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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-03-19Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>CONTENTS
[01] Greece needs a new technologically upgraded and extrovert growth model, says Econ Min PapadimitriouThe country's development plan focuses on the attraction of investments to dynamic and innovative businesses, stated Economy Minister Dimitris Papadimitriou in a statement to the Sunday edition of Ethnos newspaper."The Greek economy needs a new technologically upgraded and extrovert growth model that will promote the competitive advantages of the domestic productive networks and of the qualified human resources. It is the only way to cover the productive gap that characterises today the economy and in parallel to create new job positions in order to absorb the unprecedented unemployment that plagues the country". The minister said that "we focus on the attraction of investments to dynamic and innovative businesses in order to broaden their activities and to acquire extroversion (strengthening of exports) with aim the increase of added value and the creation of new qualitative job positions and intercept the brain drain." The positive increase of GDP is not a satisfactory indication of stabilisation. In order to have a real economic and social stabilisation we must have growth rate that after the deduction of the country's debt obligations to allow even a medium increase of the real GDP per capita. This will allow the lost ground to be covered at mid-term level, noted Papadimitriou. [02] KKE leader Koutsoumbas to ANA: Gov't has ready the new package of antipopular measuresCommunist Party (KKE) secretary general Dimitris Koutsoumbas in an interview with Athens Macedonian News Agency on Sunday said that EU-eurozone cohesion will be tried in the next period while referring to the second review of the Greek programme he stated that "SYRIZA and Independent Greeks government has ready the new antipopular package of measures it has already agreed with EU and the IMF".Koutsoumbas attributes the Turkish provocations within the context of the developments in the region in which he includes the tension of the competition between the Greek and the Turkish bourgeois. He also sent KKE's message to the Greek people for the strengthening of the popular resistance and struggle, of the social alliance against the monopolies and capitalism and the battle for socialism. [03] The crisis has become degradation, says ND's KoumoutsakosThe crisis has become degradation that the country can't stand anymore" said in an interview with the Sunday newspaper Realnews main opposition New Democracy (ND) deputy and responsible for foreign policy George Koumoutsakos."The prolonged course of the paralytic uncertainty continues, the economy is sinking and the society is in despair" he claimed and reiterated his party's request for elections underlining that it is not only linked with the endlessly expected review but it is required by the deep degradation that the country is experiencing". Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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