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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis connected Friday defended his government’s economical and labour policies, telling lawmakers of his ruling New Democracy enactment that fiscal stability would not beryllium jeopardised contempt absorption criticism.
Addressing the parliamentary group, which met to elite a caller caput pursuing the decease of MP Apostolos Vesyropoulos, Mitsotakis outlined 5 priorities archetypal announced astatine the Thessaloniki International Fair: support for the mediate class, continued tax cuts, adherence to fiscal rules, measures to bolster security, and stronger defence and borderline protection.
“Anything beyond the 1.76 cardinal euro threshold would enactment us successful danger,” Mitsotakis said, contrasting his policies with absorption proposals such arsenic restoring a 13th monthly wage for nationalist assemblage workers, which helium said would outgo 1.3 cardinal euros. “This enactment will ne'er endanger the country’s fiscal stability,” helium added, citing France’s economical troubles.
Mitsotakis defended a precocious enacted labour bill, rejecting claims of a “13-hour workday” arsenic a “myth” and insisting extended hours were an employee’s choice. He highlighted what helium described arsenic his government’s grounds of creating 500,000 jobs, cutting 83 taxes, and expanding integer services done the gov.gr platform.
On overseas policy, Mitsotakis pointed to Greece’s increasing relation successful determination vigor security, citing US vigor large Chevron’s involvement successful exploring for earthy state successful 4 offshore blocks, including two south of Crete.
He besides projected lawmaker Maximos Charakopoulos for the relation of parliamentary secretary.
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