Alternate Minister of Economy Stergios Pitsiorlas in an interview with the Sunday edition of Ethnos newspaper stated that "Contrary to the past, we have investments in all the productive sectors, we mostly propel an extended program of reforms that are forming a friendly-framework for investments" he said adding that we have a 10 year-record in direct foreign investments. He underlined that, until today, the government protected the first home and will continue to move in this direction. "The governement is determined to solve the non-performing loans problem in cooperation with the banks and to remove the last hurdle for building trust in the Greek economy". Referring to the pensions cut measure, he said that "those who invest in disaster were proved again wrong".