It would seek private-sector proposals for building infrastructure and other useful projects, and bring in private-sector panels to review them.
In any case, Miss Birbili says, the state welcomes private-sector proposals for land-based parks.For visitors to Greece, the words "windmill" and "Aegean" evoke stone buildings with white sails, like the newly rebuilt ones on Patmos (pictured).
The statutory authority should clearly define standards for the approval of private-sector proposals and establish a strong presumption that increased participation will benefit the nation through increased competition, in order to avoid the endless problems and delays of trying to satisfy imprecise regulatory requirements.
It is even odder, given that there exists a private-sector proposal to do exactly the same thing.
In a government tender issued on a procurement website, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) asks for private sector study proposals on a potential "Canada-Israel Space Mintoon" looking inthethe viability of new "maritime object localization" and broadband telecommunications payloads.
The SBIR/STTR programme's main push is to transform scientific discovery into social benefits and to emphasize private sector commercialization, so proposals must identify the beneficiaries of the technology and its potential for commercialisation.
With its willingness to contemplate selective default and ambitious targets for raising cash from the private sector, the European Commission proposal seems to be intended to appeal to Germany, which has consistently called for banks to take a substantial part of the loss.
But it is hard to find private sector examples for such proposals.
Charles Harvey, of the union Prospect, which has 102,000 public and private sector members, said: "The proposals appear to have been thrown together hurriedly.
In particular, they have noted that the bill "seems to threaten to extend responsibility for hacking from government to the private sector" and rejected "any proposals that would require companies to deliberately weaken the security of their products".
