Public administration

The National Social Security Institute (NSSI) disclosed the rollout of a Single Portal for Electronic Services (SPES). This new portal consolidates various NSSI platforms and web applications aimed at managing administrative tasks related to social benefits, allowances, pensions, and claims, BTA reported.

Nasos Balerbas, secretary-general of the Interior Ministry, will replace in the coming days another ministry official who resigned over a data breach scandal in which emails were sent to diaspora voters by a Conservative European Parliamentarian, Kathimerini understands. 

For the first time, citizens in Greece will be able to rate the quality of services provided by the state through an online evaluation system, according to an Interior Ministry for improving the efficiency of the civil service. 

The platform will resemble Tripadvisor, through which customers evaluate restaurants or hotels based on the services they offer.

The new salary system for civil servants to be activated from January 1, 2024, provides for a horizontal increase of 60-70 euros for the 660,000 public sector employees.

According to Finance Ministry officials, it includes fundamental changes in the salaries of civil servants, with raises and the reinforcement of special salaries, especially for those in positions of responsibility.

Evaluating the work of civil servants is a decades-old demand of Greek society and a pre-election promise of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. It has to be done, despite the fact that employees are - naturally - reacting. It is not only trade unionists who have their own, usually oppositional, agenda. It is also the ordinary employees who are afraid.

All the new ministers will find a rather voluminous folder with the priorities of their portfolios in front of their seats during the first cabinet meeting on Wednesday. The so-called "blue folder" will serve as the guide for how ministers will move and on which axes in the coming period.

Gov.gr, the state's digital portal, is now available in the English language.

The translation of the site facilitates the access of non-Greek-speaking residents to 1,547 online government services.

Gov.gr hosts every digital service that ministries, organizations, authorities and regional and municipal councils have put online.

As part of the effort to upgrade Greece's civil service, a new special training program at the National Center for Public Administration and Local Government (EKDDA) will start in February aiming at training executives to fill key positions in the public sector. 

State asset utilization fund TAIPED is about to launch its second attempt in the last eight years to sell a 624,000 sq.m. property in an excellent location near Porto Heli in the eastern Peloponnese.

This is a piece of public land at Ververonda, which has the potential to host a small airport.

One-person companies can now be established online in five minutes via the gov.gr portal, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis announced on Friday.