Record state investments planned for next year

[Reuters]

Solid growth, with GDP expanding supra 2% successful 2026, arsenic well arsenic a strong fiscal show and a dip successful the indebtedness beneath 140% of GDP successful the aforesaid year, will be, according to authorities sources, the main elements of the 2026 draught budget, which will beryllium submitted to Parliament connected Monday by Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis.

It will beryllium a fund without caller benefits, since it will, of course, incorporated the caller €1.7 cardinal measures announced by the premier curate past month. Possible further alleviation could originate successful April of adjacent year, depending connected the 2025 fund execution information that Eurostat will present.

The fund draught was broadly agreed with a European Commission delegation that was successful Athens past week, up of preparing its study connected the country’s advancement for the European Semester.

The comparative optimism astir the maturation complaint is based mostly connected investments, which are expected to beryllium boosted adjacent year thanks to a nationalist concern program, which will scope a grounds high: according to Alternate Finance Minister Nikos Papathanasis, it will scope €16.9 billion, up from €14.6 cardinal this year.