Inside Minister Constantinos Ioannou met individually with two Greek ministers in Athens on Friday to debate civil safety and housing points.
Within the morning, Ioannou met with Greece’s Local weather Disaster Minister Vassilis Kikilias. The 2 ministers exchanged updates on how their international locations deal with emergency conditions and civil safety.
Ioannou defined Cyprus’ plan to reorganise its civil safety system. The aim, he mentioned, is to improve the civil defence pressure into a brand new civil safety directorate, bettering coordination and disaster response. He additionally famous that Cyprus is working with French specialists to boost its emergency administration system.
Kikilias outlined Greece’s nationwide civil safety programme, referred to as Aigis, which incorporates infrastructure upgrades and technical enhancements.
He highlighted a €2 billion finances, largely sourced from European Union funds, aimed toward enhancing civil safety abilities and information. He additionally offered Greece’s nationwide disaster administration and danger response mechanism, which covers the complete catastrophe administration cycle.
Each side reviewed progress on the memorandum of understanding signed final April on the European emergency quantity 112. Kikilias famous that Greece is updating its system to combine synthetic intelligence, whereas Ioannou thanked Greece for its assist in serving to Cyprus implement the system.
Later within the day, Ioannou met with Greece’s Social Cohesion Minister Sofia Zacharaki. The pair agreed to discover the concept of internet hosting a joint European convention on housing.
The ministers welcomed the inclusion of housing underneath the portfolio of European vitality commissioner Dan Jorgensen and pledged to push for the creation of a devoted housing job pressure inside the European Fee.
Ioannou offered Cyprus’ housing insurance policies, together with incentives to broaden housing inventory and schemes to assist younger individuals and households. Zacharaki mentioned Greece’s My Dwelling II scheme, which subsidises housing rates of interest utilizing nationwide and EU funds.
In addition they examined the Renovate-Hire scheme, which operates in each international locations with some variations, and checked out methods to enhance it.
Lastly, each ministers acknowledged the challenges posed by rising international funding in actual property and the impression of Airbnb on housing markets.
