Following supportive interventions, government awaits Brussels’s time for energy crisis

By Dimitris Gatsios

Following the Prime Minister’s message to the citizens about the additional quarterly aid package for households, businesses and farmers and his specialization by the co-responsible Ministers of Finance, Energy and Rural Development, the Maximos Palace turns its attention to the next world-related landmark. upheaval in the energy market.

The “meeting” of the 27 leaders of the European Union in Brussels will have as… main menu the overall response to the wave of price increases sweeping markets and consumers, with the countries of the South creating their own pole against the so-called and “sparingly” “Member States of the North. The signal to the Commission to seek and propose to the 27 tangible proposals and solutions has already been given since the extraordinary Versailles Summit and the work of the European Council of 24 and 25 March 2020. When a total of five days of processes were required, before the European family gave the green light to the Recovery Fund in response to the suffocating pressures of the pandemic virus on economies.

The Prime Minister is preparing for tomorrow morning discussion with his counterparts from Italy, Spain and Portugal. Mario Draghi, Pedro Sanchez and Antonio Costa will meet live in Rome, a week before moving to Brussels, while Kyriakos Mitsotakis will participate via video conference in a field of exchange of views and strategy building, aimed at coordinating the four issues. energy’s. “We will demand European answers to a European problem,” the prime minister said last Friday. But also in his message yesterday, he hastened to emphasize that the unrest is international for this and its treatment can not, but be primarily, a matter of the European family. “The Commission is already working on interventions in shaping wholesale gas prices. “I hope that at the next European Council we will agree on this issue”, he stressed, capturing the positions with which Athens will arrive at the ραν meeting in Brussels.

Apart from the European issues that will be on the agenda of the Summit, which raises the curtain on its work next Thursday, what is evident from the relevant prime ministerial reports is that the government, together with the continuous support of households, businesses and farmers for as long as the energy crisis, also proposes the key signal of fiscal stability in this phase of its pursuits. With the strategy pointing in the direction of the investment stage in the first half of 2023, Kyriakos Mitsotakis pointed out that the shielding regulations serve two principles. They are targeted and in line with the prudent fiscal policy, as he described it. “From now on I hear the cries of the opposition for ‘crumbs’ and ‘social analgesia.’ We have not yet fully recovered from the ten-year financial crisis. We have not yet reached the coveted investment level. And speculators will always lurk to exploit our weakness. “temporarily pleasant, to undermine the development course of our country. We have made many sacrifices to roll back,” he noted, sending multiple messages to the domestic and international environment.