Yannis Elafros
▸ “We will not do something, oil is a commodity”!
The interview of Okay. Mitsotakis with Actual FM and to N. Hatzinikolaou on Thursday. Whereas nearly an hour of carefree dialogue had handed and the matter was coming to an finish, N. Hatzinikolaou was compelled to return to the difficulty of punctuality, to which the prime minister had supposedly answered earlier, as apparently the station’s telephones had “dropped”. “Too many messages truly. They inform me that out of your reply they did not perceive if some new software, some new measure will likely be added to the federal government’s quiver to cope with punctuality,” says Hatzinikolaou. Apparently the listeners didn’t perceive something, as a result of Mitsotakis stated nothing. And he continued to not say, past the acquainted needs. Guarantees once more: “Properly, we’ll decide the end in two to 3 months from now. I am saying this with full honesty”…, whereas 2.5 years of loopy accuracy have handed with none substantial interventions from the federal government. “They (the listeners) are pushing, as a result of that is their problem”, factors out the director of Actual FM worriedly. “We’ll begin to see extra value reductions. I am fairly positive about it now”, says the chief of the ND, who can’t say something concrete, within the… confidence. And on the finish he throws within the following: “I emphasize, there are specific merchandise similar to oil. We will not do something about oil – I need to clarify this – as a result of oil to a big extent additionally drags meals inflation alongside. It is a marketable asset”! If the federal government of Greece cannot do something to cut back oil costs, as a result of it is on the inventory market, then what are we speaking about!
That is the federal government’s coverage and the framework inside which it operates, the framework of the absolutely liberalized market and EU laws, the place all the products very important to the folks, from meals to power, have grow to be commodities and the topic of great hypothesis from capital and multinational monopolies. The free market decides all the things and the federal government turns right into a… non-governmental group, which merely observes the rise in costs and facilitates the profitability of capital. If income are usually not damage, if this anti-people body is just not damaged, if there is no such thing as a rupture and launch from the EU jail, the waves of precision can’t be stopped.
The Fee recommends limiting public expenditure, profitable auctions and elevated taxation
On the identical time, the tightening of the EU coverage on public funds means cuts in advantages, a rise in taxation, in no case a considerable reduction. The activation by the Fee of the process to cut back the “extreme deficit” for seven EU international locations (France, Italy, Belgium, Slovakia, Malta and Eurozone members and Poland, Hungary) is a results of the activation of the EU Stability Pact. And it might Greece shouldn’t be included within the seven international locations, because of the bloody taxation imposed by the ND authorities (within the footsteps of the earlier ones), however the specter of financial shocks within the EU and elevated restrictive measures, solely constructive is just not for the Greek economic system within the fast future .
Relating to Greece, the European Fee “recommends” for 2025 “restricted will increase in internet prices”, so don’t anticipate enhanced advantages, whereas underlining that “the discount of the inventory of non-performing loans held by the banks ought to proceed, together with with the additional enchancment of e-auction processes to cut back the speed of failed auctions”. Ahead for profitable auctions, so the motto of the fee. He additionally underlines that “the self-employed tax reform” is among the many measures, which “can have a barely constructive influence on the general fiscal stability”. So, do not anticipate any main adjustments there both.
Printed in Prin newspaper on 22.6.2024
2024-06-25 08:13:39