“Measures have been embraced by citizens, because the toughest government judge He already says that we have solid measures. And that would tell you is an innovation for the Thessaloniki International Exhibition“, Among others the Minister of National Economy and Finance Kyriakos Pierrakakis talking to SKAI for the financial measures that the prime minister announced during 89th TIF. “We have something compact that touches our national problem, which is demographic, clearly aims at the middle class, so it’s clear what we wanted to do. “

As he said, the budget space is $ 1.76 billion for 2026, which was covered whole. “The opposition interferes with the primary surplus with the surplus. With the given condition we have, the space is that – there is no euro more – then we go into an excessive deficit process, ” The Minister said characteristically, while in terms of the tax policy mix commented:

“For those who see us, they prefer money to reach them or get mediated? According to a study by the Bank of Greece, if you reduce VAT, the world reaches 19% in the short term. The opposition is shaking the goalposts, says “do it all” – we mess up the Thessaloniki International Exhibition with the Thessaloniki program. How you target 1.76 is the issue. We aimed at the biggest tax exemption in the Transition in a very structured way. “

“There was a distortion in the islands in terms of VAT. What was that? There was already a reduced VAT on 5 islands and you had the particularity of having a reduced VAT in Chios and not in Psara. This had to be resolved. Secondly, there was a specific European directive that allows the exclusion of specific islands, where there is higher shipping costs, and thus boosting businesses to a much greater extent. The peculiarity of the place is what defines our intervention, we are finally talking about small islands. “

“Our existential theme of demographic, we do not have the magic solution”

Then responded to the accuracyMr. Pierrakakis stressed that “What we can do in parallel with the checks is to strengthen the control mechanisms and to enhance the available citizens ‘income.’ while talking about whether the country will be affected by developments in Franceresponded negatively.

“The new European rule says that surpluses no longer play so much. You are negotiating expenses every year with the Commission. Here is the peculiarity: Expenditure remains constant whatever you do, because in the good year you will have a bigger surplus that will go to debt, while the bad year you have a recession will remain fixed for the economy to be stable. This is the philosophy of Europeans and that is what we will do. “

And continued by saying:

“None of us claims that here we have the magic solution in our existential issue as a country that is demographic. Taxation as a tool must recognize the national problem. From now on we will tax on children and family. In 2008 the births were about twice as much as today – so you will not solve the issue. We have to do many things together. “

‘Replay the Rebranding Tsipras’

At the same time, the minister reiterated that for the State the reset 13th-14th wage together with 13th-14th pension It would cost about 7.8 billion.

“This government prefers patriotic tax exemptions from Tsipras’ patriotic taxes. After all, patriotic taxes do not honor the patriotic. Here I hear a mixture of old slogans and a lack of imagination. The last time we heard these, the middle class was over taxed, that is, those who benefit from these measures. “

Finally, he described Alexis Tsipras’ famous rebrading. “The world does not want a violent return to yesterday“, He concluded.