The clash between the government and the company that is managing the investment in Skouries, aside from what one may have to say about the arguments used by either side, reveals the lack of stable rules for investments in our country. At a moment where we are desperately in need of foreign investments, we are doing everything we can to undermine this effort.
It is an undeniable fact that the left and entrepreneurship in Greece are incompatible concepts. Anyone investing was automatically branded an exploiter and profiteer. The president of TAIPED Mr. Pitsiorlas may have stated that “the Left must liberate society from statism, which is sabotaging every creative initiative in Greece” and insisted that the privatizations must be pushed forward, but government officials do not seem to be concerned.
The investment in Skouries has long been demonized and split the local community at the initiative of SYRIZA officers. So rather than try to clear the air by establishing steady financial and environmental rules, now that they are in power, they insist upon the same obsessive behavior, disregarding the overall impact of their policy.
However many problems exists and persist in this particular investment, it is absurd to not clear them up and create the impression that there is no rule of law in Greece, that investments and businesses are treated as a necessary evil. Even the Communist Party supports, in its own way, this investment and yet the government officers continue to play a game of political brinkmanship.
Let them decide the terms and conditions for investments, so that Greek and foreign businesses can know if it is in their interest and within their abilities. Everyone else is opportunism for domestic consumption that will only cause further damages.
TO VIMA
