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E. Ahtsioglou – A. Haritsis: Eurostat records a new inflation record for Greece

“Preliminary data announced today by Eurostat for May, show a new inflation record at 10.7% for Greece, while the situation in our country is already dramatic. In fact, the inflation of the Eurozone reaches a height – a record 8.1 % and inflation in Greece is 2.6 points higher, the highest in all of Western Europe “, state in a joint statement the heads of Finance and Development of SYRIZA, E. Ahtsioglou and A. Haritsis, respectively.

“Households are forced to cut even their basic needs, workers see their wages constantly losing purchasing power – by April the minimum wage had lost 18%, the average wage 9.9%, the partial wage 28%, according to INE GSEE- and companies their turnover to evaporate.While the increase in production costs in industry, to an unprecedented 48.8% for April, will lead to a further deterioration of the situation.

In the face of the wave of precision that is disintegrating social cohesion, the government has been standing for months with criminal inaction. “As long as they ‘gild the pill’ by christening the super-profits of the electricity companies super-revenues and subsidizing the not-so-profitable public money, the citizens are anxious about how they will make the month,” they added in the same announcement.

concluding by noting that “The Mitsotakis government has managed to lead an entire country to despair. The sooner they leave the better for Greek society.

Source: Capital

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