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"Mr President, words are fine, but we need to move on to actions. We need to go and say everything that is heard here in this Chamber in your constituency in Thessalonika or in Macedonia or in Naoussa, which is a dead town: relocations have brought unemployment, they have brought poverty, they have brought social injustice and death. That is the truth.
IKEA opened in Athens and two and a half thousand small shops and handicrafts closed. How are they supposed to restructure? As you know, when big business arrives, small businesses drown. It is now a jungle; it is an ocean in which the big fish eats the small fish. Carrefour arrives with 20 000 square metres and all the small shops in the entire region close. So what are we to do there? What shall we do? How can we help? This is the reality. We have a major problem. We have unbridled capitalism, which invades life and buries the dreams of the weakest. Nothing is working today. We have approximately 20% unemployment in Macedonia, which was once the worksite of the whole of Europe. What are we to do there? How are we to save this world from want and poverty? Let us make a new army of
. That is the problem. That is where you need to intervene, that is where you need to help."@en1
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