The data announced by Eurostat on inflation, was mentioned by the Minister of Development and Investment Adonis Georgiadis, during the discussion earlier today of the bill for GEMI and the One Stop Services, in the competent parliamentary committee.
“At 12 Eurostat announced inflation for the entire eurozone. At 8% the harmonized index in Greece for March. At 2.7% the monthly increase. I always look a little more at the monthly increase, because it shows the trend. At 7.5% is the average in the eurozone – we at 8% – and at 2.5% the monthly increase – we at 2.7% “, said Adonis Georgiadis and provided comparative data on the level of inflation in March of last year.
“In March 2021 Greece was the only one in the eurozone with negative inflation, it had minus 2%. Then the eurozone average was 1.3%. +8 is from -2, so, in fact it is 6, not “So, in fact, our inflation remains well below the eurozone average of 7.5%, if we take it on an annual basis”, said the Minister of Development and insisted that “Greece is the 12th of the 19 countries “.
Mr Georgiadis called on opposition lawmakers to confront inflation figures in other eurozone countries.
“Let’s look at the inflation of the countries that are a little above us. Lithuania, 15.6%. Mitsotakis is to blame. Estonia, 14.8%. Hatzidakis, Georgiadis and Skrekas are to blame. The Netherlands, 11.9% “It’s obviously the Petsa list here. Spain, your favorite country, which you have set an example for and you tell us in every one of your speeches, 9.8%.”
“I repeat, if we put, that we had minus 2 last year, while everyone else had a plus, we are at 6 in fact. For all these governments, which have this brutal up to double of us inflation, it is Mr. Mitsotakis’s fault “Is this a serious discussion, about the biggest global crisis since World War II, by the Official Opposition?”, Said Mr. Georgiadis.
At the same time, the minister responded to the objections of the opposition parties that there is a question of adequacy of products.
“For the foreseeable future, to speak correctly, there is no question of adequacy. What will the foreseeable future say? For us, 6 to 7 months. So much so that we can have a picture of the market. If they fall nuclear tomorrow, I do not know. Anyway “Today, as we speak, for all the food materials that people get from supermarkets, there is no risk of shortage, zero, even for sunflower oil zero”, said the Minister of Development and added: “For sunflower oil there is a way to “If we direct a wider range of sunflower oil to food than to energy production, we will also increase domestic production a lot.”
SYRIZA MP Ioannis Sarakiotis had earlier denounced the absence of necessary initiatives that would prevent large increases in the market. “We tell you from the first moment, Mr. Minister, that in Greece the problem is exacerbated much more, due to your policies or, to be more precise, by the absence of initiatives on your part,” said the SYRIZA MP.
“Of course part of the inflation is imported. We agree, but the Government did the exact opposite so as not to reduce it”, said the MP of MERA25 George Logiadis and added that “the increase in food prices is much greater than the increase of the cost of their production, due to the uncontrolled operation of the market “, to observe that” accuracy has a class sign and asymmetrically affects the citizens. The more vulnerable, the more they are affected “.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
Source: Capital
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