Maximum subsidy of total 8 euros for electricity bills in August

The generous and “astronomical” amount of eight (8) euros is the maximum subsidy the Greek government will help households and businesses in the country to deal with the high prices in electricity in the month of August.

This is the result of calculations by main opposition party SYRIZA to the government’s announcement on August 2, to subsidize with 1.6 cents per kilowatt-hour, and this just for for the first 500 KWh.

In a statement, SYRIZA said that with this low subsidy the government is mocking the citizens and thus at the time that Greece is the EU champion in electricity prices.

“instead of taking serious measures to relieve the households and businesses that financially suffocate, the government chose once again to indulge in a crescendo of analgesia, mocking the citizens.

In practice  “the vast majority of consumers will be faced with inflated bills, while the ‘games’ of the energy companies with the wholesale price but also with the labyrinthine fluctuations of the famous blue, green and yellow tariffs continue,” SYRIZA stressed in its fierce attack to the government.

The main opposition party accused the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis that “is deliberately indifferent to the high prices in the country, in supermarkets, in open markets (the increases in fruits and vegetables are indicative), in ferry tickets, in electricity.”