By Dora Antoniou

The prime minister is expected to develop the basic guidelines and government priorities for 2025 today, Kyriakos Mitsotakisat the cabinet meeting. This is the last cabinet meeting of this year and, according to government sources, it is expected that a short assessment and account will be made of the year that is ending and the rate at which what was planned was implemented, while the meeting will mainly be of a forward-looking nature, in the sense that the government’s “road map” for 2025 will be set.

Mr. Mitsotakis is expected to set the political framework on the basis of which the government will act, while the Minister of State, Akis Skertsos, will present for approval the Consolidated Government Policy Plan 2025.

The plan, which was formed after the Ministries’ Annual Plans were completed last month and the prioritized actions were consolidated, is the “backbone” of government policy for the coming year, while it incorporates the planning for the implementation of 45 measures announced in TEF the prime minister. In particular, among others, this includes:

– 172 investments, of which 38 are new

– 151 reforms, several of which are commitments in the medium-term plan agreed with the European institutions

– 46 of them are new

– New horizontal objectives, such as the National Strategy for the Disabled, the fight against violence in sports, education, family, sustainable urban mobility, regional development and convergence, cyber security, equality policies aimed at empowering women, young people and people with disabilities.

In the fields of economy and social policy, the priorities concern the further increase of the minimum wage and pensions, the development of housing policies with support especially for young couples, combined with the National Action Plan for the demographic.

In addition to the government’s “road map” for 2025, the presentation of the bill for the modernization of the institutional framework of water supply and sewerage services by the Minister of Environment and Energy, Theodoros Skylakakis, is expected with interest at today’s ministerial meeting. It seems that the objections and disagreements expressed by self-governing bodies have progressed, following some amendments that have been made.

The Finance Ministers, Kostis Hatzidakis and Interior, Theodoris Livanioswill be placed to set quantitative targets per service for the implementation of the incentive and reward system of civil servants. The Minister of National Defence, Nikos Dendias, and the Deputy Minister, Yiannis Kefalogiannis, will present the bill for the utilization of the real estate of the Armed Forces, while suggestions on matters of their competence will be made by the Ministers of Education, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, of the State, Maki Voridis, of Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis.