Greetings. Sorry, been busy with the newspaper...
To set the record straight, they arrived on the Dodecanese Pride and the objective of the jolly outing and conference was to assess the needs of isolated island communities etc.
What tends to happen is that eurocrats and central government make decisions that affect little places like ours without ever taking the trouble come and look. Hence daft ideas like subsidising sheep-farming in places where there is absolutely zip grazing to start with.