EPP-DISY insist on imposition of the same policies

 

Statement of Neoklis Sylikiotis, Member of the Political Bureau and AKEL MEP

AKEL C.C.  Press Office, 13th February 2015, Nicosia

 

In its statement-decision issued on 12th February, the European People’s Party (EPP), to which the governing DISY Rally party is affiliated to and whose session was attended by President Anastasiades, sees economic growth and unemployment falling in the Greece of the Memorandum and insists on pursuing this policy, indeed characterizing it as an “accomplishment”.

This is a great provocation, not only for the Greek people who recently with their verdict condemned these very policies, but also for all the peoples who are under the yoke of a Memorandum. At a time when such kind of programs have forced brutal impoverishment, the increase in unemployment and underdevelopment, the EPP Group, but evidently DISY and the President of the Republic too, carry on implementing the same policies. Furthermore, the President of the European People’s Party Manfred Weber insists in his interventions in the European Parliament on the position that Greece’s current economic program must continue, questioning once again the democratic choice made by the Greek people.

The pressure felt by the government in recent days has forced it in the end not to openly support German Chancellor Merkel and Schaeuble. However, DISY’s real socio-economic philosophy and policy clearly cannot be hidden. The statements issued by the President of DISY and the Minister of Finance recently reveal that they anything but sincerely want to rupture the dogma of the Memoranda. Besides, there are many examples over the last two years in relation to the Cyprus Memorandum which prove that the DISY-Anastasiades government has gone far beyond even from the Troika’s most anti-social dictates.

AKEL supports the Greek government’s efforts to get rid of the Memoranda austerity policies, as well as every effort on both a European and domestic level that will lead to the rupture with the policies of impoverishment of the peoples to serve the interests of a handful of monopolies. Our struggles and initiatives, both in the European Parliament and in Cyprus, are towards this end.