"Our first meeting for 2025 is an opportunity to pursue our tasks with enhanced vigour. A difficult year is ahead of us. Beyond our borders, wars are raging, economic uncertainty and instability prevail in many societies, while the climate crisis is becoming increasingly threatening if we think about the unprecedented fires in California," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a cabinet meeting on Friday.
"However, despite the difficulties that exist, Greece is responding positively as a country of stability in an unstable world and as a political and governmental majority which today inspires confidence in the midst of repeated governmental crises from Germany to Canada, another G7 country which has entered a politically testing time," he pointed out.
He also spoke of an economy "which continues to be an optimistic exception in Europe," noting that this fact was also reflected by the further de-escalation of inflation.
As the premier pointed out, however, there were still problems and this was why the government was "starting the year with an initiative that essentially concerns the proper functioning of the state, a reform that aims to ensure that disciplinary justice in the State is administered much more quickly and that those guilty of breach of faith do not go unpunished."
"Despite the progress that has been made, today we have more than 2,500 cases that are still stagnating in 92 disciplinary councils. In half of them, in fact, the process has not yet started, a rapporteur has not been appointed and the time to complete the procedures can sometimes exceed five years.
Obviously, this situation is not acceptable, and that is why the Interior Minister will propose a new scheme, which will involve many more officers of the Legal Council, who will focus on this. I believe that this legislative initiative constitutes a profound political choice that clearly states our position for speed, transparency, and full accountability of the State," he said.
The cabinet will also have the opportunity to discuss a bill of the Ministry of Finance, which strengthens the capital market, the premier noted. "The capital market is a key tool for the development of the private economy. We are particularly interested in the way in which we will establish additional incentives, specifically for the listing of companies on the stock exchange, and we place an emphasis on small and medium-sized enterprises. It is important that dynamic Greek enterprises can obtain new financing channels so that they can in turn support the overall growth potential of the economy," Mitsotakis emphasised.
But, of course, he added, "our minister will also talk to us about a sector that has been widely discussed recently, that of cryptocurrencies. We will attempt to bring order to a field that remains, for the most part, cloudy and unregulated. We do not demonise a rapidly growing market, but we are attempting to establish some rules for public protection and mainly safe information controls, warnings about the very high risks involved in such investment activities.
We are essentially aligning the national framework with the European one regarding abusive practices that are recorded in this environment," he said.
The Greek premier noted that Greece is "a leading force of certainty and growth. Together, we are leading Greece to progress, but I believe that we also play an important role in European developments. But, of course, no leadership position is predestined. It depends on the continuation of our work, on the intensification of our pace and, above all, on the implementation of our election programme. That is why the Greek citizens trusted us 18 months ago and this is what we have a duty to implement, and obviously 2025 is an absolutely critical year in the link of the chain that will ultimately lead us to the national elections of 2027," he concluded.
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