EU Commissioner follows up on Liberal Alliance's notification

13 January 2008-Liberal Alliance press release

Liberal Alliance wants to express its satisfaction regarding the expedient action of the European Commission to check on the Greek Government's decision to forbid any private investor to own more than 20% of any organization deemed of 'national strategic importance'.

The European Commission issued a letter with 17 points to the Greek Government questioning the legality of this decision. The letter accepts the arguments that Liberal Alliance stated in the notification of this matter to the Competition Commissioner, Mr Mc Creevy.

This was not surprising given that Liberal Alliance's position is based on the legal precedents of the European Court and particularly to the condemning decisions against Germany, Holland, Italy, Great Britain and Spain.

But despite the abundance of condemning legal decisions, the Greek Government deceives the Greek citizens, pretending that this serious letter from the Commission, is nothing more than ' usual process of exchanging views between the Greek ministries and the European Commission' and denying that it is not because of Liberal Alliance's actions.
The Greek Government shamelessly claims that since the German government take similar protectionist action, there should be no problem with the European Court confirming the the theory that Greece 's humiliation is one of the prime objectives of the Greek governement.

It is now becoming apparent that state control of the sectors of 'strategic importance' currently exercised by the governement of New Democracy and the malign groups that act inside these sectors is indeed of 'strategic importance' to themselves and themselves alone.
Why so? Because as the press has revealed that the German Authorities now investigate accusations of Siemens bribing of members of PASOK and New Democracy and officials of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE). Should this accusations proved to be true, it will explain to a great degree what is really at stake for the defenders of statism.

Liberal Alliance has already informed the Attorney of the Hellenic Supreme Court and passed every information it has on this matter and intend to issue further information to the European Commission.
Liberal Alliance intends to continue with every lawful and political mean to fight for the immediate and full privatization of all the State Organisations of Social Benefit as they are called, the opening of the markets which they control as monopolies, to Greek and foreign investors, and for the development of fair competition within a free economy.