Gov't VP asks European Parliament committee's help to restore social security rights

Gazzetta team 1 Δεκεμβρίου 2015 - 21:29

Greece requested on Tuesday the active and substantial contribution of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs in its effort to restore social, labor and social security rights in the country, in a meeting between Government Vice-President Yiannis Dragasakis and a Committee delegation.

According to the Vice Presidency, Dragasakis thanked the delegation for coming to Greece, noting that the way out of the crisis passes through the protection and deepening of social rights, and not through their restriction or undermining.

He also told the delegation that after six years of recession, Greece has retreated from the European social acquis by adopting in many cases the worst practices and stressed the government’s will to reverse this situation. For this, he asked the Committee for a preventive, as well as an ex post assessment of the social impact of the implemented economic policies.

The delegation included MEPs Thomas Händel (European United Left - Nordic Green Left), Amjad Mahmood Bashir (ECR), Miapetra Kumpula-Natri (S&D) and Laura Agea (EFDD).