We are supposed to have come out of the memorandums, but all the memorandum conquests of capital and the EU at the expense of the workers and the people are in place or are being upgraded. One of them was strengthened and modernized by a law passed with the votes of the ND, in the previous days.
The reason for the Hyperfund or Hellenic Holdings and Property Company, which was founded in 2016 at the request of creditors as a guarantee fund, in the context of the shameful third memorandum of the SYRIZA-ANEL government, with the vote of the ND, PASOK and Potami. The Mitsotakis government, even though we have allegedly come out of the memoranda, did not cut the provocative regulation that has been in effect since 2016, that is, the possibility of the European Commission and the European Stability Mechanism to appoint two of the five members to the Supervisory Board of the Superfund! Which in the context of the… “refining” of the euro-state was renamed the Corporate Governance Council. In fact, the remaining three members of the Council are appointed by the government, but with the agreement of the EU “lenders”. commitment to accountability for the selection of members in Brussels, but the ND voted against it. In any case, the Euro-Memorandum obedience of the bourgeois parties and governments is a given; any cries heard against… Schäuble are meaningless…
Two of the five members of the Superfund are appointed by Brussels, the remaining three are simply… approved by the EU
The new phase of the Superfund includes the absorption by it of the Financial Stability Fund and TAIPED, but also the imposition of a PPC model (they call it “modernization”) of the operating framework of eight of its subsidiary companies (OASA, ELTA, TIF-Helexpo, Organization of Central Markets and Fisheries, Central Market of Thessaloniki, GAIAOSE, Hellinikes Alykes, Corinth Canal). The responsible minister K. Hatzidakis and the other ND executives did not hide that their goal is to proceed with the privatization of the sectors covered by the specific subsidiaries. The “model” of PPC, which is part of the “liberation” of the energy market resulting in the take-off of tariffs, makes clear what they mean. BSE, big business and commission rub their hands.
In this context, it was decided to promote the complete abolition of collective agreements and the generalization of the flexibility of labor relations in the specific bodies. The government is promoting a harsh counterproductive package of measures for the workers in these subsidiaries, even hiding behind the “interest of the defenseless citizen”, as hypocritically said by … the superman of privatization Kostis Hatzidakis. It is clear that in urban transport, ELTA and other areas, fronts of confrontation will open in the next period.
The Minister of National Economy and Finance presented as a success the creation of a National Investment Fund, with money also coming from the return of the water supply companies EYDAP and EYATH to the State. In practice, of course, it probably leads to new forms of privatization, possibly through PPP, with the use of the state “piggy bank” by private companies in the water supply sector and beyond.
2024-08-02 11:48:59