His plan PASOK With nine proposals for competitive small and medium -sized enterprises, the Nikos Androulakis In the 2nd European Entrepreneurship Conference ‘SMEs: Innovation, competitiveness and prosperity in a vulnerable economic environment’, co -organizing the Athens Chamber of Commerce and the Economistin a central hotel in Athens.
Nikos Androulakis stressed that “the media do not ask for grace, they are seeking perspective, dignity, equal treatment, respect and access to a state that will not capture them, but will empower them.”
He noted that PASOK’s goal for Greece on the next decade “is to make our country a magnet for good jobs, to ensure that productive work ensures a decent life and the prospect that our children will live better than us.”
He argued that to achieve this “a completely different economic policy is required than that implemented by the ND government for six years”. He emphasized that PASOK will fight to ensure that the benefits of growth will be distributed in terms of social justice to all its citizens and stressed that our country can achieve them with ally in small and medium -sized enterprises.
“SMEs that are the backbone of the Greek economy are being tested and the central challenge is to plan the policies needed to transform the small and medium -sized enterprises and its participation in the country’s productive restructuring,” he said.
“If we are to speak substantially about sustainable development, social cohesion and transition to a green and digital economy, we must put in the core of our national economic policy the small and medium -sized enterprises, with policies that must have a progressive sign.” He also said that “for PASOK it is a national objective to set up a national strategic development plan” Made in Greece “, utilizing all the comparative advantages we have and promoting them based on national and European funding tools.”
PASOK’s nine proposals
He emphasized that for Greek SMEs, maintaining competitiveness is a demanding project and developed the proposals of PASOK Change:
“1. Immediate application of actual arrangements for accumulated debts to tax offices and insurance funds. With 120 doses for everyone and a “haircut” of 30% for those who are consistent.
2. Second chance of dignity. Protecting the first home for those who prove to be unable to pay off their debts. Restore the 2010 PASOK law, with updated criteria and strict rules for the operation of funds, which are currently blackmailing the media.
3. Establishment of an irrelevant professional account and abolition of the unjust business fee.
4. Incentives for new recruitment, with employer contributions to social security for four years, exclusively for full -time positions.
5. Supporting the fair green transition for small: with incentives to install small scale photovoltaic panels to reduce energy costs and enhance energy autonomy.
6. New funding sources, so that the media and freelance citizens are not second -class citizens. They must end their exclusion from bank funding.
7. Balanced digital transformation. In Greece we have the second worst performance in the EU. in the digital intensity of businesses. This requires investments for the technological upgrading of small and very small businesses, with subsidies for equipment, software, training and access to broadband infrastructure.
8. Essential incentives for cooperation and mergers between small and medium -sized enterprises. These synergies are very important to create scale economies, enhance extroversion, competitiveness and facilitate access to financial tools and know -how.
9. Activation of chambers and collective bodies of professionals, with a role not decorative, but essential: in policies planning, support and counseling, in the identification of risks and opportunities. “
85% of small and medium -sized enterprises remain out of bank lending
PASOK’s president has reportedly referred to the problems that media have been facing for years. He stressed that according to the GSEVEE Small Business Institute, SMEs are facing serious liquidity problems, and in particular that one in two states that its cash is not reaching for a month, 45.4% recorded liquidity decrease in the second half of 2024 “and at the same time they are funding and funding at the same time. Chapters ».
In addition, “non -performing loans of small and medium -sized enterprises stand at 5.5%, almost twice the average. Business loans and almost three times the delays in loans to large businesses, which have 1.6%of non -performing loans. ” In addition, “their operating costs are increasing: 4 out of 10 cannot cover the cost of energy. Many businesses do not find specialized staff. And in all of this, high taxation acts as a hindrance – 8 out of 10 businesses consider taxation from the main survival problems. “
He noted that the above is confirmed by the Athens Chamber of Commerce, according to which 85% of small and medium -sized enterprises remain out of bank lending.
Depreciation of the daily effort of the small businessman
He referred to additional problems, arguing that the state, instead of being a helper, puts additional obstacles, noting that “out of the 7 billion euros of recovery loans, almost half (3.3 billion) went to just 38 companies”, that is, “the vast majority of media”. Mr Androulakis argued that “this reality is not accidental, but the result of policies that reward the concentration, power and speculation, and depreciate the daily effort of the young entrepreneur.”
He said the problem is the lack of political will to support SMEs, referring to the conditions of the draft law on the new development, on business capital adequacy. He said that most businesses should resort to borrowing from the official financial system for amounts equal to 50% of the investment, but it implies additional costs. He added that another disadvantage of the government plan in the new development framework is its complexity and therefore “the risk of the new law will operate for the benefit of the few, large and powerful companies with organized technical groups and access to support mechanisms is more than existing”.
He noted that “this unequal treatment between small and medium -sized enterprises is ultimately at the expense of the consumer”, as “multinationals in our country operate without control and without limits, resulting in the same products being sold in Greece at twice as much and three times as much as other Member States.” He announced that PASOK is taking the initiative to testify “a comprehensive framework for the control of intra -group transactions that will hit its root the evil of speculation and tax avoidance”.
In the multinational in the multicultural
Mr Androulakis accused the ND government of “leaving the multinationals unobtrusive, but targeted small and medium -sized enterprises” and that “the horizontal head tax is ‘caress’ for big tax evaders and burden on the most vulnerable freelancers.”
He attributed to the ND that although we are in the era of digital tools and the possibility of targeted inspections to combat tax evasion and tax evasion, “the government has chosen to get out of the drawer the secret agenda of decades.”
But he commented that “the ND never said pre -election that it would implement such a blind and unfair measure, but they knew how to hit PASOK which said something very simple: to increase the tax on dividends too little, for dividends over 150,000 euros when our country has the lowest tax.” He attributed the government that “they consciously chose to target the majority of professionals, but we did not see the same study of the actual skyscraper profits of strong oligopolies, as in banks.” He reminded PASOK’s proposal last November as a pressure to change bank policy. “You are hurting this policy of over -indebtedness and we were told ‘no we can’t do it’, but the Spaniards who really support the media. So, in you a horizontal tax and Pontian Pilates, the government’s gentlemen in the skyscrapers of Greece’s powerful oligopolies, “he finally commented.