“The West can not stand weak” in the face of Putin’s “gloomy expansionist conception,” said Parliament Speaker Konstantinos Tassoulas, stressing that “sanctions must, at the cost of a hard-fought war.” THE invasion of Ukraine “It must become a huge mistake of Putin,” said Tassoulas, adding that “the West must crush Putin to make the war economically unbearable for him.” However, as he stressed, in addition to the economic sanctions, the accession process of the countries that have received candidate status without delays must proceed without delay, but also with practical evidence from them that they express and implement the necessary reforms.
A few days before the scheduled speech of Volodymyr Zelensky in the Greek Parliament, Konstantinos Tassoulas, speaking to Conference of Speakers of the Parliaments of the EU Member States in Sloveniareferred to the “unprovoked and barbaric Russian invasion of Ukraine”, an invasion that “challenges the whole post-war security architecture” that should lead Europe to new initiatives and guarantees of stability, security and prosperity.
“THE President Putin with a delay of 32 years challenges the European security architecture, challenges the national identity and self-determination of Ukraine in the name of the living space of its supposedly threatened country. “He characterizes as the ‘Russian world’ what he deems necessary as a living space, utilizing the gloomiest expansionist concept,” said the speaker of the Greek Parliament, referring to the possibility that the invasion of Ukraine would copy the open wound of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. “And what does President Putin have in store for Ukraine? “Is it something similar to Cyprus, where after the invasion of Turkey in 1974 there is a Turkish occupation army in the northern part of the island, despite the repeated UN resolutions to the contrary?”, Said Mr. Tassoulas and stressed that the sanctions against the Russian invasion in Ukraine, must have the cost of a strong war, the West must not be weak in imposing sanctions, “like those of the League of Nations in 1935, against dictator Mussolini, when he invaded and occupied Abyssinia unhindered, using even poison.”
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“The West, with all its weaknesses and mistakes, remains by far the hope of humanity for a free, democratic and prosperous life, against the real and not anachronistic threats of climate catastrophe and pandemics,” the Greek Parliament Speaker said. He added: “In order not to be as weak as we were then, sanctions must ultimately have the cost of a solid military coup, not like those of the League of Nations in 1935 against dictator Mussolini, when he invaded and occupied Abyssinia using even poisonous gases. In addition it should as Europe to significantly strengthen our geopolitical footprint, in addition to NATO, while also strengthening our defense spending. The “strategic compass” must become a “strategic destination”. It is no longer enough to know where you have to go, you have to get there immediately. The inviolability of borders is no longer a wish. “It is a strongly protected value, also in the eastern Mediterranean, where provocative and unilateral actions by Turkey against my country are now taking on the dimension not of a bilateral threat, but a threat to Europe.”
“The invasion of Ukraine must turn into a huge mistake by Putin. This is how it is already evolving “, said Konstantinos Tassoulas and added:” The West must support Ukraine, the Greek Prime Minister has already undertaken the commitment of my country to rebuild the bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol. The West must crush Putin to make the war economically unbearable for him. And it must also support Western societies from the economic effects of war, especially accuracy. Not with flyovers anymore, but with targeted economic measures. Populism should not flare up in the West because of food shortages and inaccuracies. “This kind of populism will function as Putin’s 5th phalanx!”
In the same framework of initiatives, Konstantinos Tassoulas underlined, the further progress of the accession of the countries of the western Balkans is included. “It is in the interest of all of us to proceed with the accession process of the countries that have received candidate status without delays, but also with practical evidence from the candidate countries that they express and implement the necessary reforms. “Greece attaches great importance to this accession and in fact this year, which chairs the South East European Cooperation Process, we are given even more opportunities to promote issues related to the harmonization of the European acquis in the candidate member states of the Western Balkans,” he said. Τασούλας.
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