Criticizing the government for its stance on Greek-Turkish relations, PASOK’s Political Planning Officer and former minister Anna Diamantopoulou, expressed her belief that the lifting of the casus belli by Turkey is not important in itself.

“It is not important in itself (lifting the casus belli). They will join the Eurodefence and take out weapons, and we won’t have the casus belli;)” Ms Diamantopoulou said, speaking to OPEN.

The former minister criticized the government’s position that the door to Eurodefense would only open for Turkey by lifting the casus belli. “So Turkey will come in, be funded to produce weapons while threatening an EU country, without us getting anything?” he said, adding that Athens should have demands from Europe, such as guaranteeing our borders.

At the same time, he criticized both Europe, which talks about eurodefense referring only to armaments, and the prime minister, saying that the Greek position on the lifting of the casus belli was “formulated in an announcement in a broadcast without even a decision of the cabinet.”

For tenure in the public sector:

Ms Diamantopoulou expressed reservations about removing tenure in the civil service, saying there was a risk of an administration with contract workers, where the ruler of the day could cut their contracts, leaving the civil service without continuity.

“No to modernity that has insolvency, that the problem is that no one is enforcing the laws, as both the Constitution and the Public Service Code provide for 23 cases of disciplinary offences.