“Today we start talks to complete the first review,” Economy, Development and Tourism Minister George Stathakis announced on Wednesday.
Addressing a “Digital Economy Forum 2016 – The restart is digital”, organized by the Federation of Information Technology and Communications Enterprises (SEPE), the Minister stressed that the stabilisation of the economy, following the summer 2015 agreement, the two successful rounds of negotiations in autumn and the recapitalisation of Greek banks and completion of the first review of the Greek programme, will pave the way for a restructuring of the Greek debt and the return of the economy to growth in the second half of the year. He added that the Economy ministry will soon announce new actions in the framework of the 2014-2020 EU funds programme.
“We will announce actions for the development of partnerships and networking for supporting innovative business activity (clusters, meta-clusters). We want to create domestic chains of value that will exploit human resources in various stages of productive process,” Stathakis underlined, adding that a new development law will have the same rationale. He said that the ministry will soon table to Parliament a new regulatory framework for public procurement, unifying tender and public procurement regulations for all kind of projects, services and goods through a fully electronic framework which will allow small- and medium-sized enterprises to claim share of these markets.
Stathakis disclosed that by June and in cooperation with OECD, the ministry will present the new framework for e-transactions and that a new development plan for the country will be announced soon in agreement with the institutions.
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