The weekly review of the government’s work by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on social media on Sunday began with the 6th Greece-Türkiye High-Level Cooperation Council that took place in Ankara, where the premier was accompanied by a delegation of ministers.
Speaking of his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Mitsotakis said, “With President Erdogan we had a sincere and substantine conversation on all the things that bring us closer together, but also for those that divide us. Our disagreements are real and significant. We are not underestimating them. Now, however, we can raise them without tension, with open communication channels, self-confidence, and consistent reference to International Law.”
As the premier further explained, “Greece does not seek tension, or inertia. We want a normal, functional relationship with Türkiye, with our guiding principle being national interest. Our geography has made us neighbors. In a shifting global environment, we choose stability. We are continuing the structured dialog we began in the last 2.5 years, which has brought specific, tangible results, and we are expanding the fields of collaboration. We are continuing on the path of responsibility. This is what the majority of citizens want, a Greece of national self-confidence, not one of national hysteria.”
Mitsotakis also referred among other issues to the agreement between the government and social partners on boosting collective labor agreements, which became a law of the state. “The agreement facilitates the signing and extension of collective labor agreements so that they cover a greater part of the job market. This means more security and better pay for employees, as well as a stable and predictable environment for businesses,” the PM underlined.
Speaking of the reaction to what he described as a labor-friendly bill, he accused opposition parties of hypocrisy and singled out main opposition PASOK’s “paradoxical stance of voting on all articles of the bill separately and at the same time voting down the bill in principle.” He expressed the hope that “as a political system we may at some point approach the things that truly unite us with more honesty, without inventing artificial differences, simply to pretend we are carrying out an opposite stance.”
source ANA-MPA