The Minister of Development and Investment, Adonis Georgiadis, characterized the Russian invasion of Ukraine as “unacceptable”, speaking at an event at the cutting of the pie of the Economic Chamber of Central Macedonia, in Thessaloniki.
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in times like the one we live in today, does not raise any issues, nor” yes, but “” said Mr. Georgiadis and continued: “These are not tolerated. Here, we have a foreign power, Russia, which with various excuses has invaded an independent country, Ukraine, trying to understand it and control its orientation, its foreign policy, its independence. That’s completely unacceptable. “
“Greece and our government have stood from the beginning in complete solidarity with Ukraine and the just struggle of its people for independence,” Mr. Georgiadis continued, adding: “Our history allows us to always be among these peoples who are fighting. for their freedom and never with the attacking occupier, but also our interests do not allow us in any case to legitimize the possibility of a neighbor, because he disagrees with the foreign policy that his neighbor wants, to resolve their differences with weapons . “Any Greek who does not understand this thing and how dangerous it would be for Greece is really out of touch with reality.”
Mr. Georgiadis stressed that despite the repeated difficulties encountered by the current government “from the first moment”, immigration, pandemic, crises, the country “stands, not just standing”, but, compared to other countries, is doing very well He added: “As the data show, in 2021 Greece will have the second highest economic performance in all of Europe. A position that is a record in our history from the first day we joined the eurozone. “Greece had never achieved such a great performance among the other countries.”
The minister, on the fluctuations and high energy prices, stressed that despite the subsidies given by the government “about four billion a year”, it is required – as the Prime Minister put it in the European institutions – to have “European financial instruments” to provide a “pan-European solution, a pan-European response” to energy precision, in the same way as the coronavirus pandemic and the Recovery Fund.
The Minister of Development underlined that “Greece enters 2022 with forecasts and optimism for a strong economic growth”, expressing his optimism that, despite the adversities, our country will achieve “extremely good performance” and added: “The direct foreign investments in 2021 in Greece exceeded, in absolute numbers, five billion euros, which is our best performance for fifteen years by a very large margin, despite the pandemic “and added:” Our forecast in 2022 is that we will go even better , over five billion euros, maybe even over seven billion euros and so far the events of the war (in Ukraine) do not seem to have stopped this course, and the course of Greek tourism for 2022, today that we are talking, the reservations are more than ever, also there has been no reversal of this climate during these three, four days of the war “.
Mr. Georgiadis will attend tonight a party event of ND in Edessa.
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Speaking at the event of the Chamber of Commerce, Deputy Interior Minister Stavros Kalafatis stressed that, despite the difficulties and crises, economic indicators show that “Greece is changing” and that many projects in the wider region are progressing, adding: “Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and The government remains committed to the reform agenda that we have set out while launching major development projects “and about the challenges of the time due to the international crises, he said: ».
The Minister and the Deputy Minister were welcomed and greeted by the President of the Economic Chamber of Central Macedonia, Vassilis Georgiadis. The event was attended by ND MPs Costas Gioulekas, Stratos Simopoulos, Anna Efthimiou, Elena Rapti, representatives of the local government, members of the Economic Chamber, etc.
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