Anna Diamantopoulou was at PASOK-KINAL conference long before noon, greeting and chatting with old friends and companions. Together with the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, responsible for Social Housing in Portugal, Marina Gonzalvestalked about the modern social state located at the center of the European and national dialogue and was the main topic of discussion.
The President of the Network for Reform and President of the EU High Level Group for the Reform of the Welfare State, argued that “there can be no welfare state without the support and expansion of the productive state so that we can distribute wealth fairly. “He stressed that “The conditions for the transformation of society require new ideas, new policies and necessarily new ways of cooperation between political and social forces.».
As Mr. Diamantopoulou «The mother of all change is technology. We are in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and here is our bet. The new PASOK has in front of it this bet of the future. Social democracy is the central idea for the wider space that will bring about change“, Added Ms. Diamantopoulou.
The issue of Social Housing in Portugal, a program to provide cheap housing for rent to new families, which has been put first in the public debate by PASOK-Movement for Change, was analyzed in detail by Marina Gonzalves, who was invited by President Nikos Tax Androulas exclusively for this purpose in Greece.
«The solution to the housing problem is to increase the public stock of social housing“, Stressed the Mr. Gonzalves explaining that the program is implemented with the cooperation of the local government and the financing of the Recovery Fund.
«Our purpose was to create tools to respond to the needs of the population for social housing“, He stated characteristically, while he also presented the emergency program, which concerns the consequences by him Ukraine war.
The discussion was moderated by Dimitris Mantzos, PASOK-KINAL spokesman who expressed the view that “European Social Democracy must play a key role in defending housing as a collective good». He added that “Europe’s experience is instructive and indicative of the political correlations and the way in which the welfare state perceives the forces of conservation in relation to the political forces of progress».
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