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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-08-07
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[01] We will safeguard the public interest, gov't VP Dragasakis says
[01] We will safeguard the public interest, gov't VP Dragasakis says
We will safeguard the public interest, stated government vice president
Yiannis Dragasakis in an interview to AMNA on Sunday. "Corruption
relations between politicians and political parties, banks and interests
in the media sector and the entire old corruption system are being
dismantled" said Dragasakis referring to the close relations of the
triangle banks-parties- media.
Asked on the changes in the banking map, the vice president underlined
that "the banks will not operate as a closed and uncontrolled system of
authority any more " and their "boards will be subjected to evaluation,
transparency and control system" adding that "the crisis has shown that
a banking system not linked with the needs of society, sooner or later,
is led to crisis which also drags together the country's economy".
On the occasion of IMF's report on the first 'rescue' programme, he
said that "it was a huge mistake to not settle the debt in 2010" and
underlined that the downgrading of the debt issue hides the intention to
stay an unsolved problem that will be used as "a mechanism for pressure
and coercion".
Asked on the key that will take the economy to a clearing and if the
recovery is visible, Dragasakis noted that the economies that recover are
those that create job positions, increase the investments and improve
the disposable income so "these factors will determine the speed and
the growth rate of the economy".
The government gives priority to the recovery of private investments "The
activation of the new Development Law as well as the specification of
the new production model and the country's new production identity along
with the establishment of the new financing growth tools are expected
to give a strong boost to the private investments" said Dragasakis .
He clarified that for the government economic growth and social
protection go hand-in-hand and underlined that today a deep reform on
the new social contract is taking place silently because each person or
group's request is not ignored but evaluated as incentive or occasion to
institute comprehensive solutions in order to become a society of rights,
responsibilities and duties, according to the new social contract that
we must establish.
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