■ Panagiotis Evangelopoulos
■ (Lecturer Department of Economics University of Peloponnese)
The ultimate purpose of this article is to show that the Greek statesman, Antonis Samaras, the leader of the center-right, the major opposition in Greece, firmly supports and consistently develops a free market economic strategy for emerging Greece from the crisis. The members of our European Union have to listen him and our allies and institutional partners in the west have to let our country to follow his paradigm.
In a macro-economic environment where the global public debt crisis is Keynesian, the only tried and tested way to emerge from it is to follow the approach dictated by policies of promoting the free market. In other words limiting the size of the state and the extent of its intervention to bring it into complete conformity with the requirements of supply-side economics.
Faced with the impasse of social democratic politics both internationally and in Greece, the greatest and most welcome surprise in Greece's grey and gloomy political landscape was the announcement by the President of the New Democracy party, Antonis Samaras, of his comprehensive economic proposal entitled euphemistically Zappeio II[i], which brings to the fore the most dynamic mix of a well organized free market economic policy upheld by the twin pillars of privatizations and low taxation. Zappeio II is in itself an economically free market ideological manifesto which, in conjunction with the timeless conservative traditions, principles and values of the people of Greece: integrity, hard work and ingenuity, has the potential to make the greatest contribution to effective handling of the crisis and the construction of a new state, a private-oriented economy and a dynamic community that will turn away from lowest-common-denominator leveling and acknowledge the distinction, the leadership, of the intelligent and able, who provide the only competent and effective guide for promotion of both the public and the national interest.
