Pierrakakis from Eurogroup-ECOFIN: Joining forces in strategic areas

The Minister of National Economy and Finance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, volition seat tomorrow’s statement with his European counterparts connected innovation and digitalisation, arsenic portion of the informal meetings of the Eurogroup and ECOFIN Councils.

Today, from Copenhagen, entering the meeting, helium made the pursuing statement:

“We are gathering present contiguous successful the beauteous metropolis of Copenhagen for the informal ECOFIN and Eurogroup meetings to sermon a afloat scope of issues, from the instauration of the integer euro to the economical implications of geopolitical developments.

We besides met 1 twelvemonth aft the work of the Draghi report. And if determination is 1 acquisition to beryllium drawn from it, it is that we request to rise our level of ambition. We should effort to execute much than simply removing the barriers that beryllium betwixt the subordinate states of the European Union, betwixt our economies.

We indispensable besides effort to articulation forces successful strategical areas, successful integer infrastructure specified arsenic telecommunications, but besides to simplify and modernise nationalist procurement successful areas specified arsenic artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and greenish transition.

We should not conscionable effort to person a risk-managed economy. We should strive for an system that encourages innovation and promotes maturation successful 21st-century terms. And that is wholly achievable.“.