“The apology of the Prime Minister from all our fellow citizens who have suffered and some are still suffering, says it all. “When the whole case is over, a cool assessment should be made, at what point the mistake was made”, stressed the Minister of Development and Investment, ‘Adonis Georgiadis, speaking in the First Program 91.6 and 105.8.
“The staff of the State has so far faced terribly difficult events without human losses and this is a great success. “From ‘all is well’ to ‘all black’, there is a distance,” he said.
“If we exclude the part of Attiki Odos and some problems in some main roads that could possibly be justified by the severity of the phenomenon, the general picture is that we did better than” Medea “. There were few power outages, there was no water interruption, areas that had suffered a lot in Medea (Dionysos, Agios Stefanos, Kifissia and others) were not excluded this time. I think that the branches of the trees were collected to a much greater extent than last year and HEDNO seems to have done a very good job in this area, which is why the power outages were less. “Not everything is black,” he said characteristically. He spoke about a substantial difference in relation to last year’s bad weather “Medea”, “where at that time the traffic of trucks on Attiki Odos was immediately banned, something that did not happen in” Elpida “and the trucks folded”.
Asked about the “ball” of responsibilities between Attiki Odos and the Traffic Police, he stated that all this is not a matter of controversy on the radio and television and will be proven to the competent committee that will investigate the facts, with documents, emails and the times that occurred. “Attiki Odos collects many millions a year, and it is in its contractual obligations to keep the road open with its machines and its management. He gets paid for it, he does not make it big. “So she was not okay with this contractual obligation, with all that that entails,” he pointed out.
Mr. Georgiadis stated that because he was not in the operational part he could not easily say whether there was a problem of delay on the part of the state mechanism in the release of the people, but noted that the Police and the Armed Forces saved too many people for another once showed their huge social role.
Regarding the responsibilities of the region and the municipalities for the problems on other main roads, he wondered if it would be possible in any state and if we were, such a heavy snowfall would not create problems in the traffic. He gave as an example that in New York, a state completely organized for the snow, he has found himself in absolute chaos, with everything stopped. “It is not always possible for the state to defeat nature. “Do not ask for things that do not stand,” he added.
He disagreed with the indication that this is the third unsuccessful management of emergency weather phenomena, after the overheating and the fires of the summer and the floods from the bad weather “Ballo”. “It is a miracle that there were no human casualties in such a fire and with such heat. We had reached 45, 46, 47 degrees Celsius, for 3-4 days. Ten days ago, in the richest and most powerful country in the world, in the USA, in the state of Virginia, where Washington is located, tens of thousands of households were left off the streets for 3-4 days, without electricity. Do not always expect man to conquer nature. It can not be done. Our first concern must be the non-loss of human lives. This was achieved in the summer and now. It’s not self-evident, not miraculously. It happened because the State went and freed them. If you can do that, you have achieved half the success, because everything else is fixed. Beyond that, obviously there were atrocities and mistakes, we have to apologize generously, the people who are shouting are right. “On the other hand, it is not possible to think that the State can solve everything,” he stressed.
Asked about the serious lack of coordination, which was also mentioned by the Prime Minister at yesterday’s cabinet meeting, Mr. Georgiadis stressed that “Mr. Mitsotakis said it very well. We learn and move on, every time an event happens. And the northern states that have learned to deal with snow have suffered and learned. Can you travel in northern Europe after October and not have snow tires? We, as a society, are a little unprepared. While all these drivers entered without chains, while the State had said that it needs attention because it will snow, this is impressive. You can not have the gendarme over your head all the time. We did not put a gendarme, wrong, wrong “, he added.
He clarified, however, that it is not only the drivers’ fault, as the main responsibility belongs to the State. “The state and the government apologize and we have to analyze what went wrong, but there is a culture of snow that we do not have. We saw photos from the street of Athens where the Norwegian ambassador lives. The whole road is full of snow except for the ambassador’s house which he cleaned with a shovel. Because he has learned from a young age. We have not learned it. “We have not understood that when the message comes to us from 112 on the mobile phone, this is something serious”, he explained.
He admitted, of course, that he had not realized that he would pave it so quickly in the center of Athens. I have never seen it in his life. “It was a terrible day on Monday, I am ashamed to see those who suffered and were trapped, but unfortunately it happened,” he said.
Certainly inflation will remain high. Market controls
In addition, the Minister estimated that it is absolutely certain that inflation in our country will remain high, as the average inflation in the Eurozone is 5% and in the US is 7.7%.
“It can not be avoided that the first period of 2022 will be high inflation. “It’s absolutely obvious that the global economic cycle is entering a phase of high inflation.”
He cited ELSTAT data showing an increase in disposable income for the third quarter of 2021, saying that even if there is a decrease in disposable income with inflation, there will be an increase on a yearly basis. Despite the crisis of accuracy, our disposable income in 2021, increased, did not decrease.
“2022 will be a year with a reduction in disposable income if the government does not take action. But the government is taking action. “We are raising the basic salary, we are doing NSRF programs to support companies to keep their jobs, we have reduced taxes, and we are checking for accuracy in the market,” he explained.
According to Mr. Georgiadis, controls have begun in the market, mainly for fruits and vegetables, as there is a fear that some will proceed to unjustified increases, taking advantage of the bad weather.
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