“The fish is not baptized meat” no matter how many people try to make the day-to-night in the economy with controversial analyzes, the State Minister Akis Skrtsos points out on Facebook, noting that “things are simple”.

Following his post, the Minister of State writes:

“Reducing unemployment and public debt is progress.

Increasing employment is progress.

Increasing investment, processing, exports, deposits, remuneration, per capita consumption is progress.

Poverty reduction is progress. “

And all this, he stresses, they are not in question or interpretation. It is the real data of Eurostat and the Bank of Greece.

“Are we where we would like to be? Not yet. But we are on the right track.

We know how difficult everyday life is made in imported inflation or the prices on the roof.

The obligations and needs of each household are many and growing, and we try to support the economy’s dividend to support the income of the most vulnerable, “Mr Skertsos emphasizes, adding:” But only the comparison of the real – and only these – is telling the whole truth of 2019.

📈 GDP (billion euros)

🔴 2019: 185.2 billion euros

🔵 2024: 237.6 billion euros (+28.3%)

📉 General government debt to GDP

🔴 2019: 183.2%

🔵 2024: 153.6% (-29.6 points)

🏗️ Investments (billion euros)

🔴 2019: 20.3 billion euros

🔵 2024: 36.3 billion euros (+78.8%)

📈 Investments to GDP

🔴 2019: 11%

🔵 2024: 15.3%

👨‍🔧 Employment

🔴 2019: 3,956,100 employees

🔵 2025: 4,384,800 employees (+428,700)

Exmption

🔴 2019: 17.4%

🔵 2025: 7.9% (-9.5 units)

💶 minimum wage

🔴 2019: 650 euros

🔵 2025: 880 euros (+35.4%)

Remunes per employee (euro)

🔴 2019: 19,609 euros

🔵 2025: 22,176 euros (+13.1%)

🛒 Per capita consumption (Eurostat) as a percentage of MO. EU 27 (in purchasing power units and fixed prices 2020)

🔴 2019: 77%

🔵 2025: 81%

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 GDP per capita in purchasing power units (euro)

🔴 2019: 20,800 euros

🔵 2025: 27,800 euros (+33.7%)

💰 Household deposits (December, billion euros)

🔴 2019: 110.4 billion euros

🔵 2025: 147 billion euros (+33.1%)

🏦 Business Deposits (December, billion euros)

🔴 2019: 21.4 billion euros

🔵 2025: 44.8 billion euros (+113.7%)

⚖️ Absolute Poverty: Population percentage with material and social deprivation

🔴 2019: 15.8%

🔵 2025: 14% (-1.8)

Relevant poverty: percentage of population at risk of poverty or social exclusion.

🔴 2019: 29%

🔵 2025: 26.9% (-2.1) ».

The Minister of State concludes in his post:

“This progress of our country in a very fluid and uncertain international economic environment with unstable governments, wars and tensions in our region is a collective conquest of all of us. And it is due to the right ideas and the right policies that have been implemented in recent years. “