EGAM congratulates
itself of the decision announced by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras during
his meeting with Benjamin Abtan, the President of EGAM, today in Athens : New
Democracy is in favor of a new composition of the Greek parliamentary delegation
to the Council of Europe without the neo-Nazis of Golden Dawn.
This position is the same as the one previously announced by the parties Pasok, Democratic Left and Syriza, and it means implies the exclusion of the neo-Nazis from the Council of Europe.
For EGAM, it is a
huge democratic victory, which brings a necessary and salutary political
clarification, which be heard in Greece and in the rest of Europe.
Greece is now offering an example to the whole Europe of a country faced
with the most violent social situation but whose leaders have decided to put
the defense of democracy as a top priority.
Last, this decision allows to break the dynamic of the neo-Nazi party
“Golden Dawn” in Greece and at the European level, and it reinforces the
European antiracist movement which expressed itself with strength in the
streets of Athens this Saturday, December 15th, gathering more than
10,000 people for a great antiracist march against neo-Nazism.
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Nice. We should not forget -in my opinion- that the policies of the 2 last decades implemented in Greece by the two big parties (New democracy and Pasok) and the neoliberalism attack (profits to corporations, losses to employees and more) are the main responsible for the razing of fascism in Greece. Neither that the status quo, unfortunately will prefer the raise of fascism than the raise of real alternatives that threats the current political and social system...
ReplyDeleteGolden Dawn is like cancer. Your view for dealing with it is to denounce it, treat its symptoms, and cover them up so they are not visible. My view is treat the causes to eradicate the illness. And the causes are very simple: It is the criminal incompetence of the state to protects its own citizens; it is extremist laws to give citizenship to illegal immigrants, including criminals and jihadists(who parade with the slogan "democracy on death row, islam is coming"), no questions asked. In no country in the world is
ReplyDeleteillegal entering a country a reason for gaining citizenship. It is also a gross indifference of the state to its onw citizens. Old ladies gatting robbed and beaten up and sent to the hospital with multiple fractures in broad daylight, or even killed is not something you can ask the people to 'get used to in the name of multiculturalism'. Nor is it normal and acceptable for Greece to have to accomodate huge numbers of illegal immigrants, while people like you sit on the sidelines and critisize the conditions provided to them. Last, you are asking the same scum politicians who brought the country to the current mess, in order to be "credible" with the lenders, to be downright fraudulent with their own people, even with state intervening to change existing PRIVATE contracts and agreements by law, with the effect of further fuelling the crisis. In such an environment rise of the extremes is inevitable. If you really want to combat the extremes, look at the causes, not the symptoms. Extremes thrive when moderates fail.