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"Mr President, I have to admit that today’s debate perfectly mirrors our contradictions and our powerlessness. On the one hand, I note that the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament has condemned a pension reform that it has just applauded in a similar manner in Italy. It is not clear how a measure that is commendable for one country can be negative for another.
On the other hand, governments asking Greece to show proof of its virtue and of its cuts in public expenditure are also effectively forcing it to buy military hardware, thus exponentially increasing that same public expenditure. I find this an enormous contradiction. Who is the true victim of such a contradiction? Many say it is the Greek people. However, there is another victim, and that is Europe.
I think you will all have seen the pictures of the Greek Parliament besieged in the midst of burning buildings, among which European flags with a Nazi swastika in the middle could be seen. Be careful, therefore, because the true victim of this crisis of democracy is precisely a democratic process such as our own, which – despite the fact that it acts in the interests of European citizens and guarantees peace and growth – is perceived today as being totally evil.
We must take action. Mr President, I beg you to go to Athens to take the voice of the European Parliament to the Greek Parliament, which is being besieged against any democratic logic. I would like to remind everyone that our true objective is to ensure peace and growth for all."@en1
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