What does the successful absorption of the Recovery Fund‘s €36 billion have in common with the digital reform of gov.gr, the strategy for reducing car accidents and the panic button;

Everything bears the stamp of “staff state”, the style of administration and management with a strong centre of government, specific targeting and tight control introduced by government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis in 2019, which has led to solutions to major problems, several of which were decades-old pathologies.

Significant projects of the executive state include the digital reform of gov.gr but also the successful implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan – with funding from the EU Recovery Fund – with infrastructure projects, investments and actions amounting to €36 billion, which leave a “deep” imprint on the everyday life of citizens.

A characteristic of the extent to which gov.gr has now become an integral part of everyday life for millions of citizens is that in March alone:

  • 13,977 13,977.000 digital transactions,
  • 1.5 million affidavits were issued without any physical presence,
  • over 10.1 million intangible prescriptions and referrals were performed digitally,
  • almost 300.000 appointments were booked through health applications,
  • while 240,000 citizen requests were directly answered by the digital assistant mAigov.

This data also reveals the easier access to pharmacological care and diagnostic tests, where for many years the solution of acquaintance has dominated.

In addition, 5.7 million citizens have registered with the National Contact Registerand 3.2 million are actively using the Gov.gr Wallet, which means that the digital tools are used by the majority of citizens.

The same philosophy permeates critical tools like “112”, where technology is harnessed to protect human life, proving that the digital state can also be a human state.

At the same time, emphasis has been placed on infrastructure. With targeted programmes such as the Gigabit Voucherand the Smart Readiness, with resources of about €200 million from the Recovery Fund, but also with the major work of Ultrafast Broadband, the infrastructure is being extended across the whole territory with a focus on areas where the market would not invest, namely peri-urban, mountainous and island areas, in order for high-speed connectivityto become a reality for every citizen, wherever they are.

Significant infrastructure is also being driven by resources36 billion. EUR36 million of the National Recovery Plan, which has brought about positive changes in major areas of public policies, such as public health and public education.

For example, 23.5 thousand households, which is the population of a city the size of Pyrgos, have acquired their own tile over the last two years thanks to the “My House” I and II“My House” I and II programs.

In addition, utilizing a digital app on their mobile device, the well-known panic button, 2.147 women have been savedthanks to the Greek Police from incidents of abuse in their homes. The results in the field of road safety are also impressive.

Based on the plan developed and implemented, in 2025 Greece showed the second largest reduction in Europeon an annual basis in human lives lost on asphalt as 148 fewer people died, while many more escaped serious or minor injuries.

At the same time, any patient discharged from any hospital in the country now has the option, if they wish, to evaluate the hospital’s health services, thereby contributing to their further improvement.

“Executive state means a centralized planningwhich allows us to take this complex exercise of running a country and make it somewhat simpler, so that we can inform ourselves, so that we can set prioritiesand whenever needed intergovernmental coordination, so that Akis Skertos, in his capacity as the Government Coordination Secretariat, can intervene, not to cap anyone, but to solve coordination problems,” the prime minister said, citing the strategy to reduce road accidents as an indicative example.

“We know very well that in order to have a coherent strategy to deal with road accidents, four ministers had to sit at the same table. Someone has to do that. And since it is a central political priority, the responsibility de facto passes to what we call “executive state”. So we should neither demonize it nor should we deify it. It is a way of managing and administering. There is no serious country in the world that does not have a strong centre of governance,” Kyriakos Mitsotakis stresses.