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SYRIZA Action on Controversial Coastline Bill

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Main opposition party SYRIZA announced that it will host an event regarding the controversial coastline bill, with party leader Alexis Tsipras scheduled to deliver a speech against government plans.
In the meatime, an initiative by the newly launched party “The River” to visit beaches in Eastern Attica will take place this weekend.
Potami party volunteers will hand out leaflets to people in beaches that will state the party’s positions on the issue. The leaflets can be easily transformed to ashtrays for people to use. This comes as an answer to the accusations of SYRIZA that Stavros Theodorakis and his party has not taken a stance on the matter.
The controversial coastline bill includes the following items:
1. All restrictions on the space that can be used for temporary infrastructures as umbrellas, sun-loungers and refreshment stands on the seafront have been removed. Previously, the law mandated 100 metre breaks of open beach between developed areas.
2. All references to the right of free access to the seashore are removed, as are restrictions on exclusive access. Effectively, the shoreline is no longer public property but can be parcelled up into private pieces of land. The only reference to public access now states that the terms of use must ensure that there is public access while taking the benefit or damage of stakeholders into account (loose translation)
3. The building of permanent structures for private profit is streamlined and legal obstacles are removed. The legislation now says only that any such seaside development must be shown to be absolutely necessary to achieve the economic goals of the venture in question. Effectively, this allows hotels to extend their development all the way down to the sealine.
4.Landfills are now allowed to further extend the shoreline for development.
5.  It opens up the possibility that structures built illegally in the past because they circumvented previous restrictions on shoreline development might  be declared legal after the fact, provided they are for commercial rather than residential use.

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