The peoples of Europe must not pay for the war economy of high prices, “bloody”surpluses, and tax incursions.
The KKE Europarliamentary Group took the floor during the debate with the Minister of Finance and President of the Eurogroup, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, in the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. KKE MEP Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos stressed in his speech:
“Minister,
The peoples of Europe are being called upon to pay for:
- the war-induced price increases as a result of the dirty war waged by the U.S. and Israel against Iran, which the EU supports.
- the EU’s shift toward a war economy, and its support through prepaid loans and compensation for the reactionary Zelensky regime.
- the trade wars with China, as well as with the U.S., with tariffs being passed on to the peoples.
Meanwhile, the danger of a new economic crisis is just around the corner.
Of course, not everyone is losing. Energy groups, industrialists, supermarket owners and construction monopolies are raking in huge profits. In Greece, listed companies have set a historic record for profitability.
Shipowners are seeing freight rates skyrocket, while Greek seafarers are being sent in the war zone.
In response to the cost-of-living crisis choking ordinary people’s incomes, your government has handed out its well-known “passes”—a sham that essentially subsidizes high prices and the state’s tax incursions. In the first quarter of the year alone, you took over 4 billion euros from workers and the popular strata to meet the “bloody” surplus imposed by European rules”.
“What is your opinionregarding the just demands of workers calling for real relief measures, with caps on energy and fuel prices and the abolition of excise taxes? Abolition of VAT on basic consumer goods? Wage and pension increases, with the signing of satisfactory collective bargaining agreements?”
In his response, Mr. Pierrakakis defended the “bloody” surpluses resulting from the crushing of the people’s income, tax extortion, and the government’s mockery of measures. He claimed that things are moving in the right direction, as the people… “live better in relation to yesterday,” painting a rosy picture of the harsh reality faced by working people. He called for the relentless bleeding of the people through “bloody” surpluses, following the framework of strict fiscal discipline for the benefit of monopolies. Finally, he repeated the narrative that the New Democracy government and the EU are “reducing the debt and not passing the bill on to the next generation,” whose future, of course, has been mortgaged until 2070 through the Recovery and Resilience fund’s hyper-memorandum, with 13-hour workdays and starvation-wages, so that the EU’s war production can proceed and corporate profits can multiply.
May 5, 2026
THE KKE EUROPARLIAMENTARY GROUP