FM Venizelos addresses Francophone Business Forum Conference
Government Vice-President and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos on Thursday addressed the Francophone Business Forum Conference saying he was pleased "because the slogan “Greece-France Alliance”, which passed from the defence sector in the 1970s to the culture sector today, is…extending into the sector of the economy as well.”
The minister said that during the difficult years of the Greek crisis “French businesses remained in Greece” and assured that the extrovertness of the economy is on the front line of the Greek government’s priorities.
Venizelos set the targets of the economic and trade cooperation of Greece and France, saying “we can do a great deal to strengthen French investments in Greece, to support Greek-French cooperation, the export activities of Greek enterprises in France, and the joint actions that can even further promote France’s economic relations with Greece.”
He made a special reference to the sectors of construction, tourism, transport, health, RES, water resources management and information science, saying they provide “inexhaustible potential for economic cooperation between French and Greek companies.”
On a political level, he said Greece has a comprehensive plan for exiting the memorandum and the status of being under troika monitoring, because at the end of this year the European part of the plan is coming to completion. “The government’s goal is for this plan to constitute a comprehensive agreement with our partners, including the confirmation of the sustainability of the debt, before the election of the President of the Republic,” he said.
With “strategic stability”, he added, Greece is in “the last mile of the Marathon out of the crisis” on five axes:
1. “The gradual release from the memorandum…the implementation of the national recovery plan without the troika but within the institutional framework of the European Union and the Eurozone.
2. The political and institutional stability. This begins with the protection of institutions, with the election of the President of the Republic, with the necessary consensus.
3. The protection of social cohesion
4. The consolidation of Greece’s position in Europe and the world
5. The rallying of the country’s creative forces around the national growth plan, which is an employment plan.”
Venizelos underlined that France has been a strategic partner of Greece and recalled that the visit of the French President François Hollande in February 2013 marked France’s full support for Greece’s efforts to jumpstart its economy while he made special reference to France’s participation with 30 million euros in the founding of the Greek Investment Fund (IfG).
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