Two days ago, on September the 4th, I, along with fellow SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance – GUE/NGL MEP Petros Kokkalis, tabled an amendment, on the budget of the EMCDDA (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction), in the LIBE Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

The EMCDDA’s role in the fight against …

At yesterday’s meeting of the Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), of which I am a member, Mr. Alexis Goosdeel, director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), presented the organization’s mission and activities.

In my address I thanked the Centre’s leadership and …

With every passing day, we grow more and more amazed at just how regressive and backwards the migrant policies of the Right, the policies of the Greek Government, are. To us, the recent decisions of KYSEA (the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defence) were the cause of not just surprise, but …

For as long as the great powers of our time espouse war and interventionism, the problem of refugee flows will only grow more serious.

If the EU’s stance on accepting and providing relief to those thousands of innocent souls within its borders, does not change immediately, in a coordinated manner, the Mediterranean is …