2024-05-26 15:58:48
The Vice President of the European Folks’s Occasion, former President of the New Democracy and head of the ND MEPs, Vangelis Meimarakis, toured Rhodes right this moment.
Within the morning, Meimarakis met with MPs Manos Konsolas, Vassilis Ypsilantis, Mika Iatridis, the president of the Dodecanese Occasion of Greece, Efi Charalambopoulou, the president of the EXR Yiannis Papavasileiou, the president of the ISR, Ilias Tserkis, the brand new president of the Dodecanese TEE Giorgos Savvenas, and different skilled our bodies of the island on the Opera Grande cafe.
Within the afternoon he visited the outdated city and talked with shopkeepers after which met with members of the DEEP Dodecanese at its places of work in Michail Petridis.
“These European elections are significantly essential. Greece has picture in Europe and the European Parliament is not a easy advisory physique like prior to now. 70% of the legal guidelines handed within the Nationwide Parliaments are legal guidelines of the European Parliament. The European Parliament is a part of our on a regular basis life. That’s the reason you will need to take part within the elections and to decide on very rigorously who we’ll ship to Brussels in order that we are able to proceed the work we began”, stated Mr. Meimarakis and added that:
“Greece for the primary time has a vice-president within the European Fee, Margaritis Schinas. For the primary time, he has a vice-president within the European Folks’s get together, he additionally had the presidency of the European areas with Apostolos Tzitzikostas, and he has the President of the Council of Europe, Theodoros Roussopoulos. On the identical time, the title of Kyriakos Mitsotakis for the European Fee is being mentioned. In all these years, Greece has by no means had such essential European positions. And we did not get them as a result of they gave them to us, however as a result of we have been evaluated they usually realized that we are able to meet the duty of those positions. We should make the most of this chance in the very best approach and reap the best advantages that the European Union can provide us.”