The president of PASOK and the Movement for Change, Nikos Androulakis, met at noon in his office in Parliament, representatives of small and medium enterprises.
He spoke successively with Giannis Chatzitheodosiou, president of the Athens Chamber of Commerce and the Central Union of Chambers of Greece, George Karanikas, president of the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship and George Kavvathas, president of the Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and Industry. President and Vice President of the Athens Chamber of Crafts.
“The New Democracy government is excluding thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises from the Recovery Fund, with the result that they, the employees, are at risk and a large part of the costs is passed on to the consumers, at a time when accuracy is running high. The aim of our proposals is to strengthen, modernize and make the Greek small and medium enterprises viable in the long run “, said Mr. Androulakis after the completion of the meetings. He pointed out that during the pandemic our country became one of the largest fiscal expansions in Europe, which exceeded 25% of GDP, but noted that “the results were not very positive in relation to the money spent. We were third in the amounts we spent in proportion to our GDP and one of the last in the recovery of the economy. “This means that the targeting and distribution of funds was wrong.”
The President of the Movement for Change stressed that “in Greece, the large category of these companies is overwhelmingly small and medium-sized, which could not be financed either by the liquidity provided by the European Central Bank or now that they are in danger of being on the sidelines of loans and Grants from the Recovery Fund “.
He accused the government, saying that “Mr. Mitsotakis’s strategy to include the Recovery Fund loans only with purchase criteria from domestic and foreign banking institutions excludes those who really need them.”
Nikos Androulakis suggested:
- to have a 120-installment adjustment with additional incentives for those who adjust their obligations to less,
- a percentage of the Recovery Fund loans to go to small and medium-sized enterprises with environmental criteria, digital modernization and incentives for synergies.
The president of PASOK-Movement for Change agreed with the representatives of the productive bodies to have regular and substantial communication in order to evaluate the economic course and the challenges faced by small and medium enterprises in the coming period.
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