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Below all the soundbites in English
Kouloglou
There must be laws for protecting the whistleblowers. To facilitate people who have secrets but are afraid to talk in order to avoid suffering what the previous whistleblowers suffered. Europe, the EU should take such initiatives. In a time when populism is gaining ground, where citizens feel unsafe and unprotected, enraged by cleptocracy, by the 1% getting continuously richer at the expense of the 99%. It is essential that the European Parliament votes for protection measures for whistleblowers. Otherwise we will have many little Donald Trumps, throughout Europe. And we do not protect only the whistleblowers. By protecting whistleblowers we will in fact protect our society, democracy, our children and their future, ourselves.

Only from the Falciani list that has to do with only to one bank, the American state gained 1.9 billion dollars by imposing a fine on only one bank HSBC. After investigation on the list, France, Spain, Great Britain and I hope Greece have earned at least half a billion euros.

Sugarman
I think people should realise that literally people have gotten away with murder. When you hear about the suicide rates in places like Greece, when you hear about the fact that something like 10% of the Greek population goes to bed starving, this didn’t happen because of an earthquake. It happened because people in key positions did not do their job. Either by neglect or criminal conduct, deliberate conduct. And nobody has been held to account. Every bank in Greece has at least one manager. In some large retail banks you might have at least 50 people working in risk. Who signed all those loans?

Halet
It is a very good thing to keep on putting pressure on both the European Commission and the politicians at national level, be it Greek, and it is by making this kind of conferences that we will continue to put pressure, that we will continue to talk about whistleblowers, especially about how to find solutions to protect them.

Elmer
I think it was a very important event because we talked about the law which needs to be changed in respect of protection of the whistle-blowers. That is an absolutely key issue. Because if there is no protection for whistleblowers then the information the society needs will not be revealed. We are talking about tax evasion, tax fraud, terrorist financing, corruption, even money laundering, even issues for instance in a hospital where doctors abuse their power, they just go for the money. So, the protection of whistle blowers is absolutely key to make our society a better place.