SEV calls for action to 'unlock the country's healthy forces'

Theodoros Fessas, president of the Federation of Hellenic Enterprises (SEV), on Tuesday called for joint action "to unlock the country's healthy forces and to implement the known and necessary solutions," and supported "the creation of a new framework of thinking that will focus on the convergence of values and not on ideological confrontation."

Addressing a general assembly of the Federation, Fessas said: "The country is at a point of transition that will determine its ability to meet global challenges. Knowledge, innovation, extroversion, quality, corporate responsibility, transparency, meritocracy, sustainability, are the values on which we must build to plan a better future."

Akis Skertsos, general manager of the Federation, said that in 2019, from a total 96 acts of legislation and 280 decisions voted on in Parliament that focused on business activity, about 62 pct were in line with SEV's positions, adding that more than 7,000 executives have benefited from seminars, events, scholarships and training programmes organised by SEV, while 160 schools (an increase of 33 pct) participated in SEV's "Virtual Enterprise" programme.