Stefanos Nikolaidis

Without specific announcementsbut with a clear message of support toward industrythe prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis heralded yesterday afternoon at Mansion that ‘very soon»There will be solution for the energy costswith targeted reinforcement of operations.

Its chairman Seb; Spyros Theodoropoulosreinstated from his side the request for predictable and competitive actionas survival condition her production.

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“Soon we will come up with a solution that must have specific characteristics: to primarily support the energy -intensive industries, but also to have a wider perimeter of beneficiaries within the economic strengths of the economy.“, prime ministerspeaking to open event her General meeting of Seb.

The phrase ‘very soon»It worked as indirect signal that the final decisions are found in processing stagewith the services of Finance Ministry and Environmental to ‘weigh’ still the range and imprint of intervention. Mr Mitsotakis referred to a solution with targeted features, but without providing technical details.

The ‘Italian model’ on the table

Market sources report on to skai.gr How BSE has testified proposal based on the so -called ‘Italian model», Adapted to Greek data.

Reportedly, the frame -shaped framework is moving toward at this directionwith the final parameters to ‘lock’ next time. Target is to be alleviated the energy costs for the industrythat remains of the highest in the EU; without being disturbed or fiscal balance.

THE Kyriakos Mitsotakis he invoked the to date support measuresstressing that the government ‘stood steadily next to industry“

As he said:

  • THE industrial production index increased over 25% by the 2019; multiple rate by average her EU.
  • The aid of branch were more than doubledby 246 million euros the 2019 in EUR 530 million the 2024.
  • OR compensurizing pollutant reached over over 200 million eurosof just 53 million. the 2019.

At the same time, he stressed that the increasing penetration of RES and the transformation her Greece in net exporter will drive gradually in lower current valuescreating more stable energy environment for the industry.

Theodoropoulos Message: “The Energy of Survival”

For his part, the president of the BSE, Spyros Theodoropoulosclearly described the structural obstacles facing the Greek economy: High Energy Costs, Polynomy, Bureaucracy and slowly awarding justice.

He stressed that the Greece is still one of the countries with higher energy costs to Europea fact that ‘erodes horizontally the competitiveness of all branches and feeds inflation“

For the industry – and in particular for the energetic -, he said, access in predictable and competitive action it is’survival condition“

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The message behind the lines

OR General meeting of Seb highlighted her mutual recognition of government and business world: the government is looking for solution with budgetary realismwhile the industrial are pushing for immediate intervention that will enhance the competitiveness.

The requested now is whether the two sides will find the ‘golden incision»That will offer stability to energy costs without burdening the publicly financially.