We will have a single reaction with Europe’s “27”, the prime minister stressed at the meeting of the Government Policy Council
“The Greek economy is ready to face the challenges. We did not correctly react immediately and jerk. We will fight to defend our national interests, ”said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, at the start of the meeting of the Governmental Economic Policy Council (KYSIP), referring to the sweeping duties of US President Donald.
In particular, the prime minister underlined that “it is useful to record the double role of the Economic Policy Council. On the one hand, to synchronize the actions of the productive ministries for the goals set and to chart an economic strategy for the new data. Especially after the US choice to overthrow the duties that have been in the world trade to date.
Our country records growth rates greater than the European average, jobs have increased by half a million and more. We are not at the point we want, but the conditions have been created to achieve our goals. Investments, competitiveness and extroversion will have a more crucial position in government aspirations. It is a single chain links and the increase in remuneration is linked to labor law. “
The prime minister also said that it is worth this instrument to bring life back under Kostis Hatzidakis and in particular “at this juncture that we have a overthrow of world architecture in international trade relations that began after the end of World War II. Reversing globalization of supply chains. A time with significant and unpredictable risks for every state.
The fiscal health is even more important, and there is the overall shield of society and the political stability and social cohesion that are demanded. People are still threatened by geopolitical tensions, but also shock not exogenous, such as Covid, but because of the US decision to change the rules of the game. The Greek economy is ready to face these challenges. We did not correctly react immediately and jerk. We will fight to defend our national interests. “
In closing, he said: “I want to keep the bar of expectations low, because we do not know how the US will react. There is a strong interest that concerns primary products that are exported to the US olives, oil, slice, are products that are not produced in the US at all. Imposing duties on my head has no reason. All actions related to the action of the extroversion of the economy are of great importance.
Economic relations with other forces, such as India, become very important at a time when the Greek economy must more systematically hunt for our products into other markets. I attach great importance to the support of Greek shipping. Greece has an open economy. We are alert and standing in two things: the fiscal stability that is more important today and the acceleration of reforms to improve responsibility becomes more urgent in an environment of international turmoil. “