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G. Varoufakis: Cartel, accuracy and underdevelopment are the winners of 2022

“Unfortunately, again the Greek people will pay for another memorandum government that has no plan other than debt and dry bread,” said MERA25 secretary Giannis Varoufakis, speaking in plenary during the discussion of the bill to strengthen competition.

Referring to the accuracy of the market, he said that it comes and affects society as a new form of austerity. He noted that there are large differences between cost and those prices in supermarkets. He described the way in which supermarkets operate in Greece as a trisathlion, forced cartel. With monopoly practices because there is no serious Competition Commission.

This bill, said the secretary of MERA25, brings once again the absolute zero for the strengthening of the Competition Commission. The same goes for the competition on the railways. You, said Mr. Varoufakis, do what one does in a country that wants to drown it.

Referring to the prices of gas and electricity, he said that we have a cool natural gas cartel, with three private companies and the now private PPC putting the prices on the Energy Exchange created by SYRIZA. “There is no other country in the world where the losses of producers are paid for by consumers,” he said.

He also commented on the arrival of Rafale aircraft, saying that the citizens will greet them from the balconies with our brave pilots, waving the PPC bills. He argued that these aircraft may have been purchased, but they will not be used because you do nothing if you do not have the “ok” from Washington and added that “if there was money for Rafale, there will be money for the ICU, but you you let people lose their lives without them. ”

He called on the government to remember what he was saying to them about Eastmed, who today, as he said, we have fully confirmed that this pipeline will not be built. We lost the train of the previous industrial revolution, not to miss this train of the next green one that does not pass through pipelines and mines, said Mr. Varoufakis and called on the government to see what Scotland is doing today, which is auctioning floating wind turbines and will also produce green hydrogen.

He argued that the government has no real plans for green growth, nor does it do anything about over-indebtedness. You have, he said, lower GDP and more debt. Debt to heaven and stagnant GDP. All you are showing us is that you are borrowing cheaply. The markets do not show any confidence in the Greek debt. You are simply the best customer of the speculators. Who have nothing to risk as long as Mrs. Lagarde tells them that by 2024 they will buy it for you. At some point, however, the music chairs will stop and then our people will have a chair to sit on … The current account balance is at -7% today, ie the private sector in Greece lives on loans from Europe again. It’s like you haven’t learned anything from all these years…

Regarding the determination of the minimum wage, Mr. Varoufakis said that if the government wants the employees not to lose their real income, it could be adjusted automatically, in indexation, but you want to decide which part of the minimum wage the employees will lose. the way you do the calculation, note.

Source: AMPE

Source From: Capital

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