The ongoing financial crisis in Greece reveals the weaknesses, the institutional deficits and the malfunctions of the state policies, undermining the country’s competitiveness, thus threatening social cohesion and making Greece ungovernable. If we don’t change rapidly and dramatically, then the future of the country is at stake. The crisis requires commitment to reforms, ruptures and incisions. Foremost it requires a broader consensus, as well as the cooperation of all the political and social forces who demand a different kind of Greece. In this effort ELIAMEP, IOBE, KANTOR, the Citizens Movement and Transparency International – Greece and Megaron Plus are jointly organising a series of debates on current issues, of vital importance for the country. These public discussions aim to offer concrete propositions to exit the crisis, as a result of public debate, as well as the dissemination of the conclusions through print and electronic media.
The debates will be delivered on a monthly basis. The debate of 4 October 2012, which took place at the Athens Concert Hall at 19:00, was entitled: ‘Towards an economically viable and socially equitable pension system’. Speakers were Mr. Panagis Vourloumis (former President of OTE), Professor Miltiades Nektarios (University of Piraeus, former Governor of the Social Security Foundation), Mr. Rovertos Spyropoulos (Governor of the Social Security Foundation) and Dr. Platon Tinios (University of Piraeus). The discussion was moderated by Kantor’s CEO Mr. Costas Kastrinakis.