Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis wanted to send a message of optimism and self-confidence for 2025 in his New Year’s statement for 2025.

The Prime Minister’s message in detail:

“We say goodbye to a turbulent 2024 amid serious geopolitical upheavals in our neighborhood and the world. However, we welcome 2025 with the confidence of a country that, despite the obstacles, keeps its steering wheel pointed towards progress, strengthening its defense and economy and trying, day by day, to make the lives of all Greek women and men better Greeks.

It was a lot that we conquered together in twelve months. After years wages and pensions have increased, taxes and unemployment have continued to fall, while we have seen changes and projects that some thought would not happen: from postal voting or non-state universities, to curbing tax evasion and, of course, the Metro of Thessaloniki. Big changes, however, that are already a reality.

2024 certainly had its problems. Our country, like others, was hit by the climate crisis. As in the internal scene, there was no shortage of failures. But, I say it again: in an unstable planet Greece remains stable and in an environment of fixation, she advances. Thus, at the dawn of 2025, we face the difficulties with realism, so that, with planning and work, we can turn them into new opportunities.

From tomorrow, after all, workers and pensioners will see improved wages and reduced contributions. Professionals will be relieved of the pretense fee, while the “My Home II” Program also begins. From the new year, many bank charges are also zeroed out or reduced. In April, the basic salary and fees in the State will increase again, to be followed by the new support of our Entolo.

Finally, the calendar wants Greece to move quickly to upgrade all hospitals and health centers, with new schools, with digital teaching boards in the classrooms and with many electric buses in the cities. A member state of the UN Security Council, which will receive its first Belh@rra frigate, alongside Rafale fighters and the many upgraded F-16s.

A country that cares about the big issues, but also about what may seem small, but hide big risks: from serious crime to youth delinquency and violence-free playgrounds, and from free screenings for adults to digital protection measures child dependence and reckless use of the mobile phone.

So we leave behind the storms and misery of yesterday. I feel, of course, that no amount of progress should ever be considered enough. But this is now visible, much more so if we think about the path we have traveled until now, which gives us new confidence so that together we can make the hopes certain, the steps of the homeland to make leaps, from the present we live in to the tomorrow we want.

Happy new year to all, with health and many smiles. The best is ahead of us».