“The basis for maritime spatial planning existed, but the government has not used it for four years,” PASOK’s parliamentary spokesman Dimitris Mantzos told SKAI on Thursday.

In the aftermath of the government’s announcement by the government, D. Mantzos stressed that “it is a very serious matter for delaying four years, as it is the satisfaction of our country’s union obligation since 2014 to manage and protect the natural environment. For a country like Greece, which 20% of its seas are among Natura 2000 maps, it was necessary in terms of environmental and geopolitical. “

He emphasized that “everything on paper is positive and it matters, as it can be exploited in negotiations but also in the future in the future”, however, clarifying, however, that “it is not the delineation of exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, despite the New Democracy executives”.

Dimitris Mantzos subsequently recalled that “there have been many warning letters and nuisances from the European Commission as early as 2021, when the 2014 Directive’s Integration Time has ended, as well as referral and condemnation of our country to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Manolis Christodoulakis and I, responsible for environmental and foreign issues respectively, had issued two announcements on this issue in the PASOK-Motor Change. “

He explained that the government’s oligarchy is considered unjustified, as “we could first, dwell on international law and its rules. Secondly, there is the previous one of Law 4001/2011 – “Maniatis Law”, under G. Papandreou’s Government, PASOK, which has identified the ultimate limits of the EEZ and continental shelf. That is, there was the base and the government did not use it. “

According to D. Manzo, in PASOK-Motion Change, “we consider that marine spatial planning for environmental and geopolitical reasons should have not been dependent on the prior demarcation of EEZ and continental shelf with neighboring countries. Unfortunately, the government did not do it out of phobia, it did not tell the truth when it needed it, and now some, and this four -year delay has been talking about almost epoch. “

He concluded that “it is positive and necessary the step that has taken but the timing is incorrect, because there has been a delay of four years that has threatened to aggravate the geopolitical treaty of our country.”

The parliamentary spokesman stressed that “we must be more sober, prudent, serious in foreign policy issues. And on the subject of marine spatial planning as well as on the subject of Kassos. The work of the Greece -Cyprus electric interconnection is pending and must be completed. It is a project of a common European interest, European funding, links us to Cyprus, by extension with Israel, is going to transfer energy from RES and join the EU’s “Green Transition” plan -a project that, in terms of international law under Article 79 of the UNCLOS, does not even require licensing.

In addition, regarding the issue of the fourth frigate Belharra, D. Mantzos noted that “we would like to have the House of Equipment Programs and Contracts Committee last Thursday. We support preventive strengthening, but we do not give a white check and we want prior information. “

Finally, it is called upon to be placed on the accuracy front, Dimitris Mantzos stressed that “it is not only the Easter season, but the whole market is more expensive in basic goods and we have documented it with elements coming from the market.

Because it is a very expensive Easter that burdens the financial budgets, we had asked the government to advance pensions. If he failed to do so – which he failed to do with the algorithmic and administrative reasons he cited – let’s secure an emergency accuracy check to the low -income pensioners who currently do not have the liquidity to buy what they are composing a Easter table.

And obviously, in addition to these extraordinary reinforcement measures for the Easter period, the problem of the problem remains: First, the tax burden of employees and retirees continuing because the government has not proceeded with the taxation of the tax scale. And, secondly, there has been no sufficient market control and regulation, which has been free to be unacceptable. Every Easter and worse. “