{"id":496,"date":"2024-11-22T19:38:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T19:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/mitsotakis-at-epp-youth-conference-jobs-and-security-as-top-priorities\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T19:38:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T19:38:46","slug":"mitsotakis-at-epp-youth-conference-jobs-and-security-as-top-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/mitsotakis-at-epp-youth-conference-jobs-and-security-as-top-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitsotakis at EPP Youth Conference: jobs and security as top priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1254191\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mitsotakis_EEP_-320x200.jpg?v=1732294772\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mitsotakis_EEP_-scaled.jpg?v=1732294772\" alt=\"Mitsotakis at EPP Youth Conference: jobs and security as top priorities\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mitsotakis_EEP_-960x600.jpg?v=1732294773\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>[Dimosthenis Kamsis\/InTime News]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis addressed the European People\u2019s Party Youth Conference on Friday, emphasizing the government\u2019s commitment to creating jobs for young people.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the significance of engaging with the next generation to shape effective policies, Mitsotakis highlighted that since New Democracy took office, more than 500,000 jobs have been created, and unemployment has dropped from 17.5% to under 10%. He also emphasized efforts to reverse Greece\u2019s brain drain, with 300,000 young Greeks returning home during his tenure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe achieved this while maintaining fiscal discipline and resisting the temptation to overspend,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted the need for European self-reliance in security, noting Europe\u2019s complacency and reliance on the US after Trump\u2019s re-election. He also stressed protecting citizens from burdensome policies and emphasized the transformative role of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Held in Athens, the event is organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Wilfried Martens Centre, and ONNED.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/politics\/1254191\/mitsotakis-at-epp-youth-conference-jobs-and-security-as-top-priorities\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Dimosthenis Kamsis\/InTime News] Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis addressed the European People\u2019s Party Youth Conference on Friday, emphasizing the government\u2019s commitment to creating jobs for young people. Highlighting the significance of engaging with the next generation to shape effective policies, Mitsotakis highlighted that since New Democracy took office, more than 500,000 jobs have been created, and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Mitsotakis at EPP Youth Conference: jobs and security as top priorities\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/mitsotakis-at-epp-youth-conference-jobs-and-security-as-top-priorities\/#more-496\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mitsotakis at EPP Youth Conference: jobs and security as top priorities\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mitsotakis_EEP_-960x600.jpg?v=1732294773","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}