The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras presented the country’s growth plan at the Benaki Museum on Tuesday evening (May 20); he claimed that over the next four years, the government will recover the €50 billion lost since 2009, by investing in tourism, primary production, energy and research & technology. According to the premier, the above sectors could generate billions of euros in revenue and new jobs.

His plans include, inter alia, the reduction of taxes (VAT and income tax) and the creation of 770,000 new jobs.

According to Samaras’ plan, Greece will 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, and stressed that conditions would gradually improve for the average citizen.

To Vima: PM Samaras presents National Growth Plan for next seven years