The strategic direction of the Ministry of Development to build an economy that produces, exports, innovates and creates a prospect for young people, was presented by Minister of Development Takis Theodorikakos, speaking at the Conference “Greece 2025–2030” on “Searching for the new model of development”.

“The country’s big challenges in view of 2030 are the urgent change of our productive model, the productive transformation of the Greek economy and the decisive action against the acute demographic threat,” he said.

As he underlined, the Ministry of Development implements a package of reforms moving in five fields:

  1. Development law, with transparent processes and market participation and banking system evaluation.
  2. The new National Quality Policy, legislated within the next three weeks and lays the groundwork for a credible identity of Greek products.
  3. Decrease in bureaucratic costs by 25%, through a new package of ongoing processes.
  4. The national strategy for innovation, through the reactivation of the EESEK.
  5. The great reform of market supervision, with the creation of a new powerful independent authority, according to the AADE standard, to control the market and protect the consumer.

“The deficit of the trade balance, as a percentage of GDP, remains where it was 25 years ago – when we entered the eurozone,” the Minister of Development said, describing the problem as “deeply structural”. As he said, the new productive orientation “is an urgent need” and is “technocratic and deeply political”. “We all have to give back to productive work the position it deserves. To honor not the easy profit, but the creation of wealth with organized work, at individual, social and national level. Most weight falls on innovation, extroversion, industry, manufacturing and fair development in the region, “he added.

Mr Theodorikakos emphasized that Greek production is concentrated in low -tech sectors, stressing that the key priorities should be to strengthen the manufacturing industry in high -tech sectors and in companies that are co -ordinated.

In this context, he referred to the new development law, which he described as a “key tool for the productive transformation of the Greek economy”. As he pointed out, in the two years 2025–2026, more than € 4 billion is expected to mobilize, while the first three regimes are being announced directly, relate to manufacturing, large investments of more than 15m euros and border areas and counties with incomes below 70% of the national average.

In addition, the Minister of Development referred to the role of the Inter -Ministerial Strategic Investment Committee, which “has already approved budget investments of more than € 2 billion”. As he explained, these are innovative and technological cutting -edge, but also important projects in the field of defense industry.

“The country’s productive reconstruction is not a matter of one ministry, it is a matter of government, the chambers, the banking system, the education system that has to adjust its strategy to the need for productive transformation of the economy. We need a new national plan, with measurable goals that will be recorded step by step, “concluded Mr. Theodorikakos.