SYRIZA slams Mitsotakis for empty promises following EU summit

SYRIZA denounced Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for returning from the recent EU summit empty-handed, while continuing to make ungrounded statements about forthcoming EU action on the energy crisis. The party criticized his comments that rising heating-oil costs are tolerable and that the government will "keep forces" for tougher times, interpreting them as a refusal to intervene on fuel prices. SYRIZA-PS has submitted a bill to address price spikes, suggested amendments to cap refinery profits and reduce the special consumption tax on transport and heating fuels, and called for a parliamentary inquiry into red-loan securitisations and the Hercules plan. The opposition argues the government has spent eight years serving cartels rather than protecting ordinary citizens.