The Ministry of Environment and Energy responds to the opposition’s allegations regarding the decisions of the European Council through a relevant announcement.
Speaking of misleading allegations, the Ministry emphasizes that Greece was the first and only country in the EU. set up an emergency mechanism, the Energy Transition Fund (TEC), to support households and businesses from the effects of the global energy crisis, and the TEC is funded by greenhouse gas emission allowance revenues, which is paid to RES producers, as well as the surplus of the Special Account of SGIs.
“The measures taken by Greece are a substantial intervention in the electricity and gas markets and exceed 3.5 billion euros so far, taking into account the discounts of 800 million euros offered by PPC, trying to contribute to the absorption of part of the “These are the most important measures in Europe, taking into account the budgetary margins and economic size of Greece compared to the other member states,” the statement said, noting that “for the umpteenth time the opposition is trying to distort reality, European Council on the possibility of accelerating the adoption by the European Commission of exceptional measures to decouple fossil fuel prices from the price of electricity as regulated in the wholesale market “.
“Many of the proposals in the European Council conclusions, which include ways to decouple fossil fuels from electricity pricing, especially in areas with limited interconnection with the common electricity market, such as the Iberian Peninsula, carry a greater economic burden on On the contrary, the proposal of the six points submitted by the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and in particular the implementation of regulatory measures such as the imposition of a ceiling at the level of European Stock Exchanges, the joint supply of natural gas and other interventions contained in yesterday’s European Council conclusions and supported by many Member States, aims to restore balance to the gas market, tackling the root cause of the crisis without “The state budgets and therefore the taxpayers”, the announcement states, summarizing that the Government has also committed that if there are super profits from the electricity generation and supply companies in relation to the previous years, they will be taxed extravagantly at a rate of 90%.
“We call on SYRIZA not to celebrate and not to get carried away, bidding for proposals that it is unable to understand how they work and where they will be financed”, he summarizes.
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