Kyriakos Mitsotakis participated in a panel discussion on “The ONNED of the won ideological battles, on the road to the future”.
“You don’t know how glad I am for the opportunity you have given us all to remember again the part played by ONNED in our personal path. It is a moment of great joy to meet again with old competitors and to reminisce about the beautiful moments, the difficulties. A party cannot be strong if it does not talk to the youth”, said Kyriakos Mitsotakis at an ONNED event for its 50th birthday.
The prime minister reflected on how a young person today sees the world compared to a young person of his own generation.
“Everything looked promising and I think about how much harder the road is today for a 22-year-old. Today, more than ever, involvement with the public is very important,” he pointed out.
“Other times, the very importance of an active youth organization,” the prime minister underlined.
“I think a lot of our policies are primarily about the new beard,” he continued. He noted that today unemployment is at 9.4% and among young people it has fallen below 20% when the ND found it at 40%.
“The brain drain has largely been reversed. They don’t come back out of nostalgia. They return because there are jobs, opportunities and the feeling that the country is going in the right direction”, added Mr. Mitsotakis.
The prime minister also referred to family policies, housing policies.
“These are policies that ultimately concern the youth and I fully recognize that in this complex and difficult world, we must take our own destiny and the destiny of our country into our own hands,” he added.
Regarding the establishment of non-state non-profit universities, he said that this government gave this possibility, but he emphasized that the main thing is the support of the public university.
“Degrees with value. Options that won’t just be time management at a university I don’t want. This certainty that in an ever-changing world our education does not end with a degree. The certainty we had in our own generation, in the complex world, things don’t work out exactly like this,” he added.
The Prime Minister emphasized that education is much more than the good education that a university can provide and emphasized the need for continuous education.
It is recalled that the former prime ministers, Kostas Mitsotakis and Antonis Samaras, did not attend the event.
“The biggest problem is convincing capable young people that getting involved with the public is a worthwhile option. The challenge for your generation, Konstantina, is to have the option of engaging with the public”, said Kyriakos Mitsotakis, addressing a 17-year-old girl, Konstantina Liritsi, who is a student of the 3rd Lyceum and a member of ONNED during the event for ONNED’s 50th birthday.
“Our job is to give opportunities. Let’s break the perception that it’s not worth dealing with the common people”, underlined the Prime Minister.
“There are decisions that we can take today that will affect people’s lives tomorrow”, noted Mr. Mitsotakis and emphasized: “We will hand over to the next generation a public debt much lower than what we received.”
The prime minister also referred to the “piggy bank” for the auxiliary crisis and the policies for the climate crisis.
“If we have to make difficult decisions today in order not to harm the generations tomorrow, these are difficult decisions to find a Greece much better than the one we received”, underlined Mr. Mitsotakis.
Source: Skai
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