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"Madam President, in 2001 on the eve of joining the euro, the Greek Prime Minister said: ‘Thankfully Greece will finally be at the heart of Europe. We will finally have greater prosperity. We will finally have greater stability. We will finally have greater ability to live our lives in prosperity’. Well face that with what the Greeks are facing today: Greek unemployment at nearly 25%; youth unemployment at 52%; the numbers of Greek young people who have left their country at 200 000; suicides since the crash at 6 000 people; the money spent on austerity – over EUR 40 billion – and every month over the next few months Greeks will have to find five billion to pay for those people who are controlling their country: the ECB and the Troika.
Is that the prosperity, the growth and the great future for Greece that was pronounced in 2001? No. But what you did have during the times of the crash was a man here in this Chamber placing his arm around the Greek Prime Minister at the time, when the people of Greece had said do not give us the chance of austerity, and I am reminded of the line from Caesar to Brutus: ‘Tu quoque, mi fili’ – ‘And also you, my friend’.
Because at the moment when that arm was placed around the Greek Prime Minister at the time of the new government and after a referendum that said we did not want that austerity, what you allowed was the arm to embrace you and the slow knife and dagger of the EU’s austerity programme slice itself into the heart of the Greek people.
And whilst there are Members here from Greece from the EPP and the Socialists who spout solidarity, who believe that they want care for those Greek people. Well yes, it is fine for you with your champagne lifestyles, but bear in mind the families who have to suffer the deaths of the 6 000 members of their families who have committed suicide.
Greece is not getting any better, because we have already seen after five years the economy shrink by 27%. But there is hope for the Greek people. As Mr Pittella said, yes, in the United Kingdom we are hosting our referendum to leave the European Union. Our growth has been better, our job opportunities better, because we are not tied to the euro. We do not have the ECB telling us what to do. We do not have control by the IMF, but believe me, to those Socialists who vote to stay in the EU, that will happen to you, too.
To the Greek people, they say the bankers will leave, the businesses will leave, the money will leave your country. I am telling you, the people of Europe will come to your country with freedom, prosperity and arms open wide when you set yourselves free by leaving the European Union too, like Britain will do on 23 June."@en1
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