Will be retroactive in December 2024, January and February 2025
The power subsidies to small and medium -sized enterprises will be announced immediately, which will be retrospectively in December 2024, January and February 2025, as noted by Environment and Energy Minister Stavros Papastavrou in an interview with OPEN.
Mr Papastavrou added that these subsidies would exclude the businesses that have proven to be rheumatic, with their share distributing to other businesses. “It’s a matter of moral order,” he said. Referring to Greece’s maritime spatial planning, the minister stressed that this is the first time that the Greek state has delimited detailed uses of its maritime zones, implementing the obligation arising from Directive 2014/89/EU and exercising its rights.
“For the first time we come and delineate terms of fishing, cultural protection, tourism, laying the foundations for stable economy, growth, environmental protection. There is also a geopolitical dimension here, because for the first time the map of the European Union is deposited with the entire continental shelf of our country, with full influence in the mainland and in the islands, “the minister said, among other things.
At the same time, it announced that before the end of April, the Ministerial Decision will be issued to the announcement of an international competition for hydrocarbon exploration in the maritime areas “Southern Crete 1” and “Southern Crete 2”, a move that is a continuation of the acceptance of the EXPRUSEMENT.
Asked about the recent, new upgrade of the Greek economy by S&P this time, he pointed out the very importance of this development, since, as he said, “it proves the confidence of foreign investors in the country, which means investment, new jobs, better salaries, high wages.” “The government’s goal is to preserve fiscal stability, to make the daily lives of Greek citizens better and to return dividend of economic growth to them, with prudence and justice,” Papastavrou concluded.