In his Sunday Facebook post, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis places particular emphasis on the dismantling by the Hellenic Police of a network involved in extortion and bribery within Athens urban planning offices, sending the message that “there are no untouchable zones” and that the fight against corruption is won through planning, persistence, and political will.

“This is an event that confirms, in the clearest possible way, that the fight against corruption is not won with empty promises, but with planning, persistence, and political will,” the Prime Minister states.

Mitsotakis links the case to the reform he had announced at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), concerning the transfer of the crucial task of issuing and reviewing building permits from scattered municipal structures to the new, unified, and digital Land Registry (Cadastre). He emphasizes that areas of opacity are dealt with more effectively when the state acquires modern tools for oversight, transparency, and accountability.

In the same context, he stresses that “we know that pockets of opacity and clientelist dependencies are addressed more effectively when the state acquires modern tools for oversight, transparency, and accountability. The message is clear: there are no untouchable zones, there are no ‘untouchables.’”

In the same review, Mitsotakis also refers to the completion of six years of operation of gov.gr, which now offers 2,257 digital services, has served more than 9 million citizens, and has led to the issuance of over 431 million documents and certificates.

At the same time, he expands on his modernization agenda, referring to the new National Health System (NHS), telemedicine, the electronic patient-tracking “bracelet” in Emergency Departments, the National Strategy for Palliative Care, regional television licenses, the new European framework on migration, constitutional reform, measures to boost employment for people with disabilities, the railway sector, the acceleration of judicial processes, as well as cultural and urban redevelopment projects.

Finally, he made special reference to migration, stressing that “our country is adapting to the new European Pact on Migration and Asylum, which provides for stricter protection of external borders, faster asylum procedures, and greater support for member states on the front line of migration flows, such as Greece.”