“We have entered the final stretch, everything has been put into order,” Development and Investments Minister Adonis Georgiadis said on Monday regarding the progress of the Hellenikon project, according to ANA.
Speaking to “Praktoreio 104.9 FM”, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency’s (ANA) radio station, Georgiadis announced that a draft bill tabled by Infrastructure and Transport ministry in Parliament included all regulations to facilitate the immediate start of works in Hellenikon project, “soon after completion of an international tender for the casino license”. The minister said Hard Rock International has a January 31 deadline to lodge an appeal against a decision awarding the license to the other candidate in the tender. “I can understand it when a company losing a tender is not pleased but in a tender, someone loses, someone wins,” Georgiadis said.
He stressed the need to begin a public consultation on what to do with the area of the current airport in Heraklion, Crete, ahead of the start of works for the construction of a new international airport in Kasteli.
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