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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-05-15
CONTENTS
[01] European intransigence leads the negotiations to a deadlock, Energy
Min. Lafazanis says
[02] Defence Min. Kammenos proposal for creation of new NATO airbase in
the Aegean
[01] European intransigence leads the negotiations to a deadlock, Energy
Min. Lafazanis says
ANA/MPA---"Europe's problem is not the cursed left party. It is the
European intransigence that is leading the negotiations to a deadlock,
and not the supposedly obsolete obsessions of our country. There are many
and powerful circles in the EU and the IMF that are currently seeking to
strangle the Greek left experiment. If the plan is a European structure
from which Greece is excluded because it does not want to succumb,
then they will have to be aware that this Europe will be handicapped,
they will have to know that they are dissolving the European structure,"
Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister Panagiotis
Lafazanis on Friday said at the Economist conference.
Lafazanis also made a proposal for a fair delimitation of marine and
submarine rights across the Mediterranean, starting from the Aegean and
Southeast side.
He reiterated the government's decision to pursue an independent and
multi-level energy policy and expressed the government's support to TAP,
Greece - Bulgaria, the Greek Stream, designed to transport Russian gas
to Europe and the East Med, as well as the electrical connections in
the area.
Asked on the Russian gas pipeline, he said there are contracts and
available consumers as well as that Greece would not object to the
extension of the pipeline to Italy.
Regarding the market deregulation, he underlined that the "government
policy is in favor of market liberalization, of healthy and free
competition", but added that "deregulation does not mean downgrading and
abolition of the state in the energy sector, nor split and privatisation
of PPC, ADMIE and DEPA. This will not be done because it is not in the
interest of the country."
[02] Defence Min. Kammenos proposal for creation of new NATO airbase in
the Aegean
ANA/MPA---Defence Minister Panos Kammenos on Friday at the Economist
conference spoke of advanced discussions with Cosco, an extension of
cooperation with the company and involvement of the railway network.
He also said he will propose the creation of a new NATO air base in
the Aegean.
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