Everyone will have a part in this national effort and nobody will be rejected or excluded. On the contrary, national survival in our tumultuous modern times calls for national understanding between the forces of labour and the forces of production, in a context of decentralised democratic planning and institutionalised participation of all the people. As far as the European Union is concerned, we are struggling to make sure that the targets of convergence of real levels of development and of prosperity are not sacrificed to the inhuman and questionable convergence of nominal economic indices. We strongly support regional development and give priority to the revitalisation of all the frontier regions for national, economic as well as social reasons. The perception of Greece as a mere Athens-centred state must, at last, be revised, for Greece is not only Athens.
Development has an ideological content and is, par excellence, a political concept.
Strategic sectors of the economy and society must therefore not be privatised. The third nonnegotiable position of progressive development is its claim to political, economic and social democracy, expressed through the participation of the people and through democratic planning. The fourth nonnegotiable position of progressive development is that the environment, whether natural, cultural, architectural or other, is not a marketable commodity. It is a legacy to all mankind and to our nation in particular, and must be preserved at all costs for generations to come. Natural resources may be exploited, but not plundered.