“Two foreigners in the same Synod” were Alexis Tsipras and Nikos Androulakis at the Synod of European Socialists.
As can be seen from the family photo where they stood in the opposite corners, “the ice did not break and they had no contact.
The two men had only a brief meeting at the airport, because they took the same flight. Mr. Tsipras has invited Mr. Androulakis for a meeting that will take place in the near future.
They also had a completely different agenda. The gathering of the progressive forces against austerity was proposed by the president of SYRIZA, who participates as an observer. The leader of KINAL demanded an arms embargo of all European forces in Turkey. Both had brief fours with new German Chancellor Olaf Solz.
In his statements, Alexis Tsipras spoke about the need for convergence of progressive forces in Europe.
“To revise the Stability Pact into a Pact for Sustainable Development and Social Convergence. To expand the criteria. “It is not enough today to talk about the debt and the deficit, which in relation to the percentage of 60% and 3% do not correspond to reality, but we must also talk about social criteria, inequalities, poverty, unemployment.” .
Mr Tsipras had contacts with, among others, the new German chancellor, Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
Nikos Androulakis also had a short four minutes with Olaf Solz, whom he congratulated for his election to the German Chancellery, and respectively Olaf Solz for his electoral victory in the recent internal party processes of KINAL.
At the Summit, Mr. Androulakis raised the issue of the arms embargo on Turkey.
“I will raise the issue of arms embargo on Turkey again. We can not talk about a common defense and security policy of the European Union and there are states that equip an international unrest, which violates the sovereign rights of neighboring countries, such as Greece and Cyprus and also creates too many problems from the South Caucasus to Middle East”.
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