“Transparency and accountability everywhere, for everyone and for everything. This is my own attitude and view, as well as the faction I have the honor of representing. Regarding Article 86 on the responsibility of ministers, the prime minister himself has said that the government’s goal is to review the next revision of the Constitution. “said the Minister of Development, Takis Theodorikakos In today’s statements to the media, answering a question about the current position of European prosecutor, Laura Covessi, to change the relevant law.
On the recovery of funds from old investment plans that were not implemented, Development Minister Takis Theodorikakos underlined: “When I went to the Ministry of Development, I found that hundreds of millions of euros had gone to companies that did not make the investments they owed. We made a promise to the citizens to take back this money. EUR 80 million has already been recovered. We prove that we are interested in transparency and accountability, because this is our obligation to society. It is a matter of honor to chase the last euro. “
For yesterday’s meeting with supermarket representativesstressed that we are giving a constant struggle for the benefit of every household. We had a strategy of pressure on supermarkets with specific initiatives all these months, expressing the social demand to contain prices. “They pledged to reduce prices to at least 1,000 product codes and this will happen in the first fortnight of October. I asked to be as many codes as possible, we want more than 1,000, but also to apply this initiative for a longer period, even after Christmas. It will apply to food, home maintenance and individual hygiene and the reductions will be over 5%. “
Referring to Fines imposed by TIMEA on large supermarket chains and intensive market controls on the market, the Minister of Development clarified: “The law is a law and all the billions of euros and if anyone has a turnover, it will be kept without exceptions. If the Minister of Development intervened to stop a fine, it would be a clear breach of duty and is something I would never do. I want to be clear: We work with the market, we support healthy entrepreneurship, the profit is legitimate, but we have to comply with the benefit of consumers. Checks will continue and concern everyone. “
Mr. Theodorikakos also stressed that “In the next few days, public consultation begins to create the new independent consumer protection authority and market surveillance. A principle that will be staffed with 300 new auditors will have modern digital tools for even more and more effective controls and will be fully operational within six months. Audit mechanisms become stronger than ever. “ While adding the intervention to “codifying and unification in a code of all the legislation on consumer protection”.