“The climate crisis is here, the conditions are different, other infrastructure projects are needed and we all have to be trained from the beginning,” the Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, Vassilis Kikilias, said speaking to SKAI, on the occasion of the bad weather Betina that hit the Chalcidice.

The minister spoke about the upcoming bill, about the measures taken to reduce the risk of extreme weather events, as well as about the interventions that are being made with the aim of coordinating all the agencies involved in the prevention and management of natural disasters

What changes does it predict? bill on civil protection, which has already been consulted and will be voted on at the beginning of December

For fires:

– DEDIE and ADMIE will be able to create fire zones in the forests, “without bureaucracy”
– Fire protection zones of 100 meters around the camps
– Coordination of competent bodies for fire protection zones within a semi-urban-semi-urban tissue, following instructions from the Fire Department and Civil Protection

For the cleaning of streams in Attica and flood protection

“The region cleaned the beds of Kifissos and some mayors the streams right and left, at the borders of their municipalities, but not all of them responded to the instructions.

My job is to protect citizens. I will go to the prosecutor of the Supreme Court and ask that all those who do not want to do their job, either now with the anti-flood works, or later with the measures against the fires, be checked.

“Those mayors who don’t care put the citizens at risk and that’s where the Civil Protection comes in,” emphasized V. Kikilias.