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Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-08-13
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[01] Interior minister in Crete
[01] Interior minister in Crete
Interior, Public Administration and Decentralisation Minister Prokopis
Pavlopoulos at a press conference he gave at Iraklio, Crete, on Monday,
reveiwed the actions of the Crete Regions during the previous three
year period.
"These past three-and-a half years, Crete managed to become
consolidated as a region with dynamic potential, which shows important
rates of growth, capitalising to the full on both its island character
and every specific comparative advantages and which it firmly gains the
position which it deseves in the broader region of the southeastern
Mediterranean," Pavlopulos said.
Pavlopoulos referred to Crete's regional operational programmes (PEP),
stating that "the rate of absorption in 2004 and after a four-year
period of implementation of the programme, we found 1,250 entered
projects and within just three years, we increased them to 3,000."
This means, Pavlopoulos added, that out of the 3,000 PEP projects,
1,750 were introduced after April 2004.
The minister also made special reference to the Thiseas development
programme, which, as he said, offers in a five-year period, two times
more in funds than the EPTA (local government operational programmes)
granted in 7 years.
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