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Skylakakis to SKAI: The cost of any measures has been calculated – Restrictions do not mean lockdown

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Permanent intervention for energy as “it will go up and down for years”, he announced in advance the Deputy Minister of Finance, Theodoros Skylakakis speaking on SKAI TV and the show “Unmatched”.

Mr. Skylakakis stated that in the natural gas interventions are made with a discount but also through the heating allowance, however the big problem is the accuracy in the electricity that is transferred to the other products.

“There we make an important intervention and we will continue to intervene in order to shift part of the problem in the future,” he said, explaining that part of it will be “raised” by the general government budget and part by society.

At the same time, Mr. Skylakakis stressed that there will be a significant and significant increase in the minimum wage next year.

Horror scenarios cause damage even when they do not

Regarding the possibility of restrictive measures, the deputy minister said that the decisions will be taken after Christmas, while he assured that “if health protection measures need to be taken at a higher financial cost, this has been calculated in the budget, which has a large Covid reserve.” .

“The fact that restrictive measures can be taken does not mean a lockdown of the type of the past. The “key” is what kind of pandemic we will have. “If we do not know what the pandemic we will have, we can not take action, nor terrorize the people before the facts,” he stressed.

“Terror scenarios cause damage to the economy even when they do not happen,” said Mr Skylakakis.

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