At a time when Mr. Tsipras is declaring that his top priority is growth, attracting foreign investments and creating new jobs, government officials are doing all they can to undermine the growth effort. Despite the late attempts to undermine the problem with declaring Elliniko as an archeological site, this case is absolutely indicative of the confusion and irrationality of government policy.
The same goes on every time a privatization is carried out or an investment overcomes the gears of bureaucracy and ideology. We saw it with Cosco and the investment in Afantou, we see it again in the case of DESFA which has been struggling for two years, as well as the repeated attacks against the head of the TAIPED from ministers and SYRIZA officers, every time a discussion on the investments begins.
With unemployment soaring, the economy desperate for new investments, with businesses agonizing over the lack of liquidity, rather than attempt to improve the economic climate and country’s credibility, the government’s contradictory politics is discouraging even the few who dare take the risk to invest. On the one had we have the proclamations and well-wishing of the Prime Minister and on the other the screams and undermining efforts from his ministers and officers.
Mr. Tsipras must finally decide who is governing the country. Is it himself, who claims that job creating is a leftist policy or his ministers, MPs and party officers who loose their mind every time they see an investment move ahead? Because every day that goes by, without addressing the constant ambivalence, the country is sinking deeper in misery and depreciation.
TO VIMA
