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"Mr President, I should like from this tribune to express my indignation and distress at the murder of a fifteen-year-old boy by a policeman in Athens. This incident was the cause of the events which have rocked Greece over recent days. Greece is in the midst of a social explosion with general unrest in numerous towns. The people in the streets, mainly students and pupils and the unemployed and underpaid, are voicing the crisis in a society which feels that it has no prospects. Anger, indignation and protest have met with explosive results. In the face of this situation, a weak outgoing government, the New Democracy government, has let things get out of control, with the result that there has been no state for days. The roots of these events are complicated and run deep: the outbreak of civil unrest is the result of the unceasing increase in inequality. It is the result of a neoliberal policy which is creating more and more poverty, marginalisation and exclusion, with the result that social cohesion is in jeopardy and we are heading towards extreme events such as those we are currently witnessing. In condemning violence, we must listen carefully to the protest being voiced in Greece, to which we must then give specific and honest answers."@en1
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