Society's needs are so many, and the need to support citizens so great, partly due to the imported and unprecendented price inflation in recent years, that "the government could not restrict itself to the traditional method of announcements during the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF)," government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis told national broadcaster ERT on Tuesday, referring to the annual policy speech by the prime minister.
"It is necessary to have a positive news story that relates to citizens more often, hopefully more often than once a month - I would say every week - whether with tax reductions or with specific measures such as those for people in uniform, overall for those in uniform, or with news like today's about the out-of-court settlements mechanism" for debts, he added.
Marinakis underlined that the government's basic priority around TIF is gradually more and more tax reductions, based on fiscal facts.