The promises could reinvigorate the image of his newly elected government that has been tarnished by footage of residents taking refuge on their roofs in desperate need of rescue as rising waters engulfed poorly prepared regions.
"Greece is facing a war in a time of peace," Mitsotakis said in his Thessaloniki International Fair keynote speech on Saturday.
"Over a two-week period, we experienced the worst wildfire and the worst floods in our history," he added.
"The climate crisis requires the mobilisation of the whole of society," he added on Sunday on the sidelines of the fair.
Floods devastated the fertile Thessaly plain in central Greece in early September.
The preceding storm killed 17 people, swallowed cotton crops and fruit trees and killed hundreds of thousands of animals on Greece's breadbasket.
The country was already grappling with "the biggest fire ever recorded in the EU", according to a European Commission spokesman, in the northeast region of Evros bordering Turkey.
Twenty-eight people were killed in the blaze, among them two firefighting pilots and 20 migrants in the Evros region.
It followed violent flames that ravaged the tourist islands of Rhodes and Corfu in July, with thousands of evacuations ordered.
-'Restart'-
Mitsotakis also pledged a 10 percent rebate on property tax for anyone who insures their home against natural disasters, adding he is considering making such insurance compulsory.
The Sunday daily Protothema saw these announcements as "a restart" for the government.
The conservative leader admitted a certain "confusion of responsibilities" between the state services responsible for responding to torrential rains, as well as "the frequent tendency" to shift blame to others.
"In Thessaly and Evros, I have heard the anger of the people," said the prime minister, whose New Democracy (ND) party won an absolute majority in the June parliamentary elections.
His government has since been blasted by the opposition and residents affected by the floods for the slowness of emergency services and the lack of preparedness.
Fingers were pointed at failures in cooperation between the army and civil protection in the hours following the disaster.
But the leader dismissed his critics' arguments.
Anyone who thinks that another country would have handled the storm and its extensive flooding better is "completely wrong", he said on Sunday.
- No reshuffle -
In just three months in office, the Mitsotakis has seen two of his ministers resign, including one in charge of citizen protection, because he was on holiday on an island in the Aegean Sea while fires raged.
The Greek press has speculated a cabinet reshuffle will follow local elections on October 8.
However, Mitsotakis insisted on Sunday that he had "no intention of reshuffling" the cabinet.
The Mitsotakis government bears "enormous responsibility" for the destruction caused by the extreme weather, said Effie Achtsioglou, former labour minister and candidate for the presidency of the left-wing Syriza party.
She condemned the fact that "no serious flood prevention work has been carried out".
According to a poll for the private television channel Mega, 61 percent of those questioned have a negative image of the government and 66 percent believe that the country is heading in the wrong direction.
Libya accident kills 4 Greek aid team members: ministry
Derna, Libya (AFP) Sept 17, 2023 -
Four members of a Greek humanitarian aid team, sent to Libya after the devastating floods that hit Derna, were killed in a road accident on Sunday, a Libyan minister said.
Othman Abdeljalil, health minister in the administration that runs the east of the country, told reporters the accident occurred when the team was en route from Benghazi to Derna, 300 kilometres (185 miles) to the east.
The Libyan health minister said the accident took place when the vehicle collided with a car carrying a Libyan family. Three people in the car died and two were seriously injured, he said.
"The Greek aid team was made up of 19 members. Four of them died and the other 15 were injured," Abdeljalil told a press conference in Derna.
"Eight are in a stable condition and the other seven are critical," he added.
Greek General Staff of National Defence in a statement late Sunday confirmed the accident but gave a different death toll.
It announced that three members of the Greek humanitarian mission in Libya have died and two were missing.
Initially the Greek authorities, in a statement, had spoken only of "minor injuries" among the team members.
The Greek army statement said an operation to collect their personnel in Benghazi and repatriate them was underway.
Greece sent, on Sunday morning, humanitarian aid to the areas of Libya struck by the lethal floods of "Storm Daniel", actively demonstrating Greek solidarity with the Libyan people, the foreign ministry said.
The aid was in the form of medical and nursing staff that had already arrived in a Hellenic Air Force C-130 plane sent to Benghazi, as well as medical supplies and food.
At the order of Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis, the aid was accompanied by the Greek General Consul in Benghazi, Ambassador Stavros Venizelos, so that he might provide diplomatic assistance to the operation.
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