Μake us preferred on Google The government yesterday announced a seven-pillar plan for industry, which among other things includes an upgrade to the operation of the Government Committee on Industry, said George Nikitiadis, PASOK MP and the party’s development policy coordinator, responding to the government’s announcements.
Nikitiadis said the party welcomes the fact that the government, after seven years in power, now believes the Government Committee on Industry’s operation needs upgrading. He added pointedly that this measure carries about as much weight as the Prime Minister’s professed anger over high prices, or his sweeping claim that the country can no longer remain a hostage to deep-state networks, political favoritism, and old-style party patronage.
He continued that the party hopes Mitsotakis, now that he has taken charge of the country, will finally do what his predecessor and namesake failed to do in seven years, referring to a country still dominated by high prices, deep-state influence, old-style party politics, and favoritism, and one that still lacks an industrial policy it is now, “finally,” set to get.
Nikitiadis added that because the government’s mockery has crossed every line, Mitsotakis owes the public an explanation: why, in seven years, he failed to shift the country’s production model onto a fairer and more sustainable footing; why he left industry at the mercy of the energy cartel; why he left industrial parks in the hands of a fund; and why, even today, after so many sacrifices by the Greek people, imports still consistently far outweigh exports.
Questions
Nikitiadis also raised questions about the prime minister’s announcements and called on the government to respond.
He said Mitsotakis must explain why the Special Spatial Planning Framework for Industry remains “under completion,” why the so-called new strategy for business parks and industrial ports is still just on paper, and why the national strategy for semiconductors is still in the planning stage. On the development law, he said the government must explain why so little funding has reached the market over seven years.
PASOK has proposed adopting the Italian model for industrial energy costs, reforming industrial zones, accelerated tax depreciation, creating a “Made in Greece” ministry, and establishing an “Angel Visa” that would grant residency to investors who direct capital toward research, innovation, startups, and productive small and medium enterprises, instead of channeling investment into real estate through the Golden Visa. The party also proposes a National Digital Transformation Fund, closer ties between research and industry, lower non-wage labor costs, and consolidation of public financing tools.
Finally, PASOK is calling on the government to answer with concrete figures
- How much has manufacturing and industry’s contribution to Greece’s GDP grown over New Democracy’s seven years in power?
- Where does Greece currently stand compared to the EU average, and how do neighboring countries such as Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania compare?
- How many new manufacturing and industrial investments were supported over the same period, what was their total value, and how much public funding was actually disbursed?
- How many of these investments involved new production facilities, and how many were located in organized business parks and industrial zones?
