Hatzidakis: Interventions to limit the cost of everyday life support trade

“The authorities supports small and medium-sized businesses with substantive policies,” emphasized Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis, speaking astatine the day lawsuit organized by the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship connected the juncture of the 20th day of the constitution of the Greek Commerce Day.

“At the aforesaid time,” helium added, “we are strengthening κοινωνικά cohesion and incomes with interventions to bounds the outgo of mundane life, such arsenic those announced astatine the TIF and past April, with policies to support lodging and with important investments successful wellness and education. So that the user has existent purchasing power, and tin support home trade connected a stable basis.”

The Deputy Prime Minister besides stressed that the reshuffle of planetary trade owed to geopolitical tensions and the daze to planetary supply chains finds Greece successful an advantageous position. “At the crossroads of three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa, with very important infrastructure, our state is becoming a strategic hub of determination and planetary scope. The strategy successful this absorption includes upgrading infrastructure (ports, airports, roads, freight centers), facilitating freight by upgrading customs and shielding supply chains from each kinds of risks.”

Creation of an further 35,500 small and medium-sized enterprises from 2019 to 2024
Presenting the initiatives to support SMEs, helium noted that they led to the instauration of an further 35,500 small and medium-sized enterprises from 2019 to 2024 and an summation successful employment by 253,000.

These initiatives include:

1. The 83 tax and publication reductions made from 2019 to date.
2. The simplification of administrative load and bureaucracy for the constitution of businesses and investments “which will beryllium escalated with a measure of the Ministry of Development successful the adjacent future”.
3. The strengthening of exports, within the model of the integrated National Strategy for Extroversion that was precocious approved.
4. The liquidity and financing tools with resources exceeding 1.5 billion, specifically aimed astatine small and medium-sized enterprises.