What Emmanouil spoke about.

Madam President, a united Europe was created in the ashes of inhuman extremism, the extremism perpetrated by the Holocaust of the Jews inside Europe and which threatened and enslaved states outside it. At the time, many European powers opted for trade instead of early intervention. They chose quiet instead of human life. They chose the policy of appeasement instead of dealing with the monster. So I ask you: Is Turkey or is it not an extremist state? We seem to have a Europe that forgot the lessons it learned in the Second World War, that forgot history and is ready to relive it. According to the prevailing European mentality, Europe would not hesitate to tell Hitler and the Jews to solve the differences between them, as it says more or less to the Greeks and Cypriots who face daily Turkish crime. The policy of equal distances is not just a disgrace, it is a bomb in the foundations of Europe. (Applause)

Mr President, first of all we completely disagree with the use of the name of our Macedonia by Skopje. For us, the debate on this report ends here. The fact that the Skopje call themselves Macedonians is the definition of historical distortion, a distortion that insults every day all Greek citizens and especially the Greeks of our Macedonia. On the basis of the despicable agreement signed by the previous Greek government, which unfortunately the current Greek government adheres to, we lose internationally the right to our name, which is also our soul. For us, as our President, Kyriakos Velopoulos, has stressed, Skopje is prohibited from using the sacred name of our Macedonia in any way. And because this report essentially calls for Skopje's accession to the European Union, we say that Skopje will not enter the European Union unless it is renamed Skopje or Vardarska or anything else that does not offend our history. Therefore, being fully aware of our historical responsibility, we are voting against this report and I invite and invite the other Greek MEPs to do the same.

Madam President, speaking of the common defence policy, there is Joint European Resolution 944 of 2008 against the export of arms to states for internal repression, regional conflicts, but also attacks. In the two-year report of Operation Peace, six cargo ships bound for Libya refused control; All six were Turkish. Turkey invaded Cyprus and was condemned by the UN with decisions enforceable by Europe. After Varosha, the European Parliament called for severe sanctions; sanctions that we have never seen. On the other hand, Italy and Spain accounted for 43% of Turkish arms imports over the past decade. The highlight, of course, is the recent Spanish-Turkish agreement. In 2018 alone, Germany exported 240 million pieces of weapons to Turkey, which also expects five Italian anti-submarine warfare aircraft, a Spanish amphibious assault ship and six German submarines. Obviously, these weapons are intended for use against Greece and Cyprus. How ironic, then, is the debate on a common European defence and the preoccupation with the Ukrainian issue, when the complicity of many here in Turkish crimes is proven?

Mr President, speaking today of our primary sector, we should stop talking about what our farmers should do in order for the Commission to support them and start talking about what the Commission should do in order to support our farmers effectively. In recent years, a disastrous policy has been implemented that has imposed on our producers a series of irrational regulations that have pushed up production costs and, at the same time, dramatically increased imports of agricultural products from third countries. We want to eat olives from Kalamata and not from South Africa, and tomatoes from Crete and not from Turkey. To this end, we have three perfectly workable proposals. Firstly, we call for increased aid and accessibility to our producers; secondly, we call for increased controls on imported agricultural products for pesticide residues and other chemicals that poison European consumers; and thirdly, we call for increased tariffs on imported agricultural products in order to tackle unfair competition against Greeks.

Madam President, it is well known that Turkey is the country that poured oil on the fire in the Middle East. It is the country that has tried in every way to hit Greece even by arming the illegal immigrants. It is therefore hypocritical and outrageous to see the European Union ready to give more money to Turkey, when we know very well that the euros that Erdogan takes turns them into weapons aimed at Greek soldiers. That is why we have two concrete proposals: firstly, that all funding to Turkey be apparently cut off and, secondly, that this money be given to support the Greek port police and the Greek border guards, who guard Thermopylae day and night protecting the Greek and European borders. In closing, I want to say that it should finally be taken for granted that any boat that crosses the Greek border illegally will return to the coast from which it started with its occupants.