“Despite the acuteness of the problems, unemployment continues to fall, investment continues to increase and estimates for the prospects of the Greek economy remain more positive than those for almost all other EU countries. This means that we must continue to same pro-investment, modern and European way, to get results. We have only managed crises in the last three years. We have no doubt that we have at least one more year ahead where things will be difficult here and in other EU countries, but we are a government for the difficult”. This was noted by the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Kostis Hatzidakis, speaking today at the 5th Invest GR Forum, on the topic “A new Greece emerges”.
Mr. Hatzidakis recalled that, despite the difficulties of the ten-year economic crisis, the pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the energy crisis and Turkey’s ongoing provocation, 2021 closed with strong growth of 8.3%, which continued in Q1 2022, reaching 7%, with the main drivers being the rewarming of household consumption, investment and exports. At the same time, he pointed out, “unemployment decreased from 17.3%, which we received in the summer of 2019, to 12.5% ​​last April. All this, he said, is a result of the government’s overall economic policy: “The fiscal policy , which reduced taxes and made Greece an attractive investment destination. The fiscal policy, which restored international confidence in our country and leads us to an exit from the enhanced supervision and recovery of the investment grade. The licensing policy, which made it simpler to open a business in our country, contributing to the creation of new jobs. The modernization reforms in the Environment and Education. The promotion of privatizations. The digital modernization of the state! And, of course, the labor and insurance policies, which from their side also contributed to the result so far”.
The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs announced the announcement of the first training program of the Public Employment Service (PYPA), funded by the Recovery Fund, which will start in a few days. It is a training program in skills, where businesses have a shortage of staff, such as digital trade, logistics, digital marketing, but also the energy upgrade of facilities and green entrepreneurship, with a budget of 100 million euros for 80,000 beneficiaries.
As he mentioned, the training and retraining programs for workers and the unemployed, which have been included in the Recovery Fund, with funds amounting to 1 billion euros, aim, by the end of 2025, for 500,000 beneficiaries to have received a certificate of completion of a training program.
“The government”, concluded Mr. Hatzidakis, “is determined to continue on a modern and European path. “A path of common sense. The difficulties, which we are all discussing both in Greece and abroad in recent months, must make us more stubborn and more efficient! We are determined to fight the battle, not with big words and slogans, but with a system and not forgetting that the only way to keep Greece on the right path is investments, which open new jobs, to find work especially for young children and to in this way our country acquires a permanent, stable perspective. That’s what we did, that’s what we’ll continue to do from now on.”
Source: AMPE
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