate)

Mr President, the priorities of the report are clear, an education-commodity to strengthen groups against competitors from the US and Britain, a student-client who buys as much as his pocket can, a blackmailed teacher to implement the anti-educational design. School, university, all fields of business activity, selling ephemeral training and chasing sponsorships, and families paying from their loo…

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Oct

2021

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The outcome of the Western Balkans summit (debate)

Mr President, developments in the Western Balkans are dangerous. Despite the competition within the European Union, the penetration of the region for trade corridors and energy transport routes is escalating, the US-NATO bases are being strengthened and competition is intensifying with Russia, which promotes the interests of its own monopolies and has a military presence, but also with China, whic…

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Oct

2021

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UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the UK (COP26) (debate)

Mr President, the debate ahead of COP26 is using environmental degradation as a pretext to promote the 'green' transition adopted by the EU, the US and China, despite their opposition to who will get a bigger slice of the pie. The green release of energy, the delignification and closure of hydroelectric projects, the monoculture of RES with the sole criterion of the profits of the groups, culminat…

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Oct

2021

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The state of play on the submitted RRF recovery plans awaiting approval (debate)

Mr President, a few months after the adoption of the "Greece 2.0" plan, workers have already gained bitter experience from the anti-people projections of the new Memorandum of Understanding of the European Union Recovery Fund. The Fund, voted for by New Democracy, SYRIZA, the other bourgeois parties of our country, distributes people's money as mammoth subsidies to the groups of green and digital …

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Oct

2021

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The future of EU-US relations (debate)

Mr President, the report reflects the fierce struggle between the United States and China for capitalist primacy, with the European Union seeking cooperation and limiting China's influence, the encirclement of Russia. It highlights the European Union-US competition for a greater share of the pie focused on green and digital growth, where the European Union aims to further boost the profitability o…

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Sep

2021

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Government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba

Madam President, once again, the European Union is issuing a provocative resolution against the people of Cuba, the Government and the Communist Party. The EU, to serve its own interests at the expense of the Cuban people, uses the intervention plan of the United States, the anti-Cuban mafia, and very few forces inside, which are magnified by a well-paid propaganda mechanism (media, social network…

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Sep

2021

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

Madam President, the crocodile tears about the situation of the Afghan people and especially of women, after the Taliban takeover, are not enough to extinguish the historical responsibilities of the European Union, NATO, the United States of America. In the 1980s, the then EEC and its member states supported and financed the ancestors of the obscurantist Taliban to overthrow the people's governmen…

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Sep

2021

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Natural disasters during the summer 2021 - Impacts of natural disasters in Europe due to climate change (debate)

Mr President, in Greece the people have faced major fires and floods that have caused loss of human lives and destroyed homes, small-scale farming and livestock infrastructure and hundreds of thousands of acres of forest land. It is appropriate to try to disorientate under the pretext of climate change in order to "oil out" the EU cost-benefit strategy implemented by all governments, as well as th…

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Sep

2021

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Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development (debate)

Madam President, this report shows that you are not concerned about the tragic working conditions on platforms but about the fact that the United States, America and China groups are taking the lion's share of the profits in the digital economy. This is why you are promoting the shame of so-called flexible working, with the aim of boosting the profitability of European groups. What needs to be gua…

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Jul

2021

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European Medicines Agency (continuation of debate)

Madam President, the evolution of the pandemic, the prevalence of mutations with possible consequences on the effectiveness of vaccines, combined with the low vaccination rate, the sanitary rubber protocols, which expose people to new risks in the interests of tourism and transport groups, confirm that the fight against COVID-19 is not only tackled with the necessary vaccination. The anti-people p…