 Ege, come to the podium. So good to be here. Thank you, Janis. As Janis said, I'm coming from close by, you know, across the shore. I was born in Izmir, Smyrna, and I was raised there. And I learned the meaning of the word echo in the great Ephesus Amphitheater. So this is how I grew up. That is why I know that for thousands of years on the shores of this sea, Mare Nostrum, our ancestors looked at the waves and tried to find out the meaning of truth, the meaning of right, the meaning of beautiful. Mostly the blood and the sparkles of the sea blended together. The good and the evil merging together. And among those who stare at Mediterranean, we are the descendants of those who decided that the North Star of humankind should be the determination to stand by the human dignity, regardless of the price. Not only because it is the right thing to do, but also because it makes us beautiful. We are the descendants of those who choose above everything else, standing together with friends for the dream of a just world. Many times, it wasn't because the final victory was certain, but there was this unmatched joy of standing for dignity. Also, there was the fact that the ruthless powers was too disgusting and too humiliating to side with. And once again, today, history asks us to make our stance clear. We must, we have multiple crises at hand. Medmen abducted the political establishment all around the world. Refugees are pushed back to the sea to their death. Entire nations are fleeing for their lives. They are fleeing to the West. Distarvation, and we know this for certain now, is here to stay. The sea is boiling, and the air is burning. Fascism this time reappears, not in military boots and with a sulking face, but with funny blonde hair and with an entitled grin. The banality of evil which Hannah Arendt once mentioned is now transformed into evil of banality. And most painful of it all is that we are every day asked to develop a numbness while watching these things happen. The world weighs heavy, and this is because the planet is about to give birth to the new. The old is long dead, and the birth will be happening sooner than we expected. Thus, the pain and all this discomposure. Amidst this madness, there are many who ask for hope. And I've met many people throughout the last years, all around Europe, United States, Australia, and several other places who ask for hope. As you can see, I have curly hair. So I was playing the role of Cassandra for the last five years before the pandemic for four years. In 2016, I started talking to the Europeans, telling them right wing populism, or now we call it fascism, I call it fascism, is not specific to those crazy countries like Italy, India, or Turkey. It is a global phenomenon, and it is coming for them too. In 2016, Trump was just elected, and Americans really believe that they can get rid of him in one year, and they wouldn't ever hear of him again. 2016, Britain voted for Brexit, and there were many, many people that really believed that Brexit wouldn't happen even though it was voted for. French people did not think that Le Pen would be a serious rival to Macron. And people thought that we could get rid of Orban and several other right wing populist leaders with fascist intentions. I told them that democracy in its current form is dead, it is only the theatrics of itself. Because if there is no social justice, the fundamental promise of democracy is invalid. The fundamental contract of capitalism is in contradiction with the fundamental promise of democracy, which is equality. At the time, and there still is, there still are, many people who think that we can get rid of this madness that we either call right wing populism or fascism, by just fixing a few things, by supporting the centrist governments. No, it won't be like that because fascism is embedded in this neoliberal system, and it's going to be more and more clear as the system crumbles. The real face of this understanding of the world and understanding of politics will become more and more apparent. I told several audiences about this fact, and I told them that this is a global phenomenon, this is a global problem. I was waiting for them, I was expecting them, to ask me, so what do we do together? Because my reason to make all these speeches was to call them for solidarity, for international solidarity. But instead, what I got was this question. So where is hope? Hope is an inconsequential word. If there are among you who ask this question, I tell especially to them that hope is too fragile a word for our times. Because if I ask you this question, these two questions, you'll understand why I'm saying about these things about hope. What if there is hope? What would you make do differently tomorrow? Or what if there is no hope? What would it change in your political actions there tomorrow? It doesn't really change anything. And this hope idea and waiting for hope and asking for hope takes our agency away, it steals our agency as political actors. It turns us to a congregation of sheep who that are waiting for light, a divine light. And also we have to be careful about this hope. I'm sure you are people who are talking about politics to those who are not on the left, or who are not supporting this party. And I'm sure that they are asking you for hope as well. So I am telling you to tell them actually that hope is already bought by free market economy. Take a walk on any commercial street in Europe. You're going to see ads with plastered smiles, with happy people saying that buy a t-shirt, change the world. Buy this and that and you're going to become the hope. We are the hope says many, many green energy moguls or multinational companies. Capitalism is already exploiting and capitalizing the anxiety of end times. And it is also producing gurus in Ted speeches or several other places talking about the hope. Big business is recruiting young people with serious concerns telling them that they are going to do good jobs. They're going to do responsible business. And that is where the hope is. Capitalism is trying to deceive us into believing that the system can fix itself without any rupture, without us. Greece, like any other Mediterranean country right now, just like Turkey, is very busy with itself. You have a lot on your plate. You are trying to survive every day and there are refugees coming and there is Mr. Michatakis. There is this and that. And my country as you know is struggling with a lot. When you're struggling with so many things, it might feel like international solidarity is an abstract concept. It doesn't help your daily life. But I do think that international solidarity it gives you a solid reason to think that you're not alone. This is very important. But also it is the logical thing to do. When I was talking about fascism being a global phenomenon, I was in philosophizing on it. It is in front of our eyes. They are in solidarity. Farage in solidarity with Putin, Trump. The others are coming together. They are getting on really well. They are in real solidarity. The ones who are not cooperating enough, I think, is us. The progressives of the world. Why is that so? Do you think we are not the hope? We're not hopeful enough? Let's say that there is no hope. There is no hope from this day on. And I'd say that we don't need hope. That's not our business. Our business is with the word determination and with the word faith. There is no hope. There is me, Yanis, Jeremy. Deal with it. There is you and me. But we were. But we were. We are. And we will together be. Because, believe me, you might not feel that we are not, we are not, you might feel that we are not many. But I tell you, we are enough. We are enough. And I believe in you. Thank you very much.