Greece is the 10th country with the cheapest electricity and in terms of purchasing power, we are below the European average, according to a table of electricity prices for household consumers in the EU for the first half of 2025 presented by government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis. “This is the first half of 2025,” as Mr. Marinakis characteristically noted, “and Greece is the tenth country from the bottom, meaning the tenth country with the cheapest electricity. Here you have the cheapest electricity rates in Hungary, Malta, and so on – Greece is the 10th cheapest country,” the government spokesman emphasized.
Pavlos Marinakis also stressed that the government has proven it supports households and businesses.
Pavlos Marinakis: We are the country that has given the most money to businesses and households to support them through the energy crisis
“I am not aware of any increase at this moment, nor is there anything like that on the table. The last few times something like this was written, it was disproven by reality itself. We have certainly proven that in cases where we have had some increases in retail prices in the past, then the state comes and supports households and businesses to the greatest possible extent, reaching up to 100% for social tariffs, so that these increases do not pass on to citizens. But we are not there, nor is there this picture,” Mr. Marinakis stated.
“We have here a table: electricity prices for household consumers. Because we hear various things, that Greece has the most expensive electricity, and despite the fact that we live in a country where more fake news circulates than we can monitor – not only us as a government, but society itself, from the opposition and some media outlets. Here is the table. The source is Eurostat. This is the first half of 2025 and Greece is the tenth country from the bottom, meaning the tenth country with the cheapest electricity. You can see the table here. Here is the European Union average. Here is Greece. Here you have the cheapest electricity rates in Hungary, Malta, and so on – Greece is the 10th cheapest country,” the government spokesman noted.
“And because we need to do this in terms of purchasing power as well, Eurostat does this for us, and in terms of purchasing power, Greece is below the European average. There has been an issue with electricity for many years now, for obvious imported reasons. Businesses especially have been severely tested. But it is also true that we have managed with our policies to keep retail prices much lower throughout this crisis than the European average. And we are the country that has given the most money to businesses and households to support them through the energy crisis, the inflationary crisis, much of which has come from taxation moves on excess profits of related companies, energy companies. In contrast to what so-called socially sensitive governments promised for decades, the Mitsotakis government turned them into reality” he concluded.
