“I’ve read your proposals; we’ll adopt any that make sense, but on some of them, Mr. Androulakis, allow me to say that at times I feel that in your rivalry with Mr. Tsipras, you’re ready to storm the Mint,” said Kyriakos Pierrakakis in response to Nikos Androulakis’s remarks in Parliament.
He countered the PASOK leader’s arguments by noting that “Greece is catching up. Greece’s real, deflated per capita GDP has increased by 13% from 2019 to 2025; the corresponding figure for Europe was 5.7%. Greece ranks eighth in the European Union in terms of real per capita household disposable income, with a 14.3% increase, compared to 6.6% for the European Union as a whole.”
Earlier, Nikos Androulakis addressed the issue of the retroactive application of the Katseli Law, arguing that it should also apply to those who missed the deadline for the debt restructuring program.
“So, it’s your choice to talk about retroactivity, but all these people—excluding the deadbeats, those who don’t pay, as you say— and put the rest—who paid for a few years but eventually couldn’t keep up—into a single repayment plan to bring them back into the program. That’s what retroactivity means: justice for all. We’re not talking about those who didn’t pay anything, as you mentioned as an example.”