The criticism of the opposition for real estate in the Army was rejected by National Defense Minister Nikos Dendias and underlined the strong will to exploit the huge real estate of the National Defense Fund to raise resources and support the construction program.

The Minister of National Defense, intervening in the plenary session of the House during the debate on the bill to exploit the real estate of the Armed Forces has revealed several cases that reflect the timeless problem management of real estate while at the same time leaving hints of “phenomena”.

More specifically, Mr. Dendias said:

– TETA today is housed in a beautiful neoclassical on the plate of 2,400 sq.m. This property can be leased at a minimum of 1m euros a year. Today it houses 29 employees of TETHA and another 20 people of the Army Geographical Service. Each employee has a personal space of 60 – 70 sq.m.

– The National Fleet Fund is housed on Fidiou Street in a 700 sqm building and 10 people work there. Each employee has 70 sq.m.

– Aviation Fund is located in a 400 sqm building on Soutsu Street

– How many of you have gone to the abolished army premises. You have seen the pool that is owned by TETHA. Are 49.5 meters

-Do you know why not 50? Because it should be available for sporting events. You want this slide and account.

-There is an entire apartment building next to us. Corner of America and Academy. Until a few months ago they used it for only one officer. To reside in the penthouse. We stopped it and leased it for 800,000 euros a month. It was costing us the hospitality of a single officer 800,000 a month

-History with the building that houses the Attica department store, which is the history of the Army Share Fund? I had to renegotiate with Piraeus Bank, which in an unacceptable way was claiming to remain the rent at the level of the crisis that had reduced it again in an unacceptable way. And we doubled it.

Addressing the opposition parties that denounced the promoted arrangements, he said, “Do you describe this situation to you? I’m not going to do it “while adding” This year at the Evelpidon School there were 34 more than last year. We are not satisfied. To staff the EDs we need not only a sufficient number but the best. For this reality we are fighting. From savings I try to improve staff financial earnings. It is not the usual model of the Greek State. But the usual is to go to the National Accounting Office and to ask for resources. I try with savings to find the money. A piece of savings go to finance the ED mortgage. We are looking for resources from the utilization of property that is not necessary. “

Tomorrow the statement of participation in SAFE

“We will submit a statement to Safe tomorrow, with the 1.2 billion euros of budgetary space given to me by the Treasury. Otherwise I would not submit a statement to Safe. The country is not allowed to be where it was old again and the prime minister signed it. As the Ministry of Finance has signed it, “National Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said, responding, from the plenary session, to the opposition parties that charged the government for the program.

“What is not clear from what I said so far? An element of the country is its economy. We have seen what it means to go beyond our budgetary limits. Didn’t Greek society suffered enough during these 9 years of crisis? Didn’t we suffer enough? When I told you from the beginning that I do not have the slightest intention to overcome the fiscal space that the Treasury has given me, did I say something you do not sign? Would you rather follow the logic of 800 equipment programs and 55 billion fiscal opening in 4 years? Would that be the right thing to do? Ask my predecessor, N. Panagiotopoulos, about the huge effort that made this huge gap. And we managed for the first time to deposit 20 years of equipment within the fiscal framework. No, I was not going to get out of this budgetary framework if the Ministry of Finance was not giving me any more fiscal space, “Mr Dendias said, noting: “And of course we will submit a statement to Safe tomorrow, with the € 1.2 billion fiscal space given to me by the Treasury. Otherwise I would not submit a statement to Safe. The country is not allowed to be where it was old again and the prime minister signed it. As the Ministry of Finance has signed it. ”

The Minister of National Defense referred to the Safe Regulation and how the EU reached the agreement.

“Safe is a complex regulation. Brussels bureaucrats form things in a way that want careful analysis. Safe is also a regulation, for which the majority was sufficient, if desired,. It was not a regulation that required unanimity. So Greece, any Greek government, could not block it. The countries, which were criticized, against the original form of Safe, were Greece, France, Cyprus, Croatia and Slovenia. These countries do not have blocking minority, they do not exceed 35%. So Greece could only negotiate. Could not exclude. So whatever fusing here for non -defense of the national interest has no meaning. So the question was, in this way, given what could the country do? “The Minister of National Defense said, and informed:” Safe has two different categories. Participation in a 35% equipment program and 100% participation. There is no question at 35%. At 100%, following an explicit requirement of a large European country, there was an express reference to the Rules of Procedure for the need for unanimity for the participation of third countries. Since Greece did not have a blocking minority in the council, it could not stop it. There was a compromise. The Commission said orally and its statement was recorded in the minutes, it is not included in the text of the Regulation, that whatever it brings would bring it with provisions referring to unanimity. This is the oral statement recorded in the minutes. “

The Minister of National Defense responded to government critics for a negotiating deficit. “You ask me if I would like something more. Of course I would like something more. I didn’t negotiate it. It is not the Ministers of Defense who negotiate it. Of course I would like something more, as you would like something more, as we would all like here something more. We could achieve something more? The moment there was no possibility of negativity, since there was no blocking minority, how would this happen? And in a confidential discussion, I can give you much more details about all this. But I don’t think Safe is the privileged field for opposition against the government. I am neither to triumph for Safe nor to endanger. “said Mr. Dendias.

I will tell you more is the potential problem for Greece in the future, the Minister of National Defense said and noted: “The Ministry of National Defense has chosen, on my political leadership, to submit long -term equipment for the first time. This has never been done, no matter which party it ruled. We deposited a 12 -year -old equipment. There was, of course, equipment, with a difference. Despite the efforts of my predecessor Nikos Panagiotopoulos, he had a slight over $ 52.5 billion in four years and so he had never been deposited. In order to submit an equipment and have a seriousness, it must be within the approved and agreed with the Ministry of Finance, fiscal framework. Otherwise it has no seriousness. And it has no seriousness for the country’s political system, any political system, any government. So this equipment deposited was within the agreed fiscal framework with the Ministry of Finance. Anything else else was just a wish list. The perception of the low loan is a perception that does not obviously not realize that the loan is a loan and would also have to compare them to public interest rates, which, thanks to this success, the government is indeed low. So the profit from the two interest rates do not consider it so serious. The damage from the overrun of the budgetary threshold is considered serious because the country loses its credibility. “

The government, the Minister of National Defense said, chose to participate in Safe and gave a list, a small fiscal margin. “In this additional budgetary margin, we will bring in front of weapons systems that are already on long -term equipment. We’re not going to put anything new. And we will ask for the participation of other European countries, “Mr Dendias said.

Concerning his statement last May, Mr Dendias said: “I addressed our partners in the EU. And I told them not to try to violate the Committee on Criminal, because this would open a back door of Turkey’s participation in the EU defense mechanism. What would you disagree with in this room? Who wouldn’t say the same thing? This is the situation in terms of safe and the ability to place myself in public reason. “