{"id":1144,"date":"2026-04-17T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:41:00","slug":"dimitra-halikia-on-opekepe-it-is-false-the-accusation-about-the-technical-solution-is-completely-unfounded-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"Dimitra Halikia on OPEKEPE: &#8220;It is false, the accusation about the technical solution is completely unfounded&#8221; (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"318\">The position that the so-called <strong data-start=\"116\" data-end=\"134\">&#8220;technical solution&#8221;<\/strong> to <b>OPEKEPE <\/b>is <strong data-start=\"154\" data-end=\"173\">absolutely legal<\/strong> and does not involve an economic dimension, said the former vice-president of the agency, <strong data-start=\"261\" data-end=\"280\">Dimitra Halikia<\/strong>, speaking on <strong data-start=\"309\" data-end=\"317\">Skai radio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"320\" data-end=\"569\">As she said, the procedure followed for the allocation of <strong data-start=\"385\" data-end=\"405\">vegetable land<\/strong> is explicitly provided for by the current institutional framework, stressing that the relevant decisions and approvals by the relevant ministers are <strong data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"568\">&#8220;perfectly legal&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"571\" data-end=\"861\">She referred by name to ministers <strong data-start=\"616\" data-end=\"670\">Apostolou, Arachovitis, Voridis, Livanos and Georgantas<\/strong>, noting that the &#8220;<strong data-start=\"693\" data-end=\"704\">agree<\/strong>&#8221; they have signed are fully in line with the provisions of the <strong data-start=\"765\" data-end=\"772\">KYA<\/strong>, which he said stipulates that ministers must approve the relevant lists.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"863\" data-end=\"1103\">He particularly emphasised that this process is not related to <b>financial flows<\/b>, stressing that &#8220;<strong data-start=\"994\" data-end=\"1024\">there is not even half a euro<\/strong>&#8220;, as he explained that ministers &#8220;do not sign money or anything&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1105\" data-end=\"1283\">Concluding, Halikia described the allegations as <strong data-start=\"1179\" data-end=\"1190\">&#8220;baseless&#8221;<\/strong> and &#8220;<strong data-start=\"1196\" data-end=\"1216\">completely unfounded<\/strong>&#8220;, dismissing any suggestion of irregularity in the practice.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the quote:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">Halikia (former VP OPEKEPE): &#8220;What was done through the technical solution &#8211; it&#8217;s perfectly legal. Apostolou, Arachovitis, Voridis, Livanos, Georgantas, in terms of the allocation of grazing land and the &#8220;I agree&#8221;, it is perfectly legal because the CBA says so&#8230; pic.twitter.com\/0UKmD4NBRP<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; tomanifesto.gr (@tomanifesto) April 17, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&lt;\/html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The position that the so-called &#8220;technical solution&#8221; in OPEKEPE is perfectly legal and does not contain an economic dimension, said the former vice-president &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}