The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Costas Ah. Karamanlis on SKAI TV station.
Regarding the meeting of the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, with the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Sunday, March 13, in Istanbul, Mr. Karamanlis commented: “In the past, there was a school of thought, which said that we should not have a dialogue with But things were very different then, because Turkey was a country where at that time what it said was heard in the West, but today our foreign policy is characterized by self-confidence and what does that mean? “Greece has nothing to fear from dialogue. Dialogue does not mean retreat.”
The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport stated, moreover, that Greece has a force and a deterrence strategy that has worked, noting that in the last two and a half years our country has faced all threats from its neighbor with great success.
He also said that because of the crisis in Ukraine, “the attempt at revisionism, which both Russia and Turkey are having, is currently being rejected in Europe. “They do not ‘walk’ in the West today.”
Asked if Erdogan would put Turkey’s irrational demands back on the agenda, Karamanlis said Turkey had been raising issues in the Aegean since 1996 and the Imia crisis. “The issue is not what the Turkish President says. The issue is whether Greece is prepared and has strategic alliances – which it has today – to face this provocation and aggression.”
Asked to comment on the polls, the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport stressed that in all surveys there is a well-established wide difference between the first and second parties, which of course varies in every measurement. He expressed the view that for the first time such a thing is observed three years after the elections and this is because the people see a stable government, which has taken important steps and has successfully faced many crises.
On energy, he referred to the Prime Minister’s proposals at the EU Summit for common European solutions and said that it was not true that France’s proposal for a Eurobond was not accepted, as Europe will discuss it at the Summit on 25-26. month.
Mr. Karamanlis reminded that before the war broke out in Ukraine, the government had already made interventions for energy, amounting to two billion euros. “There will be no increase in public transport tickets,” he said. As the government noted, it will give priority to energy.
The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport also referred to Line 4 of the Athens Metro, for which a memorandum of cooperation was signed yesterday with the Municipality of Athens. “We agreed for the first time with the mayor – something that is happening everywhere in Europe but had never happened in Greece – that because all this work will create a disturbance in the city, we will make specific interventions so that the nuisance is limited,” he said. .
As he explained, regeneration interventions will be made. The municipality will hold architectural competitions and the central administration will finance the municipality to make these interventions.
Mr. Karamanlis underlined that in the last two and a half years, 3.5 billion euros of projects have been contracted, when the previous government had contracted only 800 million euros. He referred to Aktio-Amvrakia and Patras-Pyrgos, the extension of the Athens metro to the southern suburbs, while he stressed that the metro in Exarchia is proceeding normally.
Source: Capital
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