Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke of a difficult year with war fronts, climate crisis and tectonic changes in his introductory statement to the cabinet, noting however that Greece is a country of stability in an unstable world.

"Our first meeting for 2025 is an opportunity to pick up the thread of our duties even more dynamically. We are facing a difficult year outside our borders, with wars, economic uncertainty, instability in many societies, with the climate crisis becoming increasingly threatening, if we consider the unprecedented in terms of its destructiveness fires in California, but also with tectonic, I would say, reversals in what we understand and know as politics, if we consider what is happening across the Atlantic," the Prime Minister said.

"Because we are indeed in a landscape that is not only overshadowed by declarations and I would say relatively unprecedented announcements, announcing geostrategic changes, changes in the zones of influence. We are also facing an unprecedented scenario in which global economic players are claiming the role of shaping public opinion in many countries. A phenomenon which, with the help of the insatiable consumption of fake news, is besieging, I would say, the Western culture of reason and democracy.

And obviously the answers to these challenges cannot only be given at the level of our country, as you can already see that these issues are also of concern to the European Union at the highest level, but obviously they must also take a central place in our own concerns. Indeed, in a country which has been tested by populism, paying dearly both for easy solutions which have ultimately proved to be completely unattainable and for grand words which have sometimes turned into painful deeds.

Mr. Mitsotakis continued: "And this as a first thought at an international juncture when I don't think anyone can deny that despite the difficulties that always exist, Greece is responding positively as a country of stability in an unstable world and as a political and governmental majority, I think, which today inspires a confidence in the midst of repeated governmental crises from Germany to recently, what we have seen, which happened in Canada, another G7 country which has entered a trajectory of political testing.

But also, of course, an economy that is still an optimistic exception in Europe. And it's a fact that we've recorded and the further deceleration of inflation to have now, for the first time in a very long time, even slightly negative food inflation. But I think we also had overall a very good movement in the holiday market. These are positive signs, but obviously there are still problems, which is why we are starting the year with an initiative today which concerns the proper functioning of the state, a reform which aims to make disciplinary justice in the public sector much faster.