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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-05-27
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[01] Cabinet to discuss energy issues on Wednesday
[01] Cabinet to discuss energy issues on Wednesday
An inner cabinet meeting on Wednesday will focus mainly on energy
issues, government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos said on Tuesday. He
also denied rumours of problems between the development and finance
ministries, and even within the development ministry itself, in efforts
to curb price hikes.
The government is in the process of imposing measures designed to
discourage price-gouging and unjustifiably high profits and is trying
to iron out some technical issues but there is no conflict within its
ranks, he stressed.
While not ruling out a discussion on prices by the inner cabinet - in
view of a meeting just a few days earlier between Prime Minister Costas
Karamanlis and the development ministry's leadership - Roussopoulos
said he could confirm what he said on Monday about rumoured problems
between Development Minister Christos Folias and his second-in-command
George Vlachos.
"The effort being made by both is an effort to curb profiteering and to
impose the 41 measures, which cannot, however, bring results from one
day to the next. Would that the distortions of decades could be fixed
just like that," the spokesman said.
CAPTION: File photo of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis.
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