“At the time of the great financial crisis, unemployment was almost 30%. Today we have the lowest unemployment of the last 17 years, “Labor and Social Security Minister Niki Kerameos told SKAI radio 100.3.

The minister stressed that “our country now has lower unemployment than Sweden, Estonia, Finland and Spain”, adding that this reduction is the result of a coordinated effort.

He said that more than three out of four employees in Greece today are full -time, while citing Eurostat data, he noted that of the 680,000 Greeks who had left the country, 420,000 have now returned.

Regarding the digital work card, she stressed that since its first application in March, there was a 637% increase in overtime.

For pensions, the minister clarified from 500 days on average to get a main pension to come out, the time required today is just 48 days on average. For supplementary pensions, it takes a few months on a case -by -case basis, but the time will be significantly reduced by the time by completing the digitization project of all of us.