By Chrysostomos Tsoufis
«If they arise money from Europethen it will be beyond and above what we have already announced and will be used to support households and businesses“, Commented government officials shortly before the Commission’s announcements about the RegenerationEU, most likely having their … fingers crossed.
Eventually extra money came in, but they can not …. become allowances. From European package of € 75 billion in grants and € 225 billion in loans for …. weaning from Russian energy, it seems according to the first information that in our country correspond to about 1 billion euros in subsidies and 5 billion euros in loans. The context of their utilization, however, is clear, since can only be directed to infrastructure. In other words, fuel cards cannot be made, but they can be made under certain conditions photovoltaics on the roofs of public buildings.
Brussels at least allowed the continuation of existing household and business support tools for the next heating season, provided that countries have their own resources.
Thus, especially for electricity, it is possible to tax and redistribute for the benefit of consumers, the extremely high revenues of energy companies. Subsidies for household and business energy bills and measures to “regulate” retail prices can also be continued as long as they do not violate the Community framework.
The Greek government is in seek resources for additional support under the pressure of rising fuel prices. For the time being, however, everyone states that the budget margins have been exhausted with the announcements that have already been made. “Breath” in revenue could give tourism for which there are expectations that it can move even better than 2019. Significant impetus – but for next year – will give the announcement next week of maintaining the escape clause for 2023. This means that the country will not have the “ζουρλομανδύα»To reach a certain amount of primary surplus and therefore in the” election “year will be able to direct resources to support households and businesses given that high energy prices will remain.
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