The Greek Minister of Labor, Adonis Georgiadis, attacked his Spanish counterpart, Yolanda Díaz, this Sunday, after her criticism of the new Greek labor law.

“Dear Mrs. Díaz may wish to ask us for some advice on how to reduce unemployment in her country, which unfortunately is now her champion,” Georgiadis said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

Last Friday, the conservative Greek government approved a rule that allows companies to impose a sixth working day and vary employee schedules to adapt them to production needs.

The reform allows workers to voluntarily have a second job, for a maximum of five hours a day, alongside their main activity of eight hours a day, something that is not regulated in Spain.

This did not stop Yolanda Díaz from criticizing the Greek law: “Very concerned about this news that comes from Greece. This is the path of involution,” he said.

The comment did not sit well in Athens and this Sunday, they took full revenge, remembering that unemployment data is worse in Spain than in Greece.

“We received Greece in a much worse situation than Spain and today we are in a much better situation than it,” said Georgiadis, who described Díaz as “the new iron lady of Podemos.”

“Your mention gives me the opportunity to demonstrate our great ideological and political superiority with irrefutable evidence.”. Politics is applied art, not theory,” concluded the Greek minister.