Joint Communication of the Department of Rural Development and Food, Santa Claus Kokkalis, and the Department of Rural Policy SYRIZA-PS, For the latest developments regarding the OPECEPE.
In detail:
‘By Greek taxpayers, through the state budget, will be covered by a fine of 415m euros, imposed by the European Commission on Greece for irregularities on the payment of CAP Union subsidies, According to statements of the Minister of Rural Development & Food Costa Tsiara to ERT. Mr Tsiaras, provoking the common sense and without any moral suspension and self -criticism, said that money would be gradually withheld from future Union aid, with the burden returning to the national budget, as farmers are paid in advance by the state. In other words, Greek taxpayers will be called upon to “pay the marble” for the incompetence, interplay and corruption of the ND staff, at a time when high costs and low wages “kneel” by Greek households. That is, at a time when citizens’ needs for support are increased, € 415 million will not be directed to social protection measures or development policies, but will “cover” government irregularities.
And indeed, Mr Tsiaras did not consider it necessary to seek, albeit pre-emptively, apologies to Greek citizens for this disadvantaged fine, which corresponds to 78% of the impositions imposed on the European Union member states, while in the overwhelming majority of the majority of the European Union and the overwhelming majority of The largest amounts of charges, EUR 79 million and EUR 76 million, relate to crops for 2021 and 2022.
But what to expect from Mr Tsiaras, who in the same interview by substituting justice and dictating any of its decisions, confirming that the European Public Prosecutor’s Office for the huge OPEKEPE scandal, in the 2019-2022 period, included the names of two. In addition, continuing to the well -known and outdated line of dissemination of responsibilities and “timeless pathogens” for all ND scandals, he stressed that “the government cannot be demonized when people from other parties are involved” and that “there is no doubt that this is unacceptable!”
Fortunately, however, the developments were faster in Mr Tsiaras’ non -existent political well -being, and their resignation from their ministerial duties were submitted, in the case of OPEKEPE, by the Minister of Migration and Asylum Voridis, as well as the Deputy Foreign Ministers Mr. Proven that the vortex of another scandal of the government of excellence, during its six -year term, this OPEKEPE, was touching “the core of the Maximus Grand” and “the Mitsotakis Power System”, with the revelations being “no snow” and no snowstorms.
We look forward to the same, albeit late “political faith” by Mr Tsiaras, especially when he announced in his same interview that the payment of aid for biological livestock and beekeeping is temporarily postponed, as “new controls must be preceded”. Otherwise, it will be recorded, if not already recorded, in the consciousness of our long -standing rural world, as yet another Minister of Rural Development & Food of the ND who “saw the irregularities pass”, the “fines to fall like hail” and “pay”, finally, the only ones. “