“From the start of the energy crisis, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the government have set in motion a succession of support policies for society, with emphasis on our more vulnerable citizens. We made it clear from the start that this support will continue for as long as the crisis lasts,” government spokesperson Yiannis Economou said on Thursday, during the daily press briefing.
For this reason, he added, the government was drawing on but not exceeding the fiscal capabilities of the country, so as not to once again plunge Greece into financial problems.
At the same time, he pointed out, the fiscal margins for such help were expanding: “Simply put, our economy is making progress and we are automatically converting the fiscal results into social gains, returning every additional euro to society as it struggles in conditions of imported high prices,” he said.
Economou continued by giving a detailed breakdown of the additional support measures introduced for pensioners, debtors, farmers and society in general, saying that the seven new measures represented a combined outlay of 800 million euros.
He also referred to the results of the prime minister’s meeting with artists over arts school degrees and the announcements relating to inflation and the ‘Household Basket’.
SOURCE; ANA-MPA