Minister of State Akis Skertsos responds to the statement by SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance MP from Chania Pavlos Polakis regarding the Thessaloniki International Fair package and the new European fiscal framework.
The Minister of State among other things states that ««Ultimately Mr. Polakis is an incorrigible nostalgic for bailouts and economic supervision of the country».
Here is Akis Skertsos’s full post:
«Ultimately Mr. Polakis, and along with him all those who propose measures costing above the spending limit allowed to each country by the new European fiscal framework in effect in the EU since 2024, is an incorrigible nostalgic for bailouts and economic supervision of the country.
Because that’s where the economic measures he proposes will take us back to, costing 7.7 billion euros, while the limit we can move within for new income support measures does not exceed 1-1.5 billion euros.
However, making the same mistake twice is not the mark of a wise man. Anyone who wants to be considered responsible must accompany every proposal for increased state spending with an equivalent proposal for permanent revenue increase, meaning taxes, or permanent spending cuts. These are the European rules. Otherwise they are lying and leading Greece back to international disrepute. And even worse, to economic unfreedom, loss of national economic sovereignty and supervision. Eight European countries, including France, Italy, Belgium, Austria, are already under European supervision for the same reason. Mr. Polakis may feel comfortable in a bailout… But he should ask the rest of the Greeks if they want to relive the economic catastrophe of the past decade.
Unfortunately, the “second time Left” and those who imitate them -or want to become like them- behave as unable to learn.
However, the Greek people suffered and learned, because they paid the most expensive tuition in their history with the apprentice sorcerers of the “first time”. And that’s why we owe them prudent and steady steps that don’t create new deficits and primarily protect the younger generations from new economic disasters».
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