Today, we have already exceeded 880 different codes of fast-moving consumer products, with a permanent price reduction, when the initial goal was for 500 products, said from the floor of the Parliament Minister of Development Kostas Skrekaswhile filing the duplicate collection of a fine of one million euros recently imposed in the context of market controls.

Answering a relevant topical question from the Parliamentarian of Freedom of Navigation, Elena Karageorgopoulou, Mr. Skrekas said that the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, tried to agree on the stabilization of the prices of 500 products for three months, while we have asked for the prices to be reduced for six months from suppliers! He noted that the 4,000 main product codes in supermarkets generate 90% of turnover, so the roughly 1,000 codes are one in four products. It is not a small percentage said Mr. Skrekas, also noting that in the “Household Basket” we have 70 codes: “Since the implementation of the “Household Basket”, the turnover of the products participating in the “Basket” has doubled. What does this mean; That these products are bought twice as much. [..] This helped consumers in need to access basic consumer goods.”

As for the controls on the market, and the recently imposed fines, he asked if there was a single European country that had imposed a fine, even €10,000. He even submitted to the Parliament a duplicate collection of one million euros – “why do you say that the fines are not paid, that the fines are not collected” said Mr. Skrekas. He also mentioned that all the fines that were imposed in the summer on the big chains that sold electrical appliances were paid: “So the fines are being collected and we will continue the checks until finally we see the prices start to decrease” concluded the Minister of Development.

For her part, the Member of Parliament of Plefsis Eleftherias, Eleni Karageorgopoulou, said that the very high cost of meeting daily needs, combined with the complete disproportion of wages in relation to wages in the EU, but also with corruption, mismanagement and the waste of domestic and community resources, “create a suffocating living environment” for citizens, such that it has led to Greece being in second place worldwide “in a state of depression”, with uninhabited Greenland first, in order. As he said, “the country is immersed in depression, above even war-torn Ukraine and above Palestine where parents hug their dead children.” “There you presented us with the non-existence of control of the cartels that control the market,” said Mrs. Karageorgopoulou.