Greece to Help People Pay Higher Energy Bills Through January
- Subsidy to consumers, businesses extended by a month
- Support program to cost 400 million euros for January
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Greece is extending measures designed to help households and businesses pay their power and gas bills in January as the surge in energy prices shows no sign of let up.
“The government will support households, farmers and also businesses against the global turmoil in energy prices for another month,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday. While the emphasis is on relieving households, the government wants to help businesses maintain growth and jobs, as well as avoid increases in production costs that could feed into the prices of products, he said in a televised address.