Mitsotakis: The Greece–France alliance is strong and multifaceted, strengthening our geopolitical position – What he said about the economy, healthcare, and livestock farmers

The Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, made extended notation to the visit of the French President, Emmanuel Macron, to Athens successful his Sunday post.

Initially, the Prime Minister referred to the value of Greek-French cooperation, stressing that the caller strategical statement strengthens the country’s geopolitical relation and creates prospects for practice successful captious sectors specified arsenic defense, the economy, and technology.

At the aforesaid time, helium referred to initiatives being recorded successful areas specified arsenic healthcare, education, transport, and nationalist safety, arsenic good arsenic interventions to code urgent issues, specified arsenic the outbreak of foot-and-mouth illness connected Lesbos.

His afloat post:

“Bonjour! Today I greet you successful French, intelligibly influenced by the sojourn of the President of France and person Emmanuel Macron to Athens connected Friday and Saturday. It is ever bully to corroborate successful signifier that you person beardown allies, particularly erstwhile this translates into agreements that safeguard the country.

At a captious geopolitical juncture, we reaffirmed the strategical prime we made successful 2021 to fortify the narration betwixt Greece and France, turning it into a strong, multifaceted alliance. The Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership we signed a fewer hours agone is simply a wide strategical statement that further upgrades and deepens Greek-French relations, marking our associated people not lone successful defense, but besides successful the economy, civilian protection, migration, technology, the environment, education, and culture. This is an statement that makes Greece safer, strengthens its geopolitical position, and creates caller opportunities and prospects for synergies, from artificial quality to cybersecurity. At the aforesaid time, we are substantially strengthening our deterrent powerfulness done the renewal of the 2021 strategical defence and information partnership. Greece and France are subordinate states of the EU and NATO, but astatine the aforesaid clip we are becoming a beardown axis successful the Mediterranean, thing we demonstrated with our defence enactment for Cyprus, showing what European solidarity means successful practice. We proceed to determination guardant unneurotic connected the way toward a strong, competitive, and autonomous Europe—issues we besides discussed astatine the informal European Council successful Cyprus. A Europe susceptible of lasting confidently successful an uncertain satellite and defending the interests of its citizens and its values.

Beyond these precise important developments, the week we permission down focused connected the system and supporting disposable income. Our “formula” remains steady: the amended the system performs beyond forecasts, the much the surplus volition beryllium returned to citizens, particularly the astir vulnerable. The momentum of our economy, arsenic reflected successful authoritative Eurostat data, allowed america to denote connected Wednesday 8 caller enactment measures totaling €500 million.

So however bash these measures translate:

• 1.86 cardinal pensioners and radical with disabilities volition spot their yearly payment summation from €250 to €300
• More than 1 cardinal tenants volition person a refund of 1 retired of the 12 rents they pay, pursuing the enlargement of income criteria we announced
• 3.3 cardinal parents volition person €150 per child
• 1.3 cardinal individuals and 284,000 businesses and self-employed professionals with overdue debts to the authorities tin much easy settee their debts successful 72 installments
• 250,000 nonrecreational farmers volition person further enactment for diesel substance and fertilizers
• The €0.20 diesel subsidy is extended done May

I americium good alert that nary azygous measurement is capable to destruct the pressures of planetary ostentation connected its own. However, the information that Greece is present 1 of lone 5 EU countries with a surplus allows america to supply solutions without risking what we person built.

Another affirmative portion of quality for our system came from Europe, arsenic the 7th installment of €1.18 cardinal from the Recovery and Resilience Facility was disbursed, bringing the full we person received implicit 4.5 years to €24.6 billion. These resources are being turned into projects the state has needed for decades: from infirmary renovations and the integer modernization of the state, to infrastructure that makes Greece a modern country.

However, arsenic nary week has lone bully news, I crook to the contented of foot-and-mouth illness that emerged successful livestock units connected Lesbos. A major, coordinated conflict is underway, mobilizing each disposable resources and forces to incorporate and eradicate the illness from the island. I privation livestock farmers to cognize that we basal by them, and we are already preparing and volition contiguous a broad enactment framework, without a fiscal cap, with 4 cardinal interventions covering livestock losses, income, provender costs, and impacts connected beverage production. But this is simply a conflict we indispensable combat together. I impulse producers to strictly travel biosecurity measures truthful we tin bounds the illness arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.

Next taxable for today: the “Social Tourism” program, whose applications opened connected Tuesday, aiming to statesman connected May 18, earlier than ever before. It is simply a programme that has been wide embraced—consider that since 2019, much than 1.2 cardinal citizens person taken holidays done it. This year, we are offering 300,000 vouchers, with a absorption chiefly connected those astir successful need: ample families are automatically included, portion radical with disabilities person the highest precedence scoring.

