I will inform the European Council about the recent intense Turkish provocation, as well as about the effects of this behavior on the stability of the Eastern Mediterranean, said the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, coming to Extraordinary summit in Brussels.
“Greece is facing these challenges with confidence and determination. “We are a country that has international law on its side, we have strong allies and of course we have invested even more in our deterrent so that we do not allow anyone to challenge our sovereignty and sovereign rights,” he continued.
The full statement of the Prime Minister:
“The first issue that will concern us at the extraordinary European Council, which starts shortly, will be the 6th package of sanctions against Russia. I believe that we are close to reaching an agreement, which will include sanctions to ban the export of oil and oil products to the European Union from Russia. I believe that the individual objections of Member States can be reduced in order to reach, in the end, the desired result.
We will also have the opportunity to discuss the very important challenges we face as the European Union in energy sector. All European Member States are currently facing very high energy prices, the result of excessively high gas prices, prices which – as I have said many times – are not justified by the laws of supply and demand.
That’s why it’s important to we bring back the discussion about a ceiling on the wholesale price of gasso that in this way we can drag down overall energy prices and of course electricity prices.
We will have the opportunity to discuss the very interesting proposals submitted by the European Commission in the framework of the new REPowerEU project, which Greece can also take advantage of, by absorbing significant additional resources from the unused loans of the Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRF).
In any case, I want to repeat that The Greek government will stand by Greek consumers, businesses, households in order to contain, as far as possible, high electricity prices.
Within the next 15 days, the relevant platform will be opened, in order to return 60% of the excessive increase that households have paid to the electricity bills since the beginning of the year. And from the beginning of July, a new electricity pricing system will be implemented, with interventions in the wholesale market, so that the adjustment clause is really neutralized and the increases in electricity prices are reasonable.
Let me remind you that last week the Greek Parliament voted to tax 90% of the super profits of wholesale electricity companies. These will also be additional resources that will be directed to our efforts to support households and businesses.
Finally, I will inform the European Council of recent intense provocation of Turkey and its impact on the stability of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Greece is facing these challenges with confidence and determination. “We are a country that has International Law on its side, we have strong allies and of course we have invested even more in our deterrent, so that we do not allow anyone to challenge our sovereignty and sovereign rights.”
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