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Ad. Georgiadis: The Greek economy is doing extremely well, beyond all expectations

“Greece is going through the best tourism performance of all time, the best investment period of all time, the best export period of all time. The Greek economy is doing extremely well, beyond all expectations. These have not happened by themselves,” the minister pointed out. of Development and Investments Adonis Georgiadis, speaking to ANT1.

As the minister noted, “We don’t have the highest inflation in Europe, as it is said, but we are 6th in the EU. Why has this happened? Last year, we had the lowest inflation in all of Europe. We could not have predicted that Putin would invade Ukraine. In July 2022, Greece had the biggest drop in inflation in all of Europe. We had said that in the first half of 2022 we will have high inflation, but in the second half we will have low and in the whole year the inflation will be similar to all countries of the EU”.

Fuel

“Fuel prices have fallen in line with international prices. Petrol sellers come out and only talk about the stations that sell at very low prices. There were many checks and fines were imposed during the summer for those who even briefly sold above the allowed profit margin,” said Mr. Georgiadis, adding that those who predicted that the price of a liter would reach 3 euros were not verified, but he himself who had been talking for a long time about the gradual de-escalation of prices.

Electricity bills

Regarding the increases in electricity tariffs for September, announced by the energy providers and whether the state aid to households and businesses will increase accordingly, Mr. Georgiadis said that “The Government will also be present in the new environment that is being formed for electricity prices. SYRIZA said that in Greece we have the most expensive electricity in all of Europe. Yesterday I was looking at the prices. Except for Portugal and Spain, all other countries have more expensive electricity. Now why doesn’t SYRIZA say that in Greece do we have among the lowest prices in Europe? The Greek government is introducing the biggest electricity subsidies in Europe”.

Referring personally to the president of SYRIZA, the minister said “Mr. Tsipras called me “minister of underdevelopment” in 2020, even in the Parliament. In 2021 he stopped a little and said that the growth we had was because the coronavirus crisis had passed . In 2022 we will be one of the three countries with the highest growth in Europe and we will have cumulatively higher growth than all five years of Tsipras’ Prime Ministership”.

Regarding the electricity tariffs and the package of support measures that the Prime Minister will announce at the TIF, Mr. Georgiadis said that “The good course of the economy creates more fiscal margins to support more citizens. The increases in electricity force the Government to change priorities in measures to support citizens”.

Regarding the minister’s references to electricity prices, he posted on twitter shortly after his interview with ANT1 a table (attached) noting: “The electricity prices in the EU countries that I was referring to a while ago on TV @ AntennaTV”

Wiretapping

When asked about the issue of the monitoring of Nikos Androulakis’s phone and the opposition’s argument that the discussion of the political leaders, which will take place during the week in the Parliament, concerns the quality of the Democracy, Mr. Georgiadis replied “I do not accept that the Prime Minister is a Prime Minister who threatens the Republic”.

Regarding the whole issue that has arisen after the revelations of the leader of PASOK – Movement for Change, the minister added that “there is absolutely no problem in the Government. The Government is here to solve people’s problems. The people understand what we are doing and we he trusts. Mr. Androulakis has every reason and every right to protest and to want to find out if someone was watching him and why. If the procedure was wrong, it will be seen by the Commission of Inquiry.”

Finally, referring to SYRIZA, Mr. Georgiadis added “what is considered more important: all this wiretapping or the fact that suddenly the official opposition of the country adopted all the Turkish propaganda about Evros and made propaganda against Greece?”.

Source: AMPE

Source: Capital

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