2024-04-30 05:11:44
The first meeting of the newly established Subcommittee on Mountainous Areas of the Special Standing Committee on Regions of the Parliament, which was held in the presence of the President of the Parliament, Konstantinos Tasoulas, was accompanied by findings and proposals for the regeneration of the mountainous regions.
The members of the Subcommittee were informed by the rector of the National Technical University of Metsov, professor of the School of Shipbuilding and Mechanical Engineering Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou, the director of the Metsov Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ME.KDE), professor of the School of Mining Engineering – Metallurgists of NTUA Dimitris Kaliambakos, the president of the Union of Regions of Greece, the regional governor of Central Macedonia Apostolos Tzitzikosta, the regional governor of Epirus Alexandros Kahrimanis, the president of the Central Union of Municipalities of Greece (KEDE), the mayor of Ampelokipi – Menemeni Lazaros Kyrizoglou, the president of the Committee of Mountain Municipalities of the Central Union of Municipalities of Greece, the mayor of Anogeia Sokratis Kefalogianni and the mayor of Metsovo Maria-Christina Averof.
The purpose of the subcommittee is to study the problems of these areas, to submit proposals for their sustainable economic development, the protection of the residential and natural environment and the preservation and promotion of cultural tradition.
The need to keep Greece standing where it has always stood, in its mountains, the President of the Parliament pointed out in his opening speech, asking the members of the new Subcommittee on Mountainous Areas of the Parliament and the self-governing and university bodies cooperating with them to “force » the State with ideas and proposals, which will contribute decisively to the observance of the constitutional requirement for the State’s need to care for the mountainous areas of the country.
“Our Subcommittee has a very interesting challenge. There is the knowledge, there is the political will, there is the institutional enshrinement, there is the Constitution. This effort must be justified, not as an attempt to draw up reports or proposals, but as an attempt – if I may express it – to coerce the Administration through arguments for the convincing development of the mountainous regions, which are so special and in such need,” he said. characteristics.
As the governor of Epirus, Alexandros Kahrimanis, emphasized in his statements, there is a need for a special plan, with specific targeting, for the mountainous areas and radical interventions, which will stop the desertification in the villages and create conditions for balanced development. In fact, he proposed the establishment of a Deputy Ministry of Mountaineering, equivalent to the Deputy Ministry of Island Policy, in order to provide solutions to issues that touch the competence of several ministries, but also to highlight solutions to issues of strengthening and reversing the decline of the population in mountainous areas.