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Whilethe EU celebrates the 10thanniversary of the Lisbon Treaty and the EU Charter of FundamentalRights, the people not only have no reason to celebrate but theydraw valuable conclusions for the anti-people EU one-way street thathas been built at their expense. The discussions regarding the 10thanniversary of these reactionary treaties do not focus in the pastbut mainly towards an even more reactionary future that they areplanning for the people.

Theexperience of the people in the last 10 years totally vindicates thepredictions and the substantiated critique of the KKE, which pointedout in time that the Lisbon Treaty would strengthen even further theanti-people and reactionary nature of the EU against them. The CommomDefense Policy, the enhanced military co-operation (PESCO), the newintervention funds strengthened the militarization of the EU and theaggression of european monopolies in their fierce confrontation withthe other imperialist centers and powers. This is evidenced by the EUimperialist interventions, all these years, for the interests of theEU business groups, in Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Mali, in CentralAfrical Republic, in the broader region of SE Mediterranean andNorthern Africa.

Thepolicy of the EU and its economic military relations with Turkeyreinforce Turkish aggression, as it is expressed by the dangeroussituation that has been formed for the people in the Aegean and EastMediterranean, with the repeated violations and provocations in theAegean, the transgression of the Cypriot EEZ and the maintenance ofoccupation in Cyprus.

Atthe same time, the Treaty of Lisbon equipped the EU and thegovernments with new, more barbaric means and mechanisms of promotionof the anti-people policy: State budget control, the EU Semester andlong-term memorandums, reforms support programme, enhancedsurveillance and mandatory cutters of social spending for theslashing of wages and pensions. It enlarged the existing ones andcreated new mechanisms of repression (Europolice, European Border andCoastal Guard, EU prosecutor, etc), made even more stifling therestriction of people's freedoms and rights by multiplying of bodiesand tools of electronic profiling, strengthening of anti-communismand persecutions against Communist Parties. It transformed theMediterranean into a watery grave for thousands of displaced refugeesand immigrants and its member-states, especially Greece, intocontentration camps and mass entrapment of inhumane conditions.

Inall its member-states, the EU and the governments demolish workers'rights, public Social Security and Welfare, every social right suchas free public Education and Health. Basic social goods and services(Energy, Transporation, Communications) are converted into expensivecommodities and handed over to monopolies.

Theeuro-treaties are nothing but shackles, with which the EU and thegovernments chain the working people to the chariot of the capital'sinterests. The growing mistrust towards the EU [] can strengthen,deepen and target its very nature as a union of capital that cannotbe improved and become pro-people.

Whenthe people decide, they have the power to free themselves from thetyranny of the monopolies, with disengagement from the alliances,such as EU and NATO, taking the power and the economy in their ownhands, in order to buld another Europe of peace, friendship, for themutually beneficial cooperation of the people, a Europe of people'sprogress and prosperity, of socialism.

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KKE on Lisbon Treaty's 10th anniversary: "The people of Europe have no reason to celebrate" - In Defense of Communism