Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis attends the conference on \u201cNo Deal Brexit \u2013 Preparation of Public Administration and businesses for the eventuality of a no-deal Brexit\u201d (Thessaloniki, 18 September 2019)The Foreign Ministry\u2019s Brexit conference in Thessaloniki was attended by Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kostas Fragogiannis. The event was held in the context of the Foreign Ministry\u2019s actions aimed at optimum preparation of Public Administration and businesses for the eventuality of a disorderly Brexit. Also in attendance at the conference were the head of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, Maria Antoniou, Thessaloniki Mayor Konstantinos Zervas, and representatives of the Central Macedonia Region. The event was held at the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI) and was co-organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, TCCI, the Federation of Industries of Greece (SVE) and the Exporters Association.<\/p>\n
Mr. Varvitsiotis underscored that the United Kingdom is a longstanding ally of Greece and that the Greek government will prepare as well as possible to ensure that in any event \u2013 a Brexit with an agreement or a no-deal Brexit \u2013 transactions will continue smoothly. He then stressed that Greece has already prepared Public Administration based on a \u201cRoadmap of National Actions in the event of a disorderly Brexit.\u201d The Alternate Minister presented in detail the economic and numerical data on the repercussions of a Brexit, emphasising the coming contraction of the community GDP and budget, and the volume of bilateral trade transactions, explaining how the UK\u2019s withdrawal from the Union will affect citizens and businesses. The Roadmap includes extensive interministerial coordination on 128 actions on a national level, under the supportive umbrella of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the context of the preparations for Brexit, the Greek state is making operational preparations in all sectors of the financial, commercial, political and diplomatic interests of the two countries.<\/p>\n
In closing his remarks, Mr. Varvitsiotis underscored that the needs of businesses and of the people of Macedonia and northern Greece are high among his and the Greek government\u2019s priorities. He stressed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs supports Macedonian businesses and Macedonian products and will be in ongoing contact with the market agencies of Thessaloniki, making every effort to boost their openness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis attends the conference on \u201cNo Deal Brexit \u2013 Preparation of Public Administration and businesses for the eventuality of a no-deal Brexit\u201d (Thessaloniki, 18 September 2019)The Foreign Ministry\u2019s Brexit conference in Thessaloniki was attended by Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kostas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embassy-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}