A precise important improvement concerns accessibility for radical with disabilities successful the city, arsenic the Free Transportation Service for Persons with Disabilities is being strengthened with 7 further specially equipped vehicles, bringing the full fleet of OSY to 10. In applicable terms, this means disposable routes much than double. But we are not stopping astatine vehicles. We are investing successful people, grooming drivers and inspectors to supply the indispensable support, and successful technology, eliminating bureaucracy. With the Disability Card present straight linked to the physics ticket, citizens tin question for escaped without submitting documents oregon facing the inconvenience of the past.

I proceed successful the tract of nationalist wellness with the instauration of the caller gathering analyzable astatine the “Attikon” University General Hospital, 1 of the large flagships of the National Health System, primitively designed to service 80,000 radical per twelvemonth and present serving 200,000. This is wherefore the donation of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation is truthful important, and we warmly convey it. It is simply a nationalist benefactor of the wellness system. I volition notation lone the operation and instrumentality of 3 new, state-of-the-art hospitals successful Komotini, Thessaloniki, and Sparta, to beryllium delivered wrong the adjacent 12 months, which volition alteration the country’s infirmary map. As for “Attikon,” the 2 caller buildings volition beryllium completed and delivered to the authorities successful 2027. They volition conscionable the hospital’s needs for beds and on-call doctors’ spaces and volition big the National Coordination Center for Mobile Medical Units.

The OECD praised the integer translation of Greek education, noting that our state has moved from lagging successful acquisition innovation to becoming 1 of the astir dynamic examples of adaptation to the modern era. Today, Greece is among the countries that not lone travel developments but actively assistance signifier them. Examples see the Digital School, which ensures that a kid surviving connected the astir distant land oregon successful a upland colony has the aforesaid entree to cognition arsenic a pupil successful Athens; the Digital Tutoring level offering escaped lessons, particularly for students preparing for nationalist exams; tens of thousands of interactive whiteboards successful schools; connection apps similar e-Parents that fortify the transportation betwixt schoolhouse and family; and galore different initiatives. In short, we person made important investments successful integer infrastructure and acquisition resources.

The Court of Audit has approved the grant of the planetary tender held successful October 2025 for the physics monitoring of defendants, convicts, and prisoners connected leave—the alleged “ankle bracelets”—a important measurement successful modernizing the country’s transgression policy. I punctual you that the aviator programme began successful 2025, and now, aft the greenish airy from the Supreme Fiscal Court, it is being afloat implemented nationwide. Judicial authorities volition determine connected its exertion wherever ineligible conditions are met, but it is wide that physics monitoring chiefly concerns low- and medium-level crime, with peculiar accent connected susceptible groups specified arsenic detainees implicit 70, mothers with insignificant children, and persons with disabilities. It volition nether nary circumstances beryllium applied to those convicted of superior crimes.

On this occasion, I would besides similar to erstwhile again congratulate the officers of the Organized Crime Unit for dismantling a monolithic smuggling ringing of amerciable baccy products, with harm to the authorities exceeding €1 billion. The lawsuit allegedly involves 38 individuals and 21 companies of assorted ineligible forms, arsenic good arsenic 7 shipping companies. The Authority for Combating Money Laundering proceeded with 1 of the largest plus seizures successful Greece—luxury properties, factories, cars, vessels, and 3 tankers.

I proceed with yet different repatriation of Greek antiquities—a restoration of justness successful the tract of culture. This time, the instrumentality αφορά 5 past works of art—vessels, a bronze mirror, a statue, and portion of a relief—dating from the 6th period BC to the 2nd period AD, which returned from the United States to the onshore that created them. They had been acquired by the Grey family, who contacted the Greek authorities and offered to instrumentality them. This is simply a motion we welcome. Each clip 1 of our treasures returns, a portion of our past is restored.

I adjacent with a precise important portion of affirmative news. In the past week, credible planetary economical organizations, including the International Monetary Fund, recorded that Greece has achieved successful caller years the largest simplification successful nationalist indebtedness successful Europe and globally. This reduction—by 65 points, oregon astir 30% from its pandemic peak—is a conscious prime of fiscal work and intergenerational solidarity toward our children. Quite simply, young Greeks indispensable ne'er again unrecorded successful an over-indebted state that drives its younker abroad. Our authorities volition not walk the measure to aboriginal generations. Our extremity is that from adjacent year, Greece volition nary longer beryllium the EU state with the highest nationalist debt, continuing steadily connected the way of convergence with the remainder of Europe successful this captious area.

This reappraisal is intelligibly longer than past week’s. A instrumentality to normality, 1 mightiness say. See you adjacent Sunday!”