{"id":410732,"date":"2025-09-09T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410732\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:16:10","slug":"new-democracy-says-alleged-non-compliance-with-eu-vat-laws-is-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410732\/","title":{"rendered":"New Democracy says alleged non compliance with EU VAT laws is fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/newdemocracyoffices1234.jpg\" alt=\"New Democracy says alleged non compliance with EU VAT laws is fake news\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/newdemocracyoffices1234-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the ruling New Democracy party said that the claims that Greece has not complied with the mandatory VAT reductions imposed by the EU are \u201cfake news\u201d spread by the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>According to New Democracy, there is no \u201caccusation\u201d or \u201cfine,\u201d as alleged noncompliance would have resulted in fines and referral to the European Court of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling party claims that the opposition is deliberately linking the letter the government received regarding the incorporation of the mandatory elements of Directive 2022\/542 \u2014 with which Greece fully complied \u2014 to the VAT rates, which are exclusively under national competence according to Community law.<\/p>\n<p>In their statement, New Democracy denied these claims by citing European law. According to the party, \u201cWhat is being said about \u2018fines because we didn\u2019t reduce VAT on specific goods\u2019 is completely out of touch with reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement, the ruling New Democracy party said that the claims that Greece has not complied with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,80340,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-410732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-new-democracy","12":"tag-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115175003491249484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}