{"id":386720,"date":"2026-01-02T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386720\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:25:10","slug":"public-investments-exceed-budget-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386720\/","title":{"rendered":"Public investments exceed budget in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fc912452249a82b11995bb95d58e76bf_upourgeio66293-3.jpg\" alt=\"Public investments exceed budget in 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fc912452249a82b11995bb95d58e76bf_upourgeio66293-3-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Finance wants to boost flagging mergers and acquisitions activity by extending tax breaks to smaller companies; it would also reward those that do not shed part of their workforce. [INTIME]<\/p>\n<p>Greece fully implemented its Public Investment Development Program in 2025, spending \u20ac14.6 billion and slightly exceeding its approved budget, according to the Finance Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Official data show expenditures reached 100.08% of the program\u2019s allocation, reflecting what the ministry described as strong economic performance and effective use of national and European funding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of the total, \u20ac2.85 billion came from national resources, \u20ac6.86 billion from co-financed programs and \u20ac4.9 billion from the EU\u2019s Recovery and Resilience Facility.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Finance Minister Nikos Papathanasis said Greece recorded growth rates well above the eurozone average in 2025 while pursuing development policies with a social focus. He described the full execution of the investment program as a concrete sign of progress.<\/p>\n<p>Papathanasis said spending under the program reached a 15-year high in 2025 and is expected to rise to 1\u20ac6.7 billion in 2026. He added that Greece ranks among the EU\u2019s top performers in absorbing European funds through the NSRF and the Recovery and Resilience Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Finance wants to boost flagging mergers and acquisitions activity by extending tax breaks to smaller&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164,8425],"class_list":{"0":"post-386720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-investments"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}