PM Tsipras: 'Greece needs a viable, equitable social security system'
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ranked the three main issues which the government and SYRIZA will be called to tackle in the immediate future – the social security system, the refugee crisis and the restructuring of SYRIZA - during his speech at the party’s political secretariat on Wednesday.
“We are aware of the difficulties and aware of the target, which is no other than the country’s exit from the crisis, by protect the weaker social strata,” he said.
Commenting on labour reforms, the prime minister noted the need for a viable and equitable social security system, saying that “even if we didn’t have the limitations of the country’s agreement, we’d still have to tackle the problem of the system’s viability which is urgent, due to the plundering of their reserves and the high unemployment rates caused by the policies pursued in recent years."
On the ongoing refugee crisis, Tsipras noted the importance of international contacts in the forthcoming period, as well as SYRIZA’s initiatives in relation to this issue.
