Overall presented the 9 basic axes
The key points for a national upheaval plan with a 5 -year horizon was presented by the former prime minister Alexis Tsipras Speaking at the Economist conference: The Fifth Thessaloniki Metropolitan Summit.
Alexis Tsipras suggested: National Growth Funding Fund, as well as a fund to support new generations through a patriotic contribution to very high incomes.
Starting his speech, he responded to the attacks he has received lately by the government spokesman. “I admit that I had a concern, as the government’s position, announced a few days ago by its representative, is that what I say is only interested in rapists, arsonists and criminals in general. Fortunately, seeing you, I realized that my concern was unfounded, ”he commented and then thanked the conference organizers for the invitation and the attendees.
New national compass
“We need a new national compass and there is a need for all productive social classes to participate in this effort. What, in a nutshell, needs the homeland right now is a new patriotism, “said Alexis Tsipras and described the evolution and deepening of the concept of new national patriotism that had recently been mentioned.
Referring to the axes that the Greek economy must move next time, it proposes, among other things, the creation of a fund with a single priority: the support of new generations. With money raised from very high incomes through the introduction of the patriotic levy and through redistribution so that those who have contributed to the future of this place. The new generation is aimed. That is, the support of education, the research and the innovation, as well as the youth housing.
As Alexis Tsipras characteristically emphasized, “we need a new patriotism: which understands the healthy economy, the solid and modern productive model, social cohesion, trust in institutions and the state, as a condition for the security and progress of our country.”
He proposed a new productive model and his funding through the creation of a National Convergence Fund aimed at the direction and implementation of investment in strategic priority areas, public partnership with the private sector, and leverage private capital.
The 9 axes
In total, he presented the 9 main axes of the National Five -Years Horizon Plan:
– Strong and fair state,
– Change of productive model,
– Support of work,
– durability and energy security,
– demographic resilience,
– Reduce private debt,
– Technological upgrading and digital autonomy,
– redistribution and national convergence fund,
– National Security.
He also said, among other things, in his speech: “The country needs a great deal of development immediately. A shock comparable to Trikoupi and Venizelos. ” He accused the ND government of having all the responsibility for doing nothing that the economy needs and society needs, and so today, “our country is once again moving with a compass with old bankrupt recipes”. He characterized all the markers that show the progressive social and economic disintegration.
Referring to the “repeated revelations of scandals and overall about the works and days of the government, he noted that there is a huge moral issue that has become a dominant political, social and economic issue nowadays. Honesty. Because corruption that starts with government pockets erodes the state. Because the decency, which starts from Maximus, erodes confidence in the state. Because bias, the favor for our “own”, for those who have, for relatives and friends, for party agents, which starts with the executive, spreads to justice, and depreciates the state. “
Change of economic and productive model
He also noted:
– Anyone who wants to hear pleasant things can wait for tomorrow’s speech by the Prime Minister at the TIF. There, he will give his own image, made of bright colors, optimism, and some amenities. Package of benefits, I read that it will announce.
That is, it will return a part of the monstrous primary surplus, which in the first seven months reached $ 8 billion while for 2024 it was 6.4 billion euros above the target.
And the main source of this large and systematic transcendence are both indirect taxes and the income tax of natural persons – taxes that usually disproportionately impose vulnerable and medium income strata.
– I would call the policy of the government budgetary mercantilism – which accumulates resources that deprives households, businesses and the real economy to use some of them in the form of benefits and opportunistic benefits in trying to increase electoral influence. With the sole purpose of electoral clientele and voting. However, I feel that this time this option is not going to achieve its goal.
– No announcement, and no benefit, brave, or less brave, will not change the big picture for the better. Which is not only disappointing. But also ominous. And it pulls us demanding from the sleeve: there are decisions, now, that will change the roof of the boat, because we are driven to the rocks.
– They need fundamental financial change decisions, and especially a productive model.
– 7 years ago, our homeland came out of an economic and social crisis, which had taken on characteristics of a humanitarian crisis. This exit to the glade was a great opportunity for Greece to move on, without the pathogens that led to the crisis. Unfortunately, however, a missed opportunity.
– Today, our homeland is once again a compass with the old bankrupt recipes. With a completely outdated productive model, based on real estate and tourism.
– Year by year, we are moving away from the average of the European Union. Prior to the crisis, per capita income in Greece was close to 80%of the average EU. Today it is close to 60%. The average salary is less than 50% than the corresponding European, while the purchasing power is 30% lower. And inequalities are one of the main features of Greece in 2025. The oxymoron is that, after leaving the memorandums and infinitely more favorable fiscal capabilities, inequalities, instead of shrinking, are widening.
– The indicators of the social and economic disintegration are promoted to shame indicators, if one adds that: We are 24 in the 27th of the EU, in the effectiveness of the State. 25th at the speed of awarding justice. 26th in purchasing power.
Alexis Tsipras also referred to the moral issue, which he said nowadays has become a dominant political, social, but also economic issue because the corruption that starts with the government’s pockets erodes the state.
– The ND government has all the responsibility. Because he did nothing of what the economy needs and society needs.
With an extreme social bias, a Balkan I would say version of the “Trickle Down Economics”, which is pervaded by extensive corruption, builds a society that is reasonably and based on official elements and measurements, one can characterize it as a society of the gaps. A fifth society, in which the privileged one fifth has the ability to live rich, or at least with so much self -sufficiency that it can save. And on the other hand, the vast majority, four-fifths, whether they get it equally and with great difficulty, or do not go away and drown in debt. With an inflation that eliminates salary and income, not only of the weakest economics but also of the middle classes.
– The 1,300 euros of a salary today corresponds to 900 euros in 2019. That is, the salary has lost one -third of its value.
At the same time, however, that the average Greek does not go beyond, he watches the scary lucrative, which the cartels and the “big players” get. Only ten largest listed on the Stock Exchange had a record of fifteen years last year: $ 11.5 billion in total.
– The country needs a great deal of development immediately. A shock comparable to Trikoupi and Venizelos. Otherwise, it will permanently lose the train of convergence and re -find it in conditions of existential crisis.