Mitsotakis: Energy Shift and Tax Reliefs with a Horizon of 2026

Chevron and Helleniq Energy's information successful offshore blocks southbound of Crete signals geopolitical recognition, portion announcements astatine the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) item taxation breaks, household support, and concern successful wellness and education

With an accent connected Greece’s vigor independency and its strengthened geopolitical position, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, successful his play post, highlighted the information of vigor giant Chevron and Helleniq Energy in the planetary tender for 4 offshore blocks southbound of Crete and the Peloponnese. He described it arsenic a strong awesome of designation of Greece’s vigor and geopolitical importance.

He stated that this is not lone a large concern initiative, but besides a de facto designation of the country’s sovereign rights successful the maritime zones southbound of Crete. The way for this task was paved by the “Maniatis law” during 2012–2014, and acknowledgment to the government’s strategy since 2020, it present enters the implementation phase.

Reforms with a Social Focus

The Prime Minister linked these vigor developments with the announcements made astatine the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), which helium described arsenic a reform with a national, demographic, developmental, intergenerational, and determination footprint, returning, arsenic helium said, the fruits of corporate effort since 2019 to each citizens – particularly the susceptible and the mediate class.

Key measures include:

• Zero taxation for young radical up to 25 years old, for the archetypal clip since the restoration of ideology successful Greece (Metapolitefsi).
• Tax cuts for salaried workers, pensioners, freelancers, and farmers, with a total payment of implicit €1.7 cardinal for 4 cardinal taxpayers.
• Additional interventions of €1.5 billion, to commencement being implemented from November.

The Prime Minister provided ten real-life examples to exemplify the applicable interaction of these measures connected employees, ample families, pensioners, and spot owners. For example:

• A backstage assemblage worker with 3 children volition spot a monthly summation of €214.
• A ample household with 2 moving parents volition payment by €5,780 annually.
• A young nonrecreational with an income of €15,000 volition save €2,000 successful taxes.

Health, Education, and Transport: Areas of Focus

In his fortnightly recap, Mitsotakis highlighted cardinal interventions successful the areas of health, education, and transport.

In healthcare, helium spotlighted the “Prolamvano” (I Prevent) program, which has already provided escaped screenings to over 1.8 cardinal citizens, and present joins the European EU Heart Plan. The authorities is besides installing 10,000 defibrillators in schools and nationalist spaces.

He besides announced the instauration of an Oncology Unit astatine Syros Hospital, ending the long-standing load for crab patients successful the Cyclades who had to question to Athens for treatment.

In education, the “Marietta Giannakou” program for upgrading schoolhouse infrastructure volition grow to 2,500 schoolhouse units. Additional actions include:

• 2,900 caller interactive whiteboards, connected apical of the existing 36,000.
• Expansion of robotics and STEM programs to 11,000 schools.
• Introduction of Economics successful 9th Grade, and AI contented successful caller IT textbooks.
• Broader digital enactment via eVivlio and the Digital Tutoring program, including motion connection resources.

In transport, helium announced that Athens Metro, Trams, and Buses volition run 24/7 each Saturday, for safer nighttime mobility.

Important investments person besides been made successful the railway network: 100 trains present feature automatic braking systems, and 250 Greek railway workers abroad have expressed involvement successful returning to enactment successful Greece.

Justice, Security and Economic Oversight

The Prime Minister besides addressed:

• The permanent prohibition connected discounts from supermarkets successful the lawsuit of terms hikes.
• The instauration of an Independent Consumer Authority to show marketplace abuse.
• Police and judicial successes, including dismantling of organized transgression and smuggling rings.
• Discovery of 200 money-laundering cases via online betting companies, involving elder nationalist officials.

Sports Development

Through taxation connected gambling profits, €2.1 cardinal per year will beryllium directed to 63 sports federations, while all nationalist teams (including para-athletes) will beryllium afloat covered for grooming expenses.

Honoring History and Memory

The Prime Minister concluded his station with a tribute to the Remembrance Day of the Genocide of the Greeks of Asia Minor, stating:“September volition ever punctual america of the calamity of an full Nation. A representation which, arsenic Smyrna-born writer George Seferis wrote, ‘hurts wherever you interaction it,’ and calls upon america ne'er to forget.”

Closing with a committedness to instrumentality with much updates adjacent Sunday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sought to contiguous a authorities docket that blends energy independence, economical growth, and societal support, looking up to 2026 and beyond. Source: pagenews.gr

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