Wealth is created by people who innovate and take risks and the purpose of the government is to create an environment that will allow them to express their creativity, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday during a visit to the offices of the tech firm MLS Multimedia SA in Thessaloniki.
He also said that supporting entrepreneurship and innovation is at the heart of the party’s economic program. “We state clearly, without asterisks and footnotes that ND is the party of entrepreneurship, the party that is here to the concept of business profit and understands that wealth is created by the private economy,” he said.
“Wealth is created by people who innovate and take risks and we ought, where possible, to ensure for these people an environment that will allow them to express their creative abilities in the most meaningful way.”
The country needs more businesses that create jobs, he continued, but for them to stand on their feet there must be a comprehensive framework of political support which unfortunately today doesn’t exist, starting from taxation and access to capital, to bureaucracy, overregulation and instability of the business environment.
Asked why he chose to visit MLS Multimedia, Mitsotakis said it is a business that innovates. “It’s a Greek company that has managed to compete directly with foreign giants in products and services, where one wouldn’t think Greece has a natural competitive advantage,” he said.
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