Greece’s Ministry of National Economy and Finance set out a draft law to establish a new National Development Programme (NDP) worth EUR 22.4bn, alongside a proposal to move the Payment and Control Agency for Guidance and Guarantee Community Aid (OPEKEPE) to the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE). In a parliamentary committee briefing, the ministry linked the NDP to a higher public investment envelope, with the public investment development programme set at EUR 14.6bn for 2025 and EUR 16.7bn for 2026, compared with EUR 5.6bn in 2019. The ministry framed the NDP’s strategic priorities around infrastructure and transport, the digital and green transition, artificial intelligence, crisis resilience, social cohesion, and measures related to housing and demographic challenges. The draft law would also introduce a comprehensive rulebook for the preparation, coordination, management, financing, monitoring, control and implementation of NDP interventions, including clearer eligibility of actions and expenditures, stronger project appraisal support, alignment of project intake with annual and medium-term fiscal capacity, more systematic controls, a governance mechanism for specifying and coordinating NDP programmes, and reinforced management services. Separately, the ministry indicated that a seventh Recovery Fund payment request would be submitted in the coming days for EUR 1bn in grants and EUR 300m under the loan component, and reported EUR 23.4bn received so far, representing 65% of the total budget. The ministry also presented the planned OPEKEPE transfer to AADE as a governance measure aimed at preventing a repeat of issues currently under judicial investigation.

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