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"Mr President, the Greek Presidency has indeed dealt with some serious issues.
On 17 February, it was declared that the problem with Iraq was its disarmament, and this provoked Mr Bush's congratulations. The disagreement with the USA was not over whether violence should be used, but when. Besides, Greece and other Member States did not articulate a single word of criticism of the Anglo-American invasion; on the contrary, they helped it in any way they could. The declaration by the Presidency on 16 April legitimises the attack after the event, acknowledges the sovereignty of the attackers in Iraq and gives the UN the role of mediator in the distribution of the booty. So what if no weapons of mass destruction were found. So what if American officials are saying there were none. If the facts prove you wrong, too bad for the facts.
Another of your great achievements was that the European Union swallowed up nine-and-a-half new countries. I say nine-and-a-half because Cyprus is joining as a divided country, but that is an insignificant detail, which we should not allow to overshadow the glory of Great Europe. Seriously, what is the European Union doing to oust the Turkish occupying army from Cyprus?
As for your policy in the Balkans, what do you have to say about the subsidised relocation of companies such as SISER-PALCO, which leave thousands of unemployed in Greece and elsewhere?
Nor has it gone unnoticed that your policy has forced hundreds of thousands of angry workers on to the streets, today in France, the other day in Austria, before then in Greece, in almost every country of the European Union. This is their response to the attack on all the rights the working classes have acquired over the last 100 years.
It would be an oversight on my part not to refer to the farce of the Convention, with the careful election of its members so as to drown any voice of opposition to the European Union, which the President of the Convention is openly leading by the hand. The rape of democracy has created a freak which is redistributing power to the powerful and laying the foundations for the militarisation of the Union.
The MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece condemn, together with the thousands of protestors who will descend on Thessaloniki in two weeks' time, the policies of the European Union, which are becoming more and more dangerous for the security and standard of living of the peoples and which the Greek Presidency has served in the best possible way. However much of a fiesta they become, however many repressive measures are taken to protect the leaders from the love of the crowd, however far from the city the summit is held, the thunderous voice of protest will not be muzzled, the resistance of the gathering anti-imperialist, anti-monopolistic forces will not be repressed."@en1
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