Greece’s government does not plan to ration electricity supply for households and businesses as other European countries like Germany have adopted, government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou said on Tuesday.
Speaking to Skai TV, Oikonomou said that the government is not planning to introduce measures for containing electricity consumption by household and businesses.
“There is nothing on the table right now, no thoughts for restriction or mandatory measures of some kind, nor does such a move seem necessary from where we’re standing,” Oikonomou stressed.
“Our task is to observe and keep note of the situation with accuracy, without panicking but also without dressing it up. There is no doubt that a difficult winter lies ahead,” the spokesman for the center-right government added.
Oikonomou assured that the government will continue taking measures to ensure that households and businesses do not feel the full impact of runaway electricity prices. He recalled the government plant to spend 2 billion euros in September alone to this end.
These subsidies, he said, will reduce the increases on electricity bills by 94% for 6 million households, by 100% for those with a social discount, by 84% for businesses and by 90% for farmers.
On his part, however, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning:
“while the government had shown its ability to raise protective barriers against the rising cost of living and energy, the funds available were not inexhaustible.”
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