Samaras' New Growth Plan Says It Will Create Hundreds Of Thousands of Jobs

While presenting the country’s growth plan at the Benaki Museum on Tuesday evening (May 20), Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras claimed that over the next four years, the government is going to recover the 50 billion Euros that were lost since 2009, by investing in sectors such as tourism, primary production, energy and research & technology.

According to him, the above sectors could generate billions in revenue and at the same time create new jobs.

Samaras said that his plans include, inter Alia, the reduction of taxes (VAT and income tax) and the creation of a whopping 770,000 new jobs.

We don't know how realistic that is, but according to Samaras’ plan, Greece is going to finally return to the pre-crisis levels of prosperity by 2020 and repeated his claim that there will be no new across-the-board measures or bailouts.

     “Until 2020, Greece will have recovered the prosperity it had before the crisis,” Samaras said, while he stressed that conditions would gradually improve for the average citizen.