Skertsos confirms PM’s letter to EC on multinationals

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will attempt to set in motion a European Union response to pricing policies that are driving prices in Greece higher than in richer EU countries, Minister of State Akis Skertsos confirmed in a social media post on Friday.

He said the issue of different prices for the same products that are charged by multinationals in different countries will be raised in the prime minister's letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, urging a European response to a phenomenon known as "territorial supply constraints" that is not currently considered an unfair practice.

Skertsos framed his post as a reply to questions on why the European elections are linked to high prices and why the "fight for better and fairer prices goes through Brussels and our vote on June 9," stressing that the government acknowledges that there is a problem...