PM: Government now geared towards fair growth and sustainable jobs
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
The government is gearing its efforts towards achieving fair economic growth that will create long-lasting and decent jobs, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday evening, as he introduced the government’s plan “Greece 2021: Fair growth, productive reconstruction”, at an event at the Acropolis Museum.
“The main focus now is growth and all government efforts are geared towards one strategic target: promoting fair growth,” he said. “Fair growth is a vision that has nothing to do with what meanings previous governments gave to development. Our differences with those who destroyed the country are chaotic.”
Tsipras attacked previous governments, saying what they considered as success were the “ruins they left behind” - the dwindling wages and pensions, the abolition of collective labour agreements and the relentless shrinking of the public sector.
“On the contrary, for us growth means re-integrating our economy in the global division of labor, creating an economy with productive skills, healing the wounds of the welfare state, [creating] a wide range of productive activities, cooperative schemes of social economy, entrepreneurship oriented towards the production of viable and decently paid jobs,” he said.
Commenting on the new privatization fund that will be set up, the premier said it will provide “a rational and beneficial to the public interest usage of state property and stimulate investment activity.”
Tsipras also took a moment to comment on the murder of British Labour MP Jo Cox, who was gunned down and stabbed by a man earlier on Thursday, while she was attending an event at her constituency.
“Our common enemy is all those who want to break the unity of the peoples and social forces,” he said and called on all sides “to pay homage to a politician who died unjustly and to hope she is the last victim at a time when hatred in Europe is rekindled and strengthened against sobriety and political discourse.”
