Greece’s Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras did his best to sell a positive vision of Greece during his address to the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday.
Tsipras highlighted the facts that the Greek economy is showing a trend of growth exceeding 2%, and is accelerating, and as such feels more optimistic and vindicated.
"Today we feel we were proven right, more optimistic, but also more determined to continue the hard work awaiting us," he said, adding that "it's not just the financial indicators that confirm the beginning of the post-memoranda era, it's the social indicators as well."
“Greek debt is now sustainable, guaranteed and on a trajectory of steady depreciation," adding that his government "implemented over 450 reform actions in the economy."
"Greece is now a new economy, and this is not an exaggeration," he said, "and this has not been put across as well as it should have."
The prime minister said the proof included the following accomplishments:
"Today, nearly 3.5 months after the end of the memoranda, the government is moving on its own plan, a plan that includes many," Tsipras said. He said that "international organisations, analysts and European institutions recognise the quality work completed during the past 3.5 years."
The premier said that there was a great effort to introduce efforts that would restore the sweeping repercussions of the recession, which led a great segment of the population to the margins and to poverty.
These measures he said included the following, briefly:
As for the economy, Tsipras said, the data was encouraging, as the following indicated: