It is the umpteenth time that a series of measures is announced, which is designed to reduce bureaucracy regarding the establishment and operation of new businesses.
Let us hope that this series would stand a better chance than the previous one and will not lose its way in the maze of ministerial offices. The bureaucratic beast, which was founded on hundreds of laws and thousands of circulars, is a dangerous threat to anyone deciding to take the risk of investing in our country. Young and old business owners are forced to waste valuable working hours and days just to secure a desired permit, which in other countries – some even less developed than our own – is a matter of hours, if not minutes.
For Greece to truly enter a phase of growth and leave the crisis behind, it desperately needs to restructure its production model. It must set new priorities, the sectors where it has comparative advantages, divert resources towards these directions and obviously reduce the bureaucratic cost, in order to attract new investors.
The growth plan for the economy over the next seven years, the general directives of which are to be presented at next week’s Eurogroup, can and must be the subject of a greater discussion. This is a very convenient opportunity for our politicians, if they are truly interested in the future of our country and the new generation that is being crushed by the crisis today.
Instead of senseless electioneering and dispute, instead of this battle of the trenches and scathing accusations, let them battle each other, for all the things that matter for once; with all the ideas, arguments, creative suggestions for the economy and society that we so desperately need. Then the people can finally decide to whom and why to trust their present and future.
TO VIMA
