The government is expected to announce its next initiatives to address high consumer prices on June 29, following a meeting at the prime minister’s office with representatives of the country’s largest consumer-goods market organizations.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is scheduled to meet with Spyros Theodoropoulos, president of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises; Ioannis Giotis, president of the Hellenic Food Industries Association; and Ioannis Masoutis, president of the Hellenic Supermarket Association.
The meeting comes as some emergency measures introduced in mid-March are due to expire at the end of June, while uncertainty remains over whether they will be extended. It also signals a greater government focus on rising prices, an issue that opinion surveys have identified as a leading source of public dissatisfaction.
Among the options under consideration is what Development Minister Takis Theodorikakos has described as a “national social agreement” aimed at reducing prices. The proposal resembles a voluntary arrangement between government and businesses to lower or contain prices, but would be more narrowly focused than previous efforts.
According to the plan, price reductions would target products considered important for households, based on sales data collected and analyzed by market research firms Circana and NielsenIQ.
