As difficult as it may seem to some political party henchmen, natural gas has no colour.
And eventhough in Cyprus, it seems to have finally become understandable, there are institutional difficulties for that to occur in Greece.
Consequently, though in Cyprus, four different governments have in actual fact taken the same steps towards the utilization of the Cypriot EEZ, in Greece everyone is trying to say, that it’s their political party and not the others who will succeed, or even better, that the others will do nothing, without of course, specifying whether they themselves will do anything in altering their inaction.
The fact that we ought to persuade the Greek politicians that the EEZ is important and that it constitutes part of Greece’s future may seem paradoxical, but it isn’t strange.
Since the EEZ is an hyperpartisan issue, each Greek political party which wants to see our homeland develop economically and avoid the continuity of the problems which exist in relation to other countries, should make a contribution and have a participation towards the struggle for the exploitation of the EEZ.
It is unacceptable that there is even at this point of time, and after so many years of explanations, political controversy concerning this issue.
It’s not regarding a mere detail which doesn’t change anything, but on the contrary about the essence of the entire issue.
The delays we experience at many levels in regards to the EEZ issue, are not merely due to the legal approach of the matter, as such certainly existed, but due to a strategy which doesn’t propose absolutely anything new for the future of Greece
The same applies at the Regional level, and we can’t waste time upon a licensing round with European specifications, which will allow the regions to directly receive a 5% of the Greek state’s earnings.
We can’t still be at a phase of not having yet chosen a regional representative for the negotiations which will take place with the candidate consortiums.
And that, on account of the balances to be held by the Region, due to the political parties.
A.S.A.P, the Ionian Region, the Peloponnesian Region, as well as the Region of Crete, ought to choose these representatives of theirs, because it’s only a matter of days for us to have the licensing round published in the Official Journal of the European Union.