07/17/2024 | Press release | Archived content
17.7.2024
Question for written answer E-001373/2024
to the Commission
Rule 144
Kostas Papadakis (NI), Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos (NI)
The New Democracy government is moving full speed ahead with its dangerous plans to close mining company Larco and take jobs away following the rejection of the application for interim measures, which was submitted by workers who were asking to keep their jobs.
Larco is a strategically important business due to the high natural, material and technical value of its infrastructure and the fact that it is the only company in the EU with domestically owned nickel and cobalt deposits.
A premeditated crime for which New Democracy bears responsibility and which is taking place with the complicity of all previous governments (Syriza and Pasok), is being committed on the pretext that Larco is allegedly a financial drain on the Greek State. Everyone contributed to the process of discrediting and undermining the company's capabilities through the government's 'liquidation while in operation' plan.
In view of this, what is the Commission's position concerning:
Submitted: 17.7.2024