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Ιn Patras and other cities and towns of Peloponnese, businessmen inf the food service sector turned off the light on Wednesday evening and m
Ιn Patras and other cities and towns of Peloponnese, businessmen inf the food service sector turned off the light on Wednesday evening and marched with candles through the streets to protest the exorbitant electricity bills. Holding banned reading “Power is killing us” and shouting slogans, they marched with the support of fellow retail businessmen and local residents.
Greece’s Environment and Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas announced on Wednesday the subsidies for electricity and natural gas that will apply in February for households and enterprises.
The subsidy for electricity will be 39 euros per MWh for households, that is 3 euros less than in January.
The subsidy for enterprises is 65 euros.
Subsidy for natural gas remains at 40 euros.
The overall cost of the support measures to offset the high cost of energy will exceed two billion euros.
Skrekas said that the price for power is 4 times higher and for natural gas 5 times higher.
The subsidy is “peanuts” as households and businesses are on the brink of a nervous-breakdown with the recent electricity bills being 3 or 4 times higher and often have a 125% surcharge called vaguely “adjustment clause.”
A neighbor, pensioner with €650 euros monthly pension, who was paying 120 euros per 2-month bill got almost a heart attack to see the latest bill at 480 euros. A friend has to pay 650 from an average around 150 euros in winter.
The owner of a grocery store in our neighborhood saw his bill double, from €2,500 to 5,000.
The pandemic has skyrocketed prices for fruits and vegetables in Greece and the hikes reach sometimes up to 200 percent.
According to data from the Athens Central Market (OKAA), from Thursday, April 2, to Tuesday, April 7, wholesale prices increased by 50% in tomatoes (from 0.50 to 0.75 euros per kilo), by 55,5% in cucumbers (from 0.45 to 0.70 euros per kilo), by 200% in cauliflower (from 0.50 to 1.50 euros per kilo), by 33% in zucchini (from 0.80 euros per kilo to 1.20 euros per kilo) and by 20% in lettuce (from 0.25 to 0.30 euros per piece).
Lemon prices have also risen by 10% (from 1 euro per kilo to 1.1 euros), oranges by 7.14% (from 0.70 to 0.75 euros), mandarins by 9, 09% (from 1.10 to 1.20 euros per kilo), strawberries by 28.57% (from 0.70 to 0.90 euros per kilo) and to thick peppers by 5% (from 1.90 euros to 2 euros per kilo).
Marketers estimate that as long as the situation is not normalized, the impact on prices will be bigger in the near future.
Producers claim that, among other things, there are difficulties in harvesting.
Prices are expected to rise also in rice, as there is a significant increase in global demand.
It is characteristic that, according to Reuters data, the price of rice has climbed to the highest levels since April 2013.
The Greek souvlaki is saved. Greece’s Competition Commission has reportedly intervene in order to stop the price increases that were apparently due as of May 1, 2019.
Responding to press reports that Greeks’ favorite fast food, the Souvlaki, will be sold at 3 euros from €2.2 currently, the Competition Commission intervened saying that setting unified prices is prohibited by law.
“Following printed and electronic media reports, that there is a possibility for price increase in the souvlaki, the Competition Commission has launched an audit in which it investigates whether the actions reported in these publications constitute infringements of the provisions of Law 3959/2011 on the Protection of Free Competition, “the Commission said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Every month, when his respiratory medicine runs out, Dionysis Assimakopoulos heads to the most unlikely pharmacy in Athens.
Amid derelict stadiums dating from the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the volunteer-staffed social pharmacy of Hellinikon has handed out free medicine to hundreds of poverty-stricken patients, keeping some of them out of death’s reach.
“My wife and I have been unemployed for over two years. We need about 150 euros for medicine every month,” says Assimakopoulos, a former baker.
Established at the height of the crisis in 2011, the pharmacy runs on donated medicine and disposables. Some 40,000 people have brought medicine, many from abroad, says on-duty pharmacist Dimitis Palakas.
Another patient waiting in line is Achilleas Papadopoulos, a retired tenor. His pension of 700 euros is not enough to cover the antibiotics he has come for.
During nearly a decade of cuts imposed as Greece struggled to avert national bankruptcy, public education and health were among the sectors hit the hardest as the country lost a quarter of its national output.
Amid sweeping layoffs, wage cuts and tax hikes, many could not maintain their social insurance contributions and were pushed out of state-provided health support.
“Only 11 percent of Greeks can currently afford private insurance giving full health coverage,” says Grigoris Sarafianos, head of the association of private Greek health clinics.
According to the national statistics service, Greeks paid 34.3 percent of their medical expenses out of their own pocket in 2016.
The crisis exposed “huge state shortages”, says Petros Boteas, a member of the Hellinikon health team, which serves over 500 patients every month.
“There are fewer doctors and hospital staff. Money for medicine has been cut. There is a long waiting list for doctor’s appointments…we had a cancer patient given an appointment in three months,” he told AFP.
The cost of 1GB of mobile data across Europe has been revealed, with Greeks paying by far the most, and Ukrainians the least.
Data gathered in 2018 from 6,313 mobile data plans shows a stark disparity between European nations.
For example 1GB cost on average €1.17 in Poland in 2018, but €6.14 in Germany. Meanwhile the French paid €2.64 compared with €5.88 in the UK. Greece has the highest cost in Europe at €28.88, with Ukrainians enjoying the lowest at just €0.45 per GB.
India is the cheapest worldwide (€0.23), while Zimbabwe has the most expensive mobile data at a whopping €66.39 per GB.
Price levels varied by almost one to three across the EU Member States
In 2017, price levels for consumer goods and services differed widely in the European Union (EU). Denmark (142% of the EU average) had the highest price level, followed by Luxembourg (127%), Ireland and Sweden (both 125%), Finland (122%) and the United Kingdom (117%). At the opposite end of the scale, the lowest price level was found in Bulgaria (48%), while Romania (52%) and Poland (56%) were just above 50% of the average.
In other words, price levels for consumer goods and services in the EU varied by almost one to three between the cheapest and the most expensive Member State.
