Greek PM Mitsotakis: The Memorandum of Cooperation with the OECD is of particular importance

A memorandum of understanding for the establishment of a center of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in Crete was signed at noon at Maximos Mansion, here the PM’s office is located,, during the meeting of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with the Secretary General of the OECD, Matias Korman. The signing of the MoU coincided with the release of the OECD report on the Greek economy, according to which inflation is expected to slow to 3.7% in 2023, while the Greek economy is expected to slow significantly to 1.1%.

The establishment of the center, which is an initiative of the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, aims to highlight and analyze demographic and immigration policies, issues related to the Diaspora, as well as addressing the individual challenges related to the labor market and the population.

The new thematic center of the OECD in Crete for Population will be actively supported by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Municipality of Chania and the Economic Forum of Delphi. Their cooperation was sealed with a memorandum of understanding signed on Monday evening, in a central hotel in Athens, by the Secretary General of the OECD, Matias Korman, the Mayor of Chania, Panagiotis Simandirakis, and the President of the Delphi Economic Forum, Symeon Tsomokos. In fact, within the framework of the memorandum, the OECD, the Economic Forum of Delphi and the Municipality of Chania announced the establishment of the International Crete Conference for Dialogue on Population, which will be held annually on facilities of the Center in Crete, as well as a series of accompanying events on the individual issues concerning its priorities.

Mitsotakis: The Greek economy will be a positive surprise for Europe in 2022

The importance of the signing of the memorandum of understanding between the Greek government and the OECD for the creation of the Organization’s center in Crete was underlined by the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in his statements after the meeting he had with the Secretary General of the OECD, Matias Korman, at the PM’s office at the Maximos Mansion. The prime minister noted that a better place than our country could not be chosen for the study of populations, since, as he said, Greece received about one million Eastern Greeks in 1922, while today they are from the member states of the European Union , which deal with the immigration issue, which, in addition to being a field of miserable human trafficking, often becomes a tool for political and state expediency. In this context, Mr. Mitsotakis reminded that Greece defends the external borders of Europe.

The prime minister also referred to the OECD report on Greece, saying that despite the fact that 2022 was a difficult year due to the energy crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the conclusion of the report is noteworthy that “during these troubled times, the Greek economy exceeded the expectations and the very forecasts made by the Organization and proved to be the positive surprise of Europe on many fronts”.

For his part, Mr. Korman underlined that “the Greek economy is on the right track and must remain so” referring to the findings of the regular OECD report on economic developments in Greece. G.G. of the Organization concluded that the disruptive changes of the last few years have borne fruit, giving particular emphasis to the Romanian growth, as he characterized it, as well as to the significant de-escalation of unemployment.