Digital Decade 2026 country report: Greece digital infrastructure progress
The European Commission published the Digital Decade 2026 country report for Greece assessing progress, gaps and policy recommendations and listing concrete projects and funding commitments.
Main announcement & key measures: The Commission’s staff working document presents Greece’s 2026 Digital Decade country report, noting concrete assets such as the legally established AI Factory ‘Pharos’ (2025), the Hellenic Chips Competence Center (HCCC; funding ~EUR 7.26 million co-funded by the EU), and major public investments: Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) digital allocation EUR 7.8 billion and cohesion policy EUR 3.1 billion. It records flagship infrastructure projects and budgets including the Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFBB) investment ≈ EUR 745 million (≈ EUR 251 million from EU structural funds) covering an estimated 830,000 households and businesses, the Mission Critical Networks tender (budget: EUR 180 million), and roadmap totals of EUR 6.1 billion public + EUR 7 billion private ≈ EUR 13.1 billion for planned measures.
Background, timelines and project details: The report documents multi-country and national projects and schedules: submarine-cable programmes (SEA SPINE: 563 km submarine links + 231 km terrestrial), the East-Aegean Network (~1,300 km submarine + 280 km terrestrial, design capacity up to 20 Tbps per fibre), quantum projects SEEWQCI and TransEuroOGS starting 01/01/2026 for 42 months, and the UFBB contract phases delivering 10,000 end-users since Dec 2025 and a further 10,000 by March 2026. It is an official Commission publication (SWD(2026) 155 annex) — an announcement/report rather than a press release of a private deal.