Industrialists appear split on energy cost tackling

The 2nd interministerial committee under Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis, pursuing past week’s meeting, this clip with an expanded participation, is gathering connected Thursday to trim vigor costs successful industry, with the purpose of finalizing a bundle of measures that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will denote astatine the General Assembly of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) adjacent Tuesday.

However, from the contacts that had been made until Wednesday with manufacture bodies and Deputy Minister of Energy Nikos Tsafos, it appears there will hardly beryllium immoderate definitive results. 

Although industry’s petition to trim vigor costs is common, arsenic is the petition to follow the Italian model, the way it is implemented has caused a part betwixt SEV and EVIKEN, which represents ample concern consumers of mean voltage and with which the Federation of Industries of Greece (SBE) seems to beryllium aligned.

Therefore, successful Thursday’s interministerial meeting, manufacture comes with two lines and a communal stance toward the government’s volition to grow the perimeter of the measures beyond industry, to see hotels and supermarkets.