Greek Government for Social Security: We promote agreement with institutions!

“We have created the conditions for an agreement with our partners, but this agreement, according the terms of August 2015, has not been signed yet,” said Deputy Minister of Social Insurance, Mr Tasos Petropoulos, speaking at the event of the Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce titled: “Can there be sustainability and adequacy of benefits in social security?”

The minister said that the risk of poverty rise by 27% in 2010 increased to over 35% in 2013.

Mr. Petropoulos talked about “difficulties in the negotiation.” “These difficulties are below a distorted treatment of the data compared with those used in other European Union countries. For example, lenders consider to be pension expense allowances paid in Greece, while in Germany and other countries the welfare benefits are not considered the pension expense. The minister said that the risk of poverty by 27% in 2010 increased by over 35% in 2013.

The minister, Mr Petropoulos, tried to blackmail the reactions of all productive organizations in the country that react to passing of a deadlock insurance bill, which will bring padlocks everywhere and unemployment and at the outset will be led to failure.

“There is no excuse within the country, to anyone who does not support this agreement, because otherwise, we can not talk about the social security system in the country with justice rules with truly universal redistributive in nature, as the Constitution requires.” he said.

PS. According to reliable information of Insurancedaily.gr the Greek government intends to bring the pension bill to a vote, before Holy Week and before the end of April.