Government says no electricity price increase planned

Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said during a briefing of governmental editors connected Thursday that Greece is not readying immoderate summation successful energy tariffs and that the authorities continues to support households and businesses.

“I americium not alert of immoderate summation astatine the moment, nor is there thing similar that connected the table,” Marinakis said, adding that past retail terms rises were met with state support, including sum of up to 100% for κοινωνικά tariffs.

He presented Eurostat information for the archetypal fractional of 2025 showing Greece arsenic the tenth cheapest state successful the European Union for household energy prices. In terms of purchasing power, Greece remains beneath the EU average, Marinakis added.

He said widespread reports of precocious energy costs are false, emphasizing that authorities policies person kept retail prices little than the European mean and provided substantial fiscal support to households and businesses during the vigor and ostentation crises.

“In opposition to what supposedly socially delicate governments person been promising for decades, the Mitsotakis authorities has enactment them into practice,” helium concluded.