Ομιλία Υπουργού Κλιματικής Κρίσης και Πολιτικής Προστασίας Βασίλη Κικίλια στην ολομέλεια της Βουλής

Παρασκευή 8 Δεκεμβρίου 2023

Ομιλία Υπουργού Κλιματικής Κρίσης και Πολιτικής Προστασίας στη συζήτηση και ψήφιση επί της αρχής, των άρθρων και του συνόλου του Σχεδίου Νόμου: «Αναδιάρθρωση Πολιτικής Προστασίας - Εθνικός Μηχανισμός Εναέριας Διάσωσης και Αεροδιακομιδών και άλλες επείγουσες διατάξεις».

«Κυρίες και κύριοι συνάδελφοι, κυρία Πρόεδρε. Δεν υπάρχει καμία αμφιβολία ότι αυτό είναι ένα πάρα πολύ σοβαρό νομοσχέδιο και ως τέτοιο θα το αντιμετωπίσουμε.

Προ αυτού όμως θα ήθελα να πω, ότι ειδικά έχοντας την εμπειρία, την τύχη και την τιμή να προΐσταμαι του Υπουργείου Προστασίας του Πολίτη το 2014 και να ξέρω από πρώτο χέρι το ρίσκο, τις δυσκολίες, τις μάχες και τους αγώνες που δίνουν οι Έλληνες αστυνομικοί, αλλά και οι πυροσβέστες, επικοινώνησα χθες το βράδυ με τη Διοίκηση του Γενικού Κρατικού Νικαίας για να έχω μία εικόνα για το πώς είναι, γιατί είναι σε κρίσιμη κατάσταση ο Έλληνας αστυνομικός, ο οποίος τραυματίστηκε κατά τη διάρκεια του καθήκοντος. Και θέλω να εκφράσω σε αυτούς τους ανθρώπους τη στήριξή του, για κουράγιο, δύναμη στην οικογένειά του.

Ξαναμπήκε στο χειρουργείο από ότι μαθαίνω, ελπίζω η περιπέτειά του να έχει αίσιο τέλος. Είναι σε βαριά κατάσταση πράγματι ο άνθρωπος, και θέλω να πω ότι υπάρχουν αυτοί οι συνάνθρωποί μας που τα επαγγέλματά τους είναι διαφορετικά από τα δικά μας.

NASA's wonderful world!

 

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NATO update

NATO Secretary General meets the Prime Minister of Luxembourg NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Luc Frieden, in Brussels on Thursday 7 December 2023. Mr Stoltenberg congratulated Prime Minister Frieden on his recent appointment and thanked him for Luxembourg’s contributions to NATO, including its participation in NATO’s multinational battlegroup in Romania. The Secretary General welcomed Luxembourg’s commitment to increased defence spending and thanked the Prime Minister for his “commitment to have a concrete plan to reach 2% by the Washington Summit,” adding “this is key for a fair burden-sharing on both sides of the Atlantic”. Mr Stoltenberg also welcomed Luxembourg’s participation in NATO’s Innovation Fund and investments in NATO’s high-end capabilities, including the next generation of NATO’s AWACS early warning and surveillance aircraft. “This is one of NATO’s biggest-ever joint capability purchases,” he said and added that Luxembourg is at the forefront of NATO’s technological and innovation agenda. Click here to download the press point by the NATO Secretary General and the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, and here for the Q&A session. The webstory is available on the NATO website, as well as the transcript of the press point by NATO's Secretary General and Luxembourg's Prime Minister. Protecting Allied critical undersea infrastructure Undersea infrastructure such as cables and pipelines carry the vast amount of our Internet data, help us make trillions of dollars of financial transactions and transport 60 per cent of our oil and gas, so protecting such infrastructure is crucial to the well-being of our societies and to our security. NATO has stepped up the protection of undersea infrastructure. For instance, it has increased the number of air and sea patrols in the Baltic Sea.  NATO has also created an undersea infrastructure coordination cell designed to map risks and coordinate efforts between Allies, partner countries and national industries; and it has joined efforts with the European Union (EU) to improve the resilience of this critical infrastructure, through a NATO-EU dedicated task force. Click here to download the video.  You can also watch the video on YouTube.

Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau..

 Statement by the Prime Minister on the selection of the new premier of the Northwest Territories

December 8, 2023
Ottawa, Ontario 

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the selection of R.J. Simpson as the new premier of the Northwest Territories:

“On behalf of the Government of Canada, I congratulate R.J. Simpson, who was selected to serve as the new premier of the Northwest Territories by the Members of the Legislative Assembly.

IMF update

 

(Photo: МИХАИЛ РУДЕНКО/iStock by Getty Images) The pace at which artificial intelligence is transforming jobs is astounding, but while it boasts higher productivity AI is also increasing wage inequality. When workers are replaced by machines, real wages decline, and the owners of capital prosper. So who owns AI and how should its benefits be distributed? In this podcast, the IMF's Andrew Berg and Maryam Vaziri discuss AI’s inequality problem, the subject of their article in December’s special AI edition of Finance and Development magazine. Berg is Deputy Director, and Vaziri is an economist, both in the IMF Institute for Capacity Development.    Listen to the podcast on: IMF.org | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Soundcloud | Libsyn | Google Podcasts   Read the transcript     Thanks for listening to the podcast. We're always looking to improve your experience so let us know if you have any suggestions! Send your comments to me at bedwards2@imf.org.   Bruce Edwards Producer, IMF Podcasts

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COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,update

 

Press material Saturday 9 December 2023

● Council of the EU   09/12/2023 01:35 | Press release | Artificial intelligence act: Council and Parliament strike a deal on the first rules for AI in the world   Following 3-day ‘marathon’ talks, the Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators have reached a provisional agreement on the proposal on harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (AI), the so-called artificial intelligence act. The draft regulation aims to ensure that AI systems placed on the European market and used in the EU are safe and respect fundamental rights and EU values. This landmark proposal also aims to stimulate investment and innovation on AI in Europe. "This is a historical achievement, and a huge milestone towards the future! Today’s agreement effectively addresses a global challenge in a fast-evolving technological environment on a key area for the future of our societies and economies. And in this endeavour, we managed to keep an extremely delicate balance: boosting innovation and uptake of artificial intelligence across Europe whilst fully respecting the fundamental rights of our citizens." Carme Artigas, Spanish secretary of state for digitalisation and artificial intelligence