Kyriakos Mitsotakis sent a message that the battle of price increase will continue as “speculation will not be tolerated” during his regular monthly meeting with the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

At the same time, the Prime Minister pointed out that illegal acts in universities will not be tolerated, stressing that the obvious must be done, the expulsion of students who break the law in universities.

In this regard, he called on the rectorial authorities to take responsibility, noting that “in no other country in the world would there be this kind of tolerance that is sometimes shown for such phenomena”.

The Prime Minister’s statement

Starting from the fact that “an intense month of important parliamentary interventions has come to an end”, the Prime Minister first pointed out that “our attention is focused on everyday issues.

We have discussed the problem of accuracy many times. I believe that our interventions are showing the first results without this meaning that we are stopping the effort”.

He stressed that “our interventions have caused price reductions in products, especially in baby milk, of more than 15%”, sending the message that “we will not accept speculation on an issue that concerns the vast majority of households.

The fines are significant and we will continue to carry out checks to ensure that all companies, no matter how large, apply the law.”

Kyriakos Mitsotakis also referred to security issues and Greek universities, saying “as you saw there were businesses in Athens and Thessaloniki.

Illegal acts will not be accepted and the government and the Greek police will be at the forefront of returning university departments to students so that they remain centres of knowledge and that some people inside or outside universities who want to turn them into centres of violence and areas of sterile conflicts cannot find refuge there”.

In this context, he stressed that “we also need the cooperation of the rectorate authorities who must rise to the occasion and assume their responsibilities” and pointed out that “I will say it as I feel it.

We cannot have students who repeatedly engage in such outrageous acts and the universities failing to take the obvious action of expelling them. In no other country in the world would there be the tolerance that is sometimes shown for such phenomena.”

The Prime Minister also referred to the meeting he had again with farmers and institutions of the primary sector, noting that we must strategically turn our attention to Thessaly and ways to protect it from flooding.

As he said we need to look at the issue of water resources that are dwindling despite the disaster caused by the bad weather Daniel.

We stand close to our farmers, we meet the demands that we consider fair, the prime minister added, adding that “we are discussing the permanent way of refunding the VAT so that it is done with fairer criteria and primarily benefit professional farmers.”

“We will continue to fight for the support of the Greek primary sector in Europe, recognizing that the Green Transition must be done but on the other hand expressing clear reservations about how it was launched so far because it is not possible to impose onerous obligations and make the European primary sector uncompetitive”.

Mitsotakis also referred to the changes being made in the NHS “using European resources.

I often find myself in hospitals and health centres that benefit from the resources of the Recovery Fund. We are making important interventions to say that we are building the new NHS and this is a continuous effort”.

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“I stand again on the role of the Recovery Fund as we will have European elections in a few months and it is important to highlight the positive side of Europe and how much our country benefits from European resources as we receive the highest per capita share, against sterile Euroscepticism,” the Prime Minister added.

For her part, the President of the Hellenic Republic, placed particular emphasis on the issue of health, saying that there cannot be two-tier citizens “and our fellow citizens must be equal in this matter”, assessing that the government’s interventions are in the right direction.

Furthermore, Ms. Sakellaropoulou said that “the great stake of democracy is the universal enjoyment of rights”, noting that some cannot violate the rights of others.

Finally, she referred to the European elections, saying that during her recent trip to Slovakia, she discussed about the anxiety in Europe and concluded by saying that the result of the European elections is important and in this context she wished that the forces that owe the society as a whole will prevail.