The brand new Minister of Rural Growth and Meals, Kostas Tsiaras, as he took up his duties along with the brand new Deputy Minister of AAT, Christos Kella, acknowledged his priorities.
Through the handover ceremony, which came about on Friday (14/6), the brand new minister, Kostas Tsiaras, emphasised that he’ll do all the things doable to assist a social group with particular traits and who’re one of many primary pillars of the economic system.
He famous that ranchers and farmers are dealing with the local weather disaster in addition to accuracy. He additionally stated that “the brand new Widespread Agricultural Coverage is coming and it brings new points that have to be addressed.”
He additionally stated he has blended emotions about succeeding Lefteris Avgenakis, with whom he shares a standard social gathering path. He referred to the work that has been carried out after the 2023 elections, making particular reference to the essential actions and choices of the HYPAAT after Daniel in Thessaly, not solely when it comes to paying compensation but additionally for the reconstruction of the area, expressing that everybody is aware of the nice wrestle that came about from the HYPAAT within the earlier interval.
The outgoing minister, Lefteris Avgenakis, emphasised that issues weren’t straightforward throughout his time period, however, as he usually stated, “we “clicked” higher within the main sector”. He famous that “there may be nonetheless numerous work to have the ability to create a protected panorama for the farmers of our nation”, and he declared that he and his shut associates are keen to assist the work of the brand new Minister, as a result of he needs to be helpful. for the nation but additionally to point out that this authorities works. He additionally referred to the accomplice path with Costas Tsiaras as a result of when he was Secretary Common of the social gathering the brand new minister was Secretary Common of the ND Parliamentary Group.
Outgoing Minister Lefteris Avgenakis stated:
“I wish to welcome colleagues and good pals Kostas Tsiaras and Christos Kellas to the Ministry. We’ve got a protracted friendship with Kostas and this friendship will proceed. We labored exhausting because the Common Secretary of the KO and I because the Secretary of the Celebration in tough instances. And I’m completely satisfied as a result of HYPAAT is in protected palms. It goes into the palms of Thessalonians who, if nothing else, are properly conscious of the issues of a area in ache and struggling. I additionally welcome Christos Kellas, additionally from Thessalon, MP for Larissa, who additionally has deep information of the problems associated to the Thessalian plain.
I wish to thank from the underside of my coronary heart everybody who has labored exhausting, with religion and consistency, through the 12 months or so, searching for a optimistic end result, which isn’t at all times straightforward. We labored underneath very robust circumstances, which we by no means imagined we might be requested to work underneath. We’ve got carried out so much. ¨However the stick is coming to you, Kostas, together with your companions to realize rather more, for the sake of the Greek farmer, for the sake of our nation, for the sake of our authorities. I sincerely want from the underside of my coronary heart and I imply it, Kostas, that you simply achieve your work, collectively together with your companions. Dionysis Stamenitis with whom we labored collectively and I thank him, but additionally the GGs, Dimitris Papagiannidis, Kostas Baginetas and Giorgos Stratakos, with whom we spent the best variety of hours, days and nights within the Thessalian plain. I’d additionally wish to thank Stavros Keletsis for his cooperation, in addition to the heads of the supervising establishments, as a result of issues weren’t straightforward. We made it one click on higher. However there may be nonetheless numerous work to be carried out to create a protected panorama for our nation’s farmers.
I need to thanks to your friendship and I want you energy and braveness to take care of it. It goes with out saying, and not using a second thought, that I and my colleagues are at your disposal, wherever wanted. As a result of above all, a very powerful factor is how we will likely be helpful on this place, how this authorities will produce helpful work and the way Kyriakos Mitsotakis will achieve standing bravely, as he did earlier than, in each issue he’s requested to handle as. The prime minister of this nation of ours. Good luck”.
The Minister for Rural Growth and Meals, Kostas Tsiaras, stated:
“I’m honored by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ determination to assign me the duties of Minister of Rural Growth and Meals.
There isn’t any doubt that the area of the first sector has been a really difficult area for a while. Challenges that might begin from the implications and results of local weather change, from the truth that farmers and breeders face the problem of excessive prices and accuracy, but additionally from the truth that many points are on the forefront of the brand new Widespread Agricultural Coverage. they must be addressed as an entire.
I do not suppose we’ve got any alternative however to work exhausting after the Prime Minister says. The whole lot that may be carried out to alleviate rural life from its issues and naturally with out saying so much to offer the likelihood to the Greek society, by way of the first schooling sector, to take the required steps, by way of adjustments, reforms, and thru issues that there’s an apparent resolution. .
I am not hiding from you that I’ve blended emotions. I say this as a result of I share a standard path with Lefteris Avgenakis, he himself described it a few years in the past. Many joint efforts. Many joint struggles in order that we will create the circumstances for the New Democracy authorities, which began with Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in 2019, to answer all these main challenges of Greek society and to supply options to stagnant issues, with adjustments, reforms, institutional interventions, which the nation, our homeland and society have wanted for a few years.
So on this effort we’re collectively, after all when life and destiny deliver me to succeed him, you perceive and I say this very truthfully, the feelings are human, blended, they’re – I’d say – soiled on one another, roughly, however I feel everybody’s effort and work is recorded.
Think about that everybody is aware of that the nice wrestle of the previous 12 months on the Ministry of Rural Growth and Meals, by way of the numerous unimaginable occasions that everybody was requested to handle – and I’m speaking about Lefteris Avgenakis, but additionally underneath Stavros Keletsis, and naturally for Dionysis Stamenitis – I feel they gave the chance to the Greek society, and particularly within the main sector, to see that nothing is straightforward.
Quite the opposite, we’re at a crucial level the place interventions have to be made, for which we should agree, however we should additionally transfer in one of the best and quickest means in the fitting course.
It’s a indisputable fact that this effort has had measurable outcomes this 12 months and I feel everybody is aware of it, not solely in relation to the problems associated to the Widespread Agricultural Coverage and even to getting sources which might be directed in a method or one other . the first faculty sector, however primarily in issues and points associated to the administration of local weather change crises.
I even have private expertise and that’s the reason I say it so simply, coming from Thessaly, along with Christos, and from a prefecture that has been affected lately by the continued penalties of local weather change, I’ve seen the hassle nice that was carried out and to pay the compensations as rapidly as doable, however after all additionally for the entire remedy of the issues that arose throughout that time frame.
I feel that everybody writes their very own story, and I perceive that your observe is recorded with a totally optimistic signal.
We’re right here to strive collectively, as a crew all collectively and with the Common Secretaries, Giorgos Stratakos, Costas Baginetas and Dimitris Papagiannidis, to offer all our energy, to do all the things doable to take care of the problems within the sector main.
We promise to do all the things doable to assist a social group that we all know has explicit traits. An essential sector of our nationwide economic system, the true lifetime of the countryside, the people who find themselves struggling and dealing in their very own means and who stand as much as them with insurance policies, reforms, decisions and to offer them a chance to really feel that the federal government is actual. they stand by them and can do all the things doable to offer them a greater tomorrow.”