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Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-06-10
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[01] 'Nothing will stop changes and reforms', Karamanlis reaffirms
[01] 'Nothing will stop changes and reforms', Karamanlis reaffirms
"Nothing will stop the ongoing changes and reforms, the government's
reforms strategy is continuing unwaveringly", Prime Minister Costas
Karamanlis reaffirmed on Sunday, speaking in the central city of
Larissa at his ruling New Democracy (ND) party's pre-congress for
central Greece and Thessaly.
He said that the substantive reform in the agricultural sector was
ensuring a new developmental prospect, creating new opportunities in
the productive process, and adding new jobs, and outlined in depth the
relevant actions his government was taking in all the peripheries.
Karamanlis explained that the government was encouraging and actively
supporting the organisation of the agricultural sector on the basis of
the principles of entrepreneurship, the creation of competitive farming
exploitations, the production of organic farming and animal-breeding
products, the implementation of integrated management systems, the
projection and promotion of farm products, the strengthening of the
human capital through appropriate orientation and systematic state
assistance, the foundation of inter-professional organisations and
boosting of the producer groups, the creation of the necessary
infrastructures through the construction of reservoirs and irrigation
works, protection of the environment and the natural resources,
adaptation of production to the particularities and advantages of each
region, the restructuring of large cultivations, support of local
cultivations that produce traditional quality products, and the
development of parallel economic activities such as agro-tourism and
standardisation of farm products.
The prime minister referred to the intensive pace at which the projects
on the national highway network were progressing, stressing that the
lethal "horseshow" on the Malliakos Gulf stretch of the national
highway was being converted into a modern highway of European
standards, while the tender for the major project at Tempi and
Platamonas was in the final stage, the contract for the construction of
the Central Greece axis has been signed and construction would begin in
September, the "strategic" project that will cross the Thessaly plane
was set to commence, the Larisa-Trikala and Larisa-Karditsa sections of
the national highway were being upgraded, and a bypass of the town of
Volos was also under construction.
Caption: PM Karamanlis addresses an event in Kammena Vourla, central
Greece, on Saturday, June 10, 2007. ANA-MPA / G. ANTONIOU
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