Lowering taxes: Greek PM vows to pursue reforms

ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Saturday vowed to pursue reforms while gradually lowering taxes as central planks of a programme he hopes will secure victory in January 25 elections. “Our national plan ... in 2015-2021 includes reforms to boost growth and competitiveness,” the prime minister of the centre-right coalition told hundreds of ministers and supporters of his conservative New Democracy party. The prime minister praised the reform work his coalition has done over the past two and a half years to prevent Greece from leaving the Eurozone. But global markets have plunged at the beginning of last week, seized by a fresh bout of fears that Greece may be forced to abandon the euro if Syriza came to power. The far-left Syriza party wants to abandon the austerity policy imposed by the EU and IMF as part of the country’s €240-billion ($282 billion) international bailout.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 11^th, 2015.

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