Three main areas of government actions for the next five years, its vice -president presented yesterday Kostis Hatzidakisat the Conference “Greece 2025-2030”, organized by Next Is Now and the Dome Consulting Firm. Mr Hatzidakis stood out as areas of priority: the productive economy, the modern state and the opportunities for young people, stressing at the same time that the government should develop even higher speeds in the implementation of reforms.
Starting his placement, Mr. Hatzidakis, and to highlight the progress Greece has noted in recent years, he made a brief overview in Greece in 2015: “Who could think then – and much more to bet – that, 10 years later, Greece could grow at more than twice as much growth rates on the average of the European Union? What will have a record of investment and that we will get double exports in exports over the pre -crisis period? That 72 different taxes would have been reduced? And that would have been created in a country of 10.5 million, over half a million new jobs? “
Subsequently, he submitted more detailed the 3 main areas of action by the government by 2030:
1. Productive Economy: As Mr Hatzidakis noted, this is “a bundle of basic interventions in relation to the enhancement of the competitiveness of the economy to have a more productive Greece. They are interventions at many different levels that will change the image and allow us to rely on a more solid foundation. ” And he added: “We have fiscal consolidation, there is no doubt. But they need to be much more than issues related to competitiveness, competition, productivity, further boosting investment and exports. “
Subsequently, he developed the government’s priorities in this area:
• Tax cuts that the Prime Minister will announce to the TIF.
• Completion of the Land Registry by the end of 2025.
• Promotion of 245 local and special planning plans.
• Acceleration of justice.
• Promoting large infrastructure projects, such as the completion of the Patra-Pyrgos road, extension of the Thessaloniki subway to Kalamaria in the first months of 2026, later Flyover, the large electric interconnection of Crete in a few days, the electric interconnection of the Cyclades in 20.
• Privatizations and utilization of public property: “We have the port of Lavrion on the agenda now. The 22 local airports, which we want to follow the course of the 14 regional airports. And the new start that the ERAD has proven to be, “Mr. Hatzidakis stressed.
• Promoting Renewable Energy Sources: Mr. Hatzidakis noted here that “the country is 7th worldwide in renewable energy. And in 2024, after many years he became a net electricity exporter. “
Finally, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that “all these structural changes are complemented, as is reasonable and imperative, by the social dimension of this policy. Because it is not enough to simply reinforce competitiveness or promote some great projects when you forget the worker and society in general. That is why we are promoting and will continue to promote the digital work card. And that’s why we’ve made a huge progress in tax evasion, which had not been done all the last decades. “
2. Modern state: This axis includes initiatives related to the battle with the deep state, the better functioning of the public and the upgrading of citizens’ service.
“The deep state is still here, although we have made great advances as in the digital modernization of the State, EFKA, PPC. There are areas that we need to fight with determination and speed, such as OSE and urban transport especially in Athens where citizens are entitled to a higher level of service, “the Deputy Prime Minister said. Mr. Hatzidakis made particular reference to “Stories of Daily Crazy with the State” and announced legislative interventions that would address such issues.
He then quoted the rest of the government’s interventions:
• Expansion of evaluation to the State. Patients and a more substantial evaluation in education will follow.
• Expanding the Digital Work Card to the State until the beginning of 2026, “so as to check which employees are actually coming to their service and who do not, who really do overtime and who do not. And this has a budgetary dimension on the one hand and on the other a sense of justice. “
• Proposal on the one hand to remove the permanence of civil servants and on the other to establish the evaluation, in the context of the forthcoming constitutional review.
3. Opportunities for young people: Mr. Hatzidakis attached particular importance to policies that are focused on the issues that concern the younger generation (demographic, housing, decentralization, universities, training, artificial intelligence).
The deputy prime minister underlined Brain Drain’s reversal from 2023 onwards, according to official figures: “Since 2023 the evidence has said that the trend has changed and that those who are returning are officially more than those who leave.” And he continued with the government’s initiatives so that “from now on we can keep this tendency stable”:
•Upgrading public universities, with more active financial support to universities and with all recent changes to enhance security and compliance with legality.
•Promoting non -state universities, “as it was our commitment and our ideological and political choice for many years. In order to have more options. And instead of Greek students leaving abroad, having students from abroad. As in Cyprus. “
•Strengthening the training of employees, with certification, and intra -business training.
•Introduction to artificial intelligence into the State, following the initiatives to digitize the state.
•43 initiatives of € 6.5 billion to address the housing issue. “There will be a new update of this policy at the Thessaloniki International Exhibition. With new initiatives depending on how things are evolving, “Mr. Hatzidakis said.
•Treatment of demographic.
• Strengthening the Region. Mr Hatzidakis noted that the government is working out “a cohesive framework for actions, so that young people have more reasons to stay in their country. And even more so young people who are from border and island areas, “he concluded.