On Monday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis received representatives of the Larco mining firm’s employee union and exchanged views on the future of the company.

Kostis Hatzidakis, the national economy and finance minister, State Minister Akis Skertsos, Deputy National Economy and Finance Minister Thanos Petralias, the general secretary for labor relations Anna Stratinaki, and the head of the Public Employment Service (DYPA), Spiros Protopsaltis, were all present at the meeting.

The government noted the company’s long-standing problems, related to its area of activity, the burden it puts on the budget, the efforts to find an investor, as well as the support measures for employees that have already been announced. Meanwhile, the government will continue its efforts to overcome the difficulties for the successful completion of the tender that is in progress.

However, the government did not extend a situation that does not provide genuine prospects for the workers and is against the capabilities of the budget or comparable programs that the government has recently adopted in similar cases. Instead, the government made it clear that its goal is to find a solution through reliable private investors.