ΓΡΑΦΕΙΟ ΤΥΠΟΥ ΠΡΩΘΥΠΟΥΡΓΟΥ
Σημεία
Χαιρετισμού του Πρωθυπουργού κ. Αντώνη Σαμαρά
κατά
τη συνάντηση του με τον Πρόεδρο του Κράτους του Ισραήλ κ. Shimon Peres
Well being a great leader, you have
always been a preacher of optimism and we want to thank you for this. It’s real
pleasure to be back here. I want to tell you that on the first point you put we
are not going to allow neo-Nazism in the birth-place of Democracy and we are
simply going to defend Democracy.
We came here as a “cabinet”
basically to have a G2G meeting. I have the pleasure that I’m accompanied by
Mr. Venizelos who is the leader of the socialist party, the two together, we
have formed a very strong coalition, hoping to carry on the next elections till
the end, until Greece finds itself, back to its feet as you said, after going
through thick and thin, believe me. The circumstances were difficult but we
decided, what I know we’ve also done in the past yourself to go through those
difficulties from the very beginning. Hoping that growth will come and already
we have tangible proofs that about 75% of our lost competiveness has been
gained back through huge sacrifices of the Greek people, we’ve lost more than
25% of our G.D.P. If you are to take into account taxes and inflation the
average Greek has lost about 35% of his disposable income and despite this
we’ve been clearly on our way turning the ship and I believe that we can share
your optimism in the sense that we strongly believe that we can make it.
Already the first signs, small
signs, of falling unemployment and some very small growth is taking place.
Because the number one problem, Mr. President, is the unbelievable fact that we
have reached a 27% of total unemployment in the country and more than 60% among
the youth. So, you realize that the one word we use “hope” is the most
important one. And only through growth, only through presenting investments to
Greece and only through synergies as the one we are wishing to have with Israel
is going to help. So, we had a very good and fruitful meeting. We have
different areas through which we believe…
Peres: You
had a meeting already…
Samaras: We
had the meetings on areas of foreign affairs, development, education, culture,
maritime marine and, may I specially say, energy, which is something that can
also link us together.
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