Swiss consumers don’t need govt help to cope with inflation -finance minister

Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer attends a news convention in Vienna, Austria August 25, 2020. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

ZURICH, May perhaps 25 (Reuters) – Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer dominated out government guidance for shoppers hit by significant strength price ranges and explained spending budget cuts could be needed due to the fact the authorities would not increase taxes to climate a looming economic storm.

“Petrol charges are reasonably priced in rich Switzerland,” he explained to the Tages-Anzeiger paper in an interview revealed on Wednesday.

Maurer, a fiscal hawk from the correct-wing Swiss People’s Social gathering, reported a recession was nearing but its severity depended on how extensive the war in Ukraine lasted and on electrical power prices.

He claimed Swiss banks must resist tension to action up enforcement of sanctions on Russians remaining punished in the West for the invasion of Ukraine.

“If nearly anything we should say: Slow down a little bit and don’t put into action the sanctions with a ‘Swiss finish’. Our financial institutions likely sanction far more harshly than any one else,” he was quoted as saying.

He stated Switzerland should use fuel-fired energy plants and increase the everyday living of nuclear electricity crops to help fulfill its electricity needs, adding that Switzerland would help to finance gas terminals that neighbour Germany was creating.

Reporting by Michael Shields Editing by Edmund Klamann

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