The Summit Thursday in Brussels the government's battle for a larger «trawl» in terms of the outlook for household support against persistent energy pressures. One day earlier, on 14 October, the announcements by the government staff on the support framework for heating oil which will start available the next day.
THE Kyriakos Mitsotakis It has announced for days the philosophy of intervention: active intervention in pump price, to reach 1.5-1.6 euros/litre at the start of disposal, but also a substantial reinforcement of heating allowance even up to 20%. According to his information protothema.gr, the subsidy the heating oil is expected to be 35 minutes/litre, while currently the purchase price is around EUR 1.9/litre.
The interview he gave Friday to SKAI Mitsotakis also presided over the government's priorities, in an open line with the refineries: first support for heating oil, then for the drive diesel that affects the supply chain and finally gasoline. With the scenario of withdrawing subsidies from the refineries in the latter being on the table, as the state has been withdrawing the fuel pass for unleaded.
Mitsotakis, who invests politically in crisis management and is addressed to the citizens by stressing that he is holding the steering wheel of the country's boat in the midst of turbulent waters, will be found in Brussels with a request that has started and is discussed more warmly in the European institutions: to use the additional financial space created, even to a certain extent, to support citizens.
The negotiations are made by both the Prime Minister and the president of the Eurogroup Kyriakos Pierrakakis, which had a discussion last Thursday with Vice President Valdis DobrovskysThe message from Greece to Brussels is about this: without any desire to blow up «The bank in the air» Greece calls for flexibility, not only for infrastructure projects to be financed by the activation of the exit clause adopted on Friday, but also for household consumption. Italy has submitted a similar request for budgetary flexibility.
The political debate will obviously take place at Thursday's session, with a background and Having regard to the letter from Mitsotakis to the Commission on the extra budgetary area as a result of VAT overpaymentHowever, there will still be technical discussion until such time as such could be finalized. «elasticity». Climate in favour of this was recorded by Mr Pierrakakis from several positions in the Eurogroup and not only from countries in the South.
However, the Prime Minister appeared cautious a few days ago on the SKI radio, pointing out that «I believe that we will end up securing something additional from what we have, but given the situation in the bond market, I think it will not be something that will be dramatic.».
Stability and support
In this environment that the government is entering and looking at the growing inflationary pressures, Mr Mitsotakis reverses the argument of many – and its executions New Republic – that he should have gone to elections early in the fall, in order not to have «write» damage to a difficult winter. «Just because winter is hard, we must have a stable government»On Friday, he stressed to the SKAI, while firmly convinced that the support measures for the society that the government has launched seem to be in some months' time.
Mr Mitsotakis will make the argument for stability clear, but will also try to give perspective to the next steps. By that time, of course, he is invited to manage extraordinary crises and social protests, such as the fishermen's mobilisations, with which he met on the sidelines of his tour of Halkidiki and while the government had announced the doubling of their oil subsidy.
The battle of the Euro-budget
But Mr Mitsotakis has at the summit and the battle of European Budget. There is pressure on the debate to close by the end of the year, so that the EU can prevent a possible change of government in France, but some people estimate that the negotiation may still take several months.
On the basis of its plan Commission The Greece has received 49.2 billion euros for the seven years 2028-2034: 42.9 from the general breakdown, 3.5 billion from the Migration and Asylum Fund and 2.8 billion from the Climate Fund. The Irish Presidency presents at the summit a proposal for a compromise between the positions of the «Feidols» and «Cohesion Friends» with a cut of approximately 100-200 billion, but without affecting the Greek Cohesion and Common Agricultural Policy at first sight. The Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Tasso Hatzivassiliou coordinate Greek actions with the aim of getting the country out as much as possible «intact» from hard bargaining, with quick in favour of cutting resources again the Germans.
