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Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-05-21
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[01] PM emphasises job-creation programmes
[01] PM emphasises job-creation programmes
Preserving jobs and containing unemployment is the top priority in
government plans aimed at handling the ongoing economic crisis, Prime
Minister Costas Karamanlis emphasised during his tour on Thursday of a
Manpower Employment Organisation (OAED) office in the Alimos district
of southern coastal Athens.
"The 3.2-billion-euro national plan drawn up and already implemented
for this purpose concerns 1.35 working people and the unemployed," he
stated, pointing out that "OAED is one of the main levers for its
implementation and will finance, with 1.6 billion euros, actions
directed to wage-earners, the unemployed, small and medium sized firms
and the self-employed."
"The first 120,000 jobs of the 200,000 to be created this year are
already available. More than 10 employment and self-employment
programmes are in progress," the prime minister stated.
"Today, we create the conditions that will allow us to meet the
challenges that will emerge after the crisis," he said, pointing out
that "we invest in vocational training and retraining with an emphasis
on professions that will definitely be in demand in the near future. We
currently finance modern education programmes that will ensure a better
future for the young. Such an advanced technology programme with
three-dimensional simulation systems is being currently taught by
OAED."
"Investing in knowledge, new technology and new generation is the best
response to the challenges of the international conjuncture. Some have
chosen to invest in empty words and irresponsible promises. The
government has chosen the road of responsibility. We invest in the
truth of our work, a work that produces tangible results and lays the
foundations for a better future for all," the prime minister stressed.
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