{"id":6935,"date":"2026-05-22T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:48:00","slug":"finance-minister-the-growth-of-the-greek-economy-shatters-the-pasok-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=6935","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister: the growth of the Greek economy &#8220;shatters&#8221; the PASOK narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <b>Announcement<\/b> &#8211; response to <b>PASOK <\/b>released by the government on the development of the e<b>Greek economy<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, <b>released<\/b> by the Ministry of National Economy and Finance, <b>PASOK<\/b> &#8220;accuses&#8221; the government because the Greek economy, in <b>conditions of war,<\/b> continues to grow at twice the rate of the <b>Eurozone<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Even in the <b>Commission&#8217;s<\/b> pessimistic scenario, Greece is projected in 2026 to have <b>growth of 1.8%<\/b>, <b>when the eurozone average will move to just 0.9%!<\/p>\n<p>By the same logic, it adds, <b>Harilaou Trikoupis will<\/b> soon be asking for explanations because <b>investment has risen<\/b> from 11% to 17% of GDP, because unemployment has fallen to 8% from 17% (and from 27% at the heart of the crisis) and because Greece is recording the fastest debt reduction in the world. Every <b>positive indicator<\/b> for the country &#8220;<b>crumbs<\/b>&#8221; the narrative of PASOK&#8217;s <b>catastrophism.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The government is the first to <b>recognise the difficulties<\/b> and the pressure that <b>households<\/b> continue to face. That is why, the statement said, we have moved forward with new, extraordinary but <b>permanent support measures of \u20ac800 million<\/b> to strengthen society and reduce the impact of the international crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The economy and the <b>problems of citizens<\/b> require seriousness, planning and <b>responsibility<\/b>. Elements that, unfortunately, seem to be lacking from the staff of the <b>official<\/b><b>opposition<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;The government issued a statement in response to PASOK on the development of the Greek economy. According to the statement, which &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","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=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}