Rena Dourou / The federal government is “graying” islands and islets

SYRIZA-PS International Minister Rena Dourou poses pressing inquiries to the federal government in regards to the Particular Spatial Plan for tourism, which gives for the ban on vacationer building on Greek islands, together with uninhabited islands and islets with out financial infrastructure.

“Is the federal government making plans a law that, beneath the guise of defending the surroundings, weakens the sovereign rights of our nation at the islands and islets of the Aegean at a time when Turkey is systematically selling the competitive time table of the “Blue Place of origin”?

May just this specialised provision represent a danger to the pursuits of our nation?” asks the deputy of the primary opposition celebration.

As he explains, “in keeping with the global regulation of the ocean, the absence of monetary task on an island or micro-island, includes the lack of its rights to the EEZ and continental shelf”.

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In line with a contemporary newspaper file (Estia), a invoice of the Ministry of Power within the session section, in regards to the Particular Spatial Plan for tourism, supplies for the prohibition of vacationer building on Greek islands, together with uninhabited islands and islets with out financial task infrastructure.

Is the federal government making plans a law that, beneath the guise of defending the surroundings, weakens the sovereign rights of our nation at the islands and islets of the Aegean at a time when Turkey is systematically selling the competitive time table of the “Blue Place of origin”?

May just this specialised provision represent a danger to the pursuits of our nation? As a result of in keeping with the global regulation of the ocean, the absence of monetary task on an island or micro-island, implies the lack of its rights to the EEZ and continental shelf.

If the precise law after all is going forward, it can be a double whammy. At first, as it paves the way in which for a weakening of the Greek place vis-à-vis Turkey in terms of negotiations for the delimitation of the EEZ and continental shelf within the Aegean. Secondly, as it seems that the present govt treats environmental coverage utterly hypocritically and instrumentally: as a automobile for selling an time table that has not anything to do with sustainable building and tackling the local weather disaster however works on the expense of the rustic’s sovereign rights.