X. Staikouras: We have succeeded as a government – We are listening to society's problems

“As a government, we have achieved satisfactory results. Together with society, and with sacrifices on the part of society, we have succeeded in ensuring that the country's economy will recover strongly in 2021, that many new jobs will be created, and that unemployment will be significantly reduced.” This was the message sent by Finance Minister Christos Staikouras from Volos during a press conference.

In his initial statement, Mr. Staikouras thanked his colleagues, both in the government and in Parliament, for their collective efforts to improve all parameters and enable the country to move forward with greater security and optimism toward the future, leaving behind a series of parallel and successive crises.

The Minister of Finance said that “the main reason I am here in Volos is to listen, to hear about the problems, concerns, and anxieties of society at a historic time, and so far the government has succeeded in doing so.“.

In his special report on Magnesia, Mr. Staikouras mentioned two key points that came out of his ministry's measurements, especially that: «Over the past period, the state has helped 12,739 businesses in Magnesia, providing more than €272 million. At the end of 2021, the deposits of Magnesia residents amounted to €2.1 billion, an increase of €365 million compared to the end of 2019.» «This means,» he said, «that through an unprecedented health crisis, society and the state have managed to emerge stronger, and we will do the same in the current situation, in a new crisis, in a war, in an energy crisis. That is why the government has taken additional measures to boost citizens’ incomes, which have indeed been significantly eroded in recent times.».

Christos Staikouras, referring to the energy crisis, said that «we are intervening in energy, intervening in low pensions, intervening with a social focus, in terms of fuel, intervening in refundable advances, a total of interventions amounting to €4 billion, and in the last week alone, €1.1 billion was added to this.».

Christos Staikouras will speak at a party political event at a hotel in Volos at 7 p.m.