"The climate crisis and climate change have confronted us with a new reality that we are living in, and the biggest lesson from this whole story is Daniel, who we saw in Thessaly and who shook us all," said the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Nikos Tachiaos, during his speech at the workshop on the climate crisis, disasters, and state aid, organized by the municipality of Prespa in cooperation with the Ministry of Climate Crisis.

Mr. Tachiaos announced that "in the summer, the awarding of the Storm Daniel recovery projects in Thessalia, with a budget of 1.4 billion euros, will begin.". He explained that the 470 million euros concern projects on the railway infrastructure and more specifically on the network from Lamia to Larissa and from Paliofarsalo to Kalambaka, which has been severely damaged. In addition, "900 million euros will be given for the rehabilitation of road infrastructure" in municipalities such as the municipalities of Argithea Mouzaki and Lake Plastira. These are certain villages and towns that are mainly inhabited in the summer, and, as he stressed, "we owe this to their residents, because if we do not do it, there is a risk that they will all pile up in large urban centers, resulting in the desertification of the country." He explained that "the resources are not inexhaustible, although the damage caused by weather events is enormous, and that the wounds cannot be healed overnight, although the inhabitants want and expect it".

As an inhibiting factor affecting rehabilitation projects, Mr. Tachiaos said that in some cases, "although we want and have the resources, we cannot proceed because the companies that undertake public works do not have the technical staff to cover all the needs and of course there is not the inexperienced machinery for all this. In any case, there is a reality that limits us" concluded Mr. Tahiaos. Finally, he said that in order for the government to finance the Daniel restoration projects in Thessaly, we had to "withdraw from the Recovery Fund projects of about 600 million euros and they were very important projects" such as the Tsinika dam, which will be financed by the Public Investment Fund and the Preveza-Lefkada water supply project.