Energy crisis: Greece asks the EU Commission for greater fiscal flexibility

The energy crisis "has lasted longer than we expected and the next few months will be difficult". This is why Greece asks the European Commission for "further flexibility" in the economic governance framework "to allow Member States to adopt support measures for citizens and businesses, while safeguarding fiscal sustainability".

This can be read in the letter that the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mītsotakīs, addressed to the President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, a copy of which ANSA has seen.

Among other things, the prime minister of Athens asks to evaluate "the exclusion from the net expenditure indicator" of the temporary measures adopted by member states "within certain limits", taking into account "also the additional VAT revenues generated by the unexpected increase in general price inflation triggered by energy inflation", we read in the letter.