During the meeting, more targeted state aid measures were examined, such as the payment of 182.7 million euros in initial aid to 50,500 beneficiaries, or the payment of 237.7 million euros to local authorities, especially support for businesses in the Palama and Farkadona municipalities.

Mitsotakis thanked those present for the invitation to attend the meeting coinciding with the first anniversary since the disastrous floods that hit the area, which he said was the "biggest natural disaster linked to climate change to have ever stricken our country."

Praising the "creative approach" adopted by local citizens in response to the disaster, he stressed that "such an ambitious plan could not be implemented without the support of local communities."

Mitsotakis also praised the handling of the sheep and goal plague, calling it exemplary, while referring to the 3.0 billion euros allocated to provide support to the region and the major infrastructure projects approved by the finance ministry.

"This is the cost of this great natural disaster. It will increase because we have not yet included the major projects and the financing of the construction of the big dams of which we will speak this afternoon. But these are, in any case, projects that we would have to carry out for Thessaly in any case," he said.

Mitsotakis stressed that things would have been much more difficult if this natural disaster had not struck at a time when the Greek economy was in a "phase of growth and fiscal stability".

Earlier, the prime minister visited the Land Registry in Larisa, where he was briefed by Digital Governance Minister Dimitris Papastergiou and Deputy Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis. The offices have been relocated to a new building and had undergone a complete overhaul, using AI to increase productivity.