Europe has a duty to assume its responsibilities regarding energy and to send clear messages to the EU’s citizens, who have quite a few reasons to view Brussels with suspicion.
Setting our thermostats at a certain level and avoiding the use of appliances with high energy consumption during peak hours are steps that should be taken regardless of the war.
The current energy and inflation crises, that are expected to worsen, clearly demand bolder policies and an even greater effort by the government to address them.
There is no room for cut-backs in heating schools, and the government rightly decided to offer support to schools through municipalities, as the problem must resolved at the local and regional levels.
Mitsotakis briefed the House members on Turkey’s extreme, escalating rhetoric against Greece, underlining that Ankara’s disputing of Greece’s sovereignty over its Aegean islands is a red line,
The energy crisis is not a matter to be resolved by individual EU member-states, as it undermines and plays a decisive role in ensuring social stability in all of the Union’s countries
Europe, in opposing the Russian invasion and supporting Ukraine’s defences, is confronted with energy blackmail and threatened by Putin with a cutting off of flows of natural gas.
Given the need for fiscal discipline, government officials are pledging that both households and businesses can expect long-term assistance in dealing with inflation and the energy crisis.
There have been continual discussions in Brussels in a quest for measures that will enable member-states to guarantee energy sufficiency in the tough, upcoming winter.
The current strategy of social benefits and subsidies should be a guide for the future, especially since it is clear that the government has set aside funds for such necessary interventions.
If the average citizen is defenceless in the face of major, new economic trials, that will lower quality of life and provide fertile ground for populist and anti-politics forces.
As the weekend edition of Ta Nea reports today, the finance ministry and the tax bureau are mulling a double “bonus” for those who service their debt.
The prime minister dared. He made a difficult choice that is not in line with the tradition in Greek politics of the PM calling elections when it best suits him.
We are living in an unstable period in terms of geopolitics, energy, and the economy. There is global insecurity and uncertainty, and there is no end in sight with the war in Ukraine
'When we highlight Turkish expansionism in the Eastern Mediterranean we juxtapose it to a degree to what happened between Russia and Ukraine, 'the PM said.
As the war in Ukraine continues, one may well see the establishment of a permanent economic crisis chain, with severe pressures on Greece and all of Europe.
In the current quarter, despite an initial positive dynamic in the tourism sector, inflationary pressures and skyrocketing petrol prices already pose a great danger,
SYRIZA, however, has made only a 0.6 percentage point gain, and ND has lost one percentage point since a March Economic Barometer survey conducted by the same company..
In the current war and the resulting international political crisis, the PM adopted a clear and direct stance against the Russian invasion and its revisionist foundations.
Greece is not confronting the current crisis as a lamb to be slain. It has climbed up to Golgotha many times over the last years, and now it deserves a national resurrection.
SYRIZA’s convention was limited to a simplistic reading of new realities. It proved unable to transcend the old partisan syndrome of promises of handouts.
The intense problems that have arisen in the daily life of citizens, including price hikes on even basic products, coupled with the energy recession, are critical problems which European governments must be resolved.
While opposition parties are calling for a hike in social spending, the government is signalling that support offered to households and businesses to weather the pandemic has nearly exhausted its fiscal space.
Before the current government had a chance to even start implementing its platform, Greece and the entire world were thrust into the public health crisis wrought by the pandemic, which created its own priorities.
The invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing sanctions presage continued price gouging on products the prices of which will inevitably rise due to current conditions, such as fuel.
the leadership of the finance ministry and of the entire government must avoid any imprudent expenditure and readjust its economic policy, which must be guided by the durability of choices and fiscal discipline.
It necessary for the government to devise a package of initiatives to offer relief to the average citizen with a dividend, price cuts wherever possible, and a minimum wage increase, which it is rightly planning.
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