Greece starts recovery plan, pays initial costs itself

Moving forward: A recipient of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 in Greece. The country is looking at a successful vaccination programme as one of the drivers for growth. — AP

ATHENS: Greece is moving ahead with its programme to recover from the economic fallout of the pandemic even before initial funding arrives from the European Union (EU), according to Finance Minister Christos Staikouras.

“We are among the first countries to submit our programme and we’ve already started to implement some of the reforms and investments, ” Staikouras said in an interview.