The Annual Report of the Court of Audit for 2025 was delivered today to the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Nikitas Kaklamanis, by the President of the Supreme Fiscal Court, Sotiria Ntouni.
In the summary of the Report, it is noted that in 2025, despite the particularly increased workload that had to be managed (increase of 14%), by utilizing the fast-track procedure for hearing cases, the Supreme Court fully met the relevant challenge.
It is also pointed out that 5,138 court decisions were issued, corresponding to 28,714 applications for judicial protection. As characteristically stated, these numbers “demonstrate its high productivity towards accelerating the delivery of justice”.
The Court of Audit, according to its annual Report, investigated critical current issues with a deep social, environmental, and fiscal footprint, which, as emphasized, were the subject of thematic audits aimed at highlighting systemic dysfunctions.
Targeted recommendations are also made to the administration for the promotion of necessary reforms, in order to effectively address the pathologies that were diagnosed.
In 2025, the new Integrated Information System of the Court of Audit was also put into full operation and the integration of Artificial Intelligence into its work was designed through the “Virtual Judge Assistant”.
In her message, included in the preface of the Report, Ms. Ntouni emphasizes that “special emphasis must be given to the general recommendation we address to the administration, resulting from the audit we conduct on the State’s Account of the Balance Sheet and other Financial Statements, in conjunction with what is mentioned in the Report on Fiscal Sustainability, regarding the effective management of overdue debts to the State and Social Security Agencies”.
As she points out, “the continuous and persistent increase of these debts, which have ended up corresponding to 66.5% of GDP, constitutes a major structural problem and requires immediate attention and resolution”.
The President of the Parliament, upon receiving the Report, thanked the President of the Court of Audit for the thorough and useful information provided and informed her that he would forward the Annual Report to the Special Standing Committee on Institutions and Transparency.