«The issue of the ongoing decline in household income at the same time that corporate profits are being boosted» This was highlighted by the KKE’s European Parliamentary Group in a question submitted to the European Commission by the Party’s MEP, Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos.
In response to the question, according to a related briefing, L. Nikolaou-Alavanos notes the following:
«According to the latest Eurostat data, it is evident that low-income wage earners suffer losses 3 to 6 times greater than those with higher incomes in at least half of the. Greece, in fact, ranks second, with losses of -12% for the lowest income earners.”.
All the data also confirm that during exactly the same period, a handful of business groups and their owners multiplied their profits in the midst of the pandemic.
Throughout the period under review, governments and the EU continued to promote anti-popular measures and mechanisms targeting the working class, with the aim of boosting the profitability of capital by any means necessary.’.
«Based on these figures from the previous period and taking into account that the pandemic has accelerated the onset of a deep capitalist crisis, the European Commission is asked:
–What is your position on the fact that the EU is once again providing massive funds to monopolistic conglomerates through the ratification of the Recovery Fund and the new MFF for 2021–2027, while imposing new anti-people taxes and anti-labor measures on the backs of workers—measures that are mathematically certain to lead to the same and even worse consequences for the working and popular classes, just as has happened both recently and in all the years past?;
–Its position on the demands: To compensate for losses and substantially increase wages, pensions, and, more generally, the income of workers, the self-employed, and small-scale farmers, to repeal anti-people measures that have increased direct and indirect taxation, to support furloughed workers, laid-off workers, and the unemployed; for the funding of public health care systems; and for the mass hiring of permanent medical and nursing staff?» The KKE MEP concluded his question.
