SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance took a position on the Evros fence and the amendment voted in the European Parliament.

“The New Democracy hides the truth behind its gaudy celebrations and cultivates false and misleading impressions, for reasons of cheap pre-election vote-hunting” he emphasizes.

“The truth is that the European People’s Party, in collaboration with the anti-European far right, tried to pass an amendment referring more generally to funding of ‘infrastructure’ for immigration in the framework of the Budget Guidelines Resolution. The result was to split the European Parliament and to vote against the Resolution in its entirety, for the first time in many years, by 210 in favor, 321 against and 105 abstentions.Now the European Parliament has no place on the direction of the budget as part of its negotiation with the European Council and the Committee and therefore cannot claim dynamically and organized, not only more funds for social policy, cohesion, common agricultural policy, etc., but also funds for dealing with the challenges of the refugee/immigrant”, notes Koumoundourou.

“The ND, therefore, in order to create the image that it “neutralized” the falsely called “Papadimoulis amendment”, which was in fact an amendment of the overwhelming majority of the European Parliament, is sacrificing national interests for more European funds and a strong European Parliament”.

“We are waiting with interest from Mr. Mitsotakis to pass the positions of the New Democracy for community co-financing of the fences in the European Council and from Mr. Schinas on the instructions of Mr. Mitsotakis to achieve exactly the same in the Commission…” he concludes the official opposition.