The government is shifting its center of gravity toward the economy, as parliament votes tomorrow, Wednesday, on a bill introduced by the Ministry of National Economy and Finance. The legislation expands the out-of-court debt settlement mechanism, introduces the option of repaying debts in up to 72 installments for obligations that had not been restructured by the end of 2023, and raises the protected threshold on bank accounts to €1,600 for all debts owed to the state and banks. The same bill establishes an extraordinary financial support payment of €150 per dependent child for families with children, with expanded income eligibility criteria — a measure that Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been particularly vocal about in recent weeks.
A piece of positive news the government will also capitalize on is the Bank of Greece’s announcement that the travel account posted a surplus of €735.9 million in April and €1,664.3 million in the January–April 2026 period, while travel receipts rose by 9.5% in April and by 36.9% in the January–April period. These figures point to a strong start for Greek tourism in the first quarter of the year and raise expectations for the months ahead.
New Democracy turns up the heat on Tsipras with the economy as its weapon
At the same time, New Democracy is playing the economic card in its attacks on rival parties — most notably Alexis Tsipras’s ELAS. “Citizens know full well the tax onslaught they suffered under Tsipras, and they will deliver their verdict on these dangerous plans at the 2027 elections,” said New Democracy spokesperson Alexandra Sdoukos, who challenged the spokesperson of the new party — which consistently polls in second place across all surveys — to name exactly which taxes it plans to raise.
Hatzidakis: Over €1 billion in investments over the next three years
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis stressed that the Greek Innovation and Infrastructure Fund is now fully operational and revealed that the first investment in the digital infrastructure sector is expected to be announced very soon. “Our goal is to mobilize investments exceeding €1 billion over the next three years, while in the longer term, the projects to be financed are estimated to reach €20 billion,” said Hatzidakis, speaking at the Growthfund Investor Summit 2026 – Navigating the New Geoeconomic Order. He also noted that the transformation of the Super Fund is not an isolated event, but part of a broader transformation that has been taking place in the Greek economy in recent years. He pointed to growth rates, the creation of hundreds of thousands of new jobs, fiscal surpluses, and the dramatic reduction of public debt as key indicators of this shift.
Pierrakakis: Greece has regained credibility and investment-grade status
Also speaking at the same conference about the Super Fund’s transformation into a National Development Fund, Minister of National Economy and Finance Kyriakos Pierrakakis emphasized that the country has now moved into a different league — one that “has regained credibility, has regained investment-grade status, and, most importantly, has proven that it can combine growth with fiscal responsibility.”
Mitsotakis’s call to Greece’s wealthiest: “Become part of a stronger Greece”
On Monday, at the inauguration of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff’s Directorate of Informatics and Cyberspace building, Kyriakos Mitsotakis issued a call “to Greece’s most powerful citizens to become part of a stronger Greece,” drawing inspiration from the donation made by the Athanasios Laskaridis Charitable Foundation that helped fund the modern facility. “If the top 50 shipping families in the country hold fortunes exceeding €1 billion each, and their combined wealth amounts to around €50 billion, and if each and every one of them who manages such a fortune were to follow the example of Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos — who left half their wealth to a charitable foundation in support of our homeland — a combined endowment of around €25 billion euros would be assembled. At a conservative return of just 5%, that would translate into the capacity to support Greek society with more than €1 billion annually,” the Prime Minister said, elaborating on his example. He closed with the following appeal: “Let those of our fellow citizens who have built great wealth — supported, to a degree, by the Greek state, which has always stood by Greek shipping — reflect on these figures. I am confident that when they do, your example will inspire many others to follow.”
