The government’s effort is for the Christmas table to be full this year and for this reason we have included products in the “Christmas basket” which are necessary to have a full festive table, stressed the Minister of Development Kostas Skrekas speaking to ERT.

He added that “we already have the first chains that have started sending the information with the prices of the products for the holiday basket that they will have this year.”

At another point, Mr. Skrekas emphasized that “we will not allow anarchy in the market” and that violators of the law will be punished and heavy fines will be imposed.

“We have lower prices or the same prices compared to last year”

By the afternoon, the prices of the Christmas basket will have been announced by all the chains, by all the supermarkets.

“In the first place we see that we have lower prices than last year or the same prices as last year. So we either have zero inflation or we have negative inflation compared to last year’s corresponding period.

Specifically, the price of lamb is reduced by 17%.

We have her slice to be in same price just like last christmas, we have the turkey to be reduced by 5%.

We have Dairy Products products as well reduced. We have the milk slightly reduced or the same price as last year depending on whether the light is full or light, the sugar is slightly reduced, the bun and the traditional king pie the same price as last year.

No increase – because in the previous period and in the previous days I heard estimates that the festive table will be increased by 20%.

This year’s festive table and pork and turkey and lamb and the rest of the essentials are either reduced or the same price” .

What did he say about Santa’s basket?

For the “Santa’s basket” that comes on December 15 Kostas Skrekas emphasized that “the toy basket, Santa’s basket that will make happy the children who are waiting so much for their gifts and the adults of course who will make the children happy, includes toys from all the categories that are included in a store which specializes in selling toys. All businesses with an annual turnover of more than one million euros are obliged, but optionally smaller shops can also make their own toy basket and offer it to their customers.”