{"id":2181,"date":"2026-04-23T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:40:00","slug":"record-rates-of-public-debt-reduction-tables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2181","title":{"rendered":"Record rates of public debt reduction &#8211; Tables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tables showing the path of public debt, achieving the largest reduction in Europe, were presented by the government&#8217;s Pavlos Marinakis. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2025, Greece&#8217;s public debt fell by 8 percentage points, <b>recording the fastest rate of deceleration in the whole of Europe<\/b>,&#8221; the government spokesman said at a briefing for political editors. <\/p>\n<p>Previously, presenting the support measures announced yesterday by the prime minister, he noted that &#8220;<b>achieving a primary surplus allows our country to cover the costs of servicing the public debt<\/b>&#8220;. &#8220;This prudent policy, which relieves citizens of their burdens while reducing public debt at record rates, is <b>the legacy of the government of the New Democracy and Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b>,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>The tables presented by the government spokesman on the course of the debt:<\/p>\n<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"photo-2026-04-23-13-02-451.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186742\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/photo-2026-04-23-13-02-451.jpg\"> <\/figure>\n<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"photo-2026-04-23-13-02-44.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186741\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/photo-2026-04-23-13-02-44.jpg\"> <\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Previously, for our country&#8217;s impressive results in reforms, debt and unemployment was mentioned by <b>European Commissioner, Vladis Dombrovskis,<\/b> during his meeting with Prime Minister, <b>Kyriacos Mitsotakis.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As he stressed, &#8220;the Greece has a <b>strong track record<\/b> in implementing reforms and addressing the long-term structural challenges it faces, with <b>impressive results<\/b> if one looks at both debt and unemployment trends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Certifying his positive comments, he said Greece&#8217;s <b>GDP<\/b> increased by about 13.4% compared to 2018. Debt has fallen by almost 43% of GDP from its pre-COVID high in 2018. Unemployment has also fallen dramatically from a high of 28% in mid-2013 to 8.4% at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Tables showing the course of the public debt, achieving the largest reduction in Europe, presented the government&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}