Evangelos Venizelos made an intervention for today through the retrospective of 50 years of post-colonization, which he characterized as the “best period since the establishment of the Greek state”, at the event “The curve of post-colonization in Thessaloniki”.
In his speech, Mr. Venizelos pointed out that the major issues of our time, which the post-colonial period highlights, are not disconnected from each other, but are fully connected to internal, regional and international developments, “the international and domestic milestones” that they preceded, and contributed to the formation of the physiognomy of the modern Greek state.
A few days before the American elections and the arrival of the Turkish foreign minister in Athens, Mr. Venizelos noted that “society must be aware of the historical conditions that continue to influence geostrategy and government choices.”
“Maybe, all that we are discussing”, he said, “the delimitation of the maritime zones, the extent of the territorial waters, the issues concerning the air space, all those concerning the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, the regional situation in the Mediterranean, in The Balkans, in the large coastal region, in which, let’s say by historical award, we are a member, are they not sending us too close to the great demands of the beginning of the Revolution? When Alexander the Black-corded said to Metternich, that you know, we need a new dynamic all-living state, however small, which together with the declining Ottoman Empire will stop the descent of Russia into the warm seas, in the Mediterranean? Wasn’t this the reasoning behind the joint accession of Greece and Turkey to NATO in 1952? Is this not now the great strategic stake of the West in relation to the war in Ukraine, even in relation to the acute crisis in the Middle East? Is what is happening in the Middle East not connected to the so important for us in the Treaty of Lausanne, which we think concerns Greek-Turkish relations closely, while it concerns everything related to Syria, to Iraq, to the infamous Kurdish regions, to Libya , with anything that can be put on the table of a modern discussion, in view of the American presidential elections next Tuesday, which is the decisive moment for the strategic existence of the West?”.
The speaker at the event was the mayor of Thessaloniki, Stelios Angeloudis, who emphasized that in these “50 years of the longest period of political normality in the history of the Greek state” we must be ready to make the assessment and comparisons with what happened in other cities and countries and added:
A greeting was delivered by the artistic director of the KTBE, Asteris Peltekis, who referred to the course of the KTBE, while the following discussion was attended by Kostas Kostis, professor of History at EKPA, director of MIET, Georgia Panagiotidou, Dr. of Political Science, the author Giorgos Skabardonis and Yiannis Karatzoglou, Dr. Political Science – author.
The Metropolitan of Thessaloniki Philotheos attended the event and it was attended by persons from all political spheres, among them, the secretary of the ND Committee of Ministers and former minister Stavros Kalafatis, the ND MPs Anna Efthymiou, Stratos Simopoulos, the former minister Dimitris Kairidis, the PASOK member of parliament, Apostolos Panas, member of parliament Michalis Hourdakis, Roula Pateraki, the president of the Thessaloniki Bar Association Dimitris Finokaliotis, the president of KEDE Lazaros Kyrizoglou, the president of PED Central Macedonia Ignatios Kaitezidis, the mayor of Neapolis Sykeon, Simos Daniilidis, the the mayor of Thermi, Theodoros Papadopoulos, the member of the PASOK-KINAL Coordination Political Center, Thanasis Glavinas, the secretaries of PASOK A’ and B’ Thessaloniki Evryviadis Eleftheriadis and Konstantinos Kokkolakis, respectively, the former MP Vassilis Geranidis, Christos Papastergiou, Giorgos Tanimanidis, the former minister Giorgos Paschalidis, the president of the municipal council of Thessaloniki Spyros Vougias, the president of SBE Loukia Sarantis, deputy mayors of the municipality of Thessaloniki, the rectors of AUTH, PAMAK and International University, Charalambos Feidas, Stelios Katranidis, and Stamatis Angelopoulos, the director of office of the president of PASOK, Dimitris Sarrigiannis, the deputy regional governor Viki Chatzivasileiou, the mayor of Neapolis Sykeon, Simos Danielidis, the mayor of Thermis Theodoros Papadopoulos, PASOK officials, the businessman Stavros Andreadis.
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