Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in his weekly review of the government work on Sunday, referred, among other things, to the regulations concerning the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products to minors.
He also referred to the regulation of unpaid loans of farmers and cooperatives, which, as he said, constitute a burden for the development of the agricultural sector. With the new bill of the Ministry of Rural Development, which was put out for public consultation, “the long-standing problem of bad loans of 700 cooperatives and 21,000 farmers, totaling 3.8 billion euros, will be addressed.”
A special mention was made to the new financial tool created by the government for the granting of low-interest loans, amounting to 80 million euros, to very small businesses and women’s entrepreneurship schemes as well as domestic electricity production.
“Greece is turning the page in the energy sector: for the first time in 2.5 decades, it produces more electricity than it consumes and exports the surplus. What does this mean in practice? Less dependence on energy imports, greater energy security and economic benefit for the country,” he underlined.
