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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, speaking from this tribune as a member of the only directly elected institution of the European Union, I wish to ask the Council representative and, more importantly, the Commission representative, the following:
Commissioner, do you believe that there is democracy in the European Union and in Greece? Is it a sign of democracy when the meeting of the Eurogroup is postponed because written statements from the parties that support the Papademos government have not yet been received, when those parties no longer represent the Greek people and the leaders of the parties being dissolved no longer represent the Greek people? Is it democracy, Commissioner, when Greek members of parliament are required to study the 750-page long memorandum which you imposed in the space of an afternoon, in a city flooded with thousands of workers and stifled by tear gas, resulting in a disastrous Memorandum for Greece?
Is there democracy in the European Union? Are you complying with EU legislation when you Commissioners, via the Troika, impose and demand the abolition of collective bargaining and the repeal of labour law and when Commissioner Andor, in reply to my question, tells me that Greece is a ‘special case’? Is it democracy when Greece is governed by the Troika and the various gauleiters of the International Monetary Fund and the Commission, with Greek ministers behaving like subordinates? Is it democracy when …"@en1
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