The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos presented before the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) in Strasbourg yesterday (14 April 2014) the basic legislative achievements to date of the Greek Presidency of the Council of the EU. 

 

The minister said: “The Greek Presidency, presenting its achievements, is contributing to the new European narrative, to the new proposal for a Europe that is not a Europe of austerity and unemployment, but can be a Europe of growth, of employment; a Europe that gives prospects to its citizens. This has been our pursuit from the very outset. So you will allow me to point out the basic legislative successes of the Presidency, which are successes, in the final analysis, of the European Parliament, as co-legislator, given that all of this legislation was the subject of important Trilogues.”

 

Read below the full speech of DPM & FM Venizelos.