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"Mr President, since Saturday 6 December, when we started to mourn the needless loss of a young student, the attention of Europe has been on Greece. The fatal bullet set off demonstrations by young people throughout the country which were unprecedented in Greece. Young people lost their temper and tried, in their own way, to tell us that they have no desire to live in a venal society and that they refuse to accept that knowledge is a commodity and that insecurity, competition and greed have no place in their vision of the future.
Let us be honest, what young people are contesting today is the sovereign model of inhumane development which deconstructs the welfare state, which turns the rule of law into a police state, which alienates, estranges and leads to mutual extermination. We must not be indifferent to and, more importantly, we must not underestimate the harrowing screams of our young people. The solution lies not in repression; it lies in a change of attitude, a change of policy. We owe it to the young generation; we owe it to the memory of Alexander, the boy who suffered this needless death."@en1
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