Greece enjoys the confidence of the markets, Georgiadis says
"As a general principle, when it comes to planning how and when stores will open, all I can say at the moment is that the lifting of restrictive measures will be done in the reverse order to that in which they closed and we believe that, based on the best-case scenario, it will be possible to begin this reverse course in mid-May," Development and Investments Minister Adonis Georgiadis said in an interview with ANT1 TV on Thursday.
"None of us gets any pleasure from these measures, but they were necessary to deal with this 'storm'," he added.
"Things seem to be going well, but we must be careful," he underlined.
Georgiadis said that the government, in cooperation with the experts, is working on a timetable for the gradual lifting of the measures imposed, but noted that people's lives will not immediately go back to the way they were before, at least until a vaccine is found.
As for the economic impact of the pandemic and the pessimistic forecasts that have been made for Greece, such as those of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Georgiaidis stressed that the government has a plan and is working hard to prove them wrong, while appearing confident that it will succeed, "just as we disproved the negative forecasts regarding the course of the pandemic in our country."
Georgiadis also noted that the markets were the best judge of the country's economic course and the result of Wednesday's 7-year bond issue proved that these have confidence in Greece.
Source: ana-mna
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