Anagnostopoulos in SKAI: Other countries approached Greece for the household basket

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What the General Secretary of Commerce Sotiris Anagnostopoulos said to SKAI

And other countries, besides France, have approached Greece for the household basket, Secretary General of Commerce Sotiris Anagnostopoulos revealed to SKAI 100.3 and Katerina Drakou.

However, he clarified that the price increases are not primarily the result of profiteering, as the main reason is international trade prices, while even domestic products are affected by raw materials that come from abroad. “We are obliged to live with the consequences of the Ukrainian war” clarified Mr. Anagnostopoulos.

Greece, he reminded, has lower inflation than the European average, but also the average on the European continent (and non-EU countries).

“There are universal checks on the market, everyone is checked. All the supermarkets have been checked, the fines that have been imposed exceed 3 million euros” pointed out the General Secretary. Trade.

The French basket

The French government is moving in the direction of creating an “anti-inflation basket”, modeled after the Greek “household basket”, AMPE reported earlier.

“We are only at the beginning of some thinking, but the idea is to work with distributors on a minimum selection of around twenty key products that they would commit to selling at the lowest possible price in the best interest of consumers,” said Olivia Gregoire, deputy minister responsible for for consumption issues. As he explained to Le Monde newspaper, “the basket will not only cover food products, but also hygiene products, such as baby diapers, which represent a large part of the budget for single-parent families.”

The French model will be very different from the Greek “household basket”, as in France the “anti-inflation basket” will not be imposed by law but will operate on a “voluntary basis” with the French government setting its framework, he points out moreover, a report on the website of the television station BFM, while the positive effects of the “household basket” in Greece in terms of the reduction or stabilization of the prices of certain goods are mentioned, finally, in a related article in the newspaper LA DEPECHE.

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