Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras can no longer maintain that the trial of a top party cadre by a Special Court is a conspiracy designed by his opponents.

Regardless of whether the PM is right when he says that “The worst is behind us”, he sent a clear message to everyone that combating inflation is the government’s top priority.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis went to the summit prepared for all possible scenarios and with a determination to defend Greece’s red lines and unswervingly oppose revisionism.

Despite the evolving crises in Europe, there is a common denominator and a mutual understanding between EU member-states in approaching issues of social cohesion and the EU acquis.

The PM and his advisors must rev up their engines and make haste in order to accomplish what they did not have time to do due to successive crises over the last years.

Energy costs have doubled and in some cases tripled for households and businesses since a year ago and the situation has literally battered a huge percentage of Greek households.

In his interviews and public appearances, main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras declares the need to 'separate the state from the party' and talks about 'meritocratic institutions'.

Τηλεφωνική επικοινωνία με την γερμανίδα καγκελάριο, Άνγκελα Μέρκελ είχε ο έλληνας πρωθυπουργός, Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης

Pyatt in a very upbeat tweet said the Ross-Georgiadis meeting touched 'on plans for government reforms that will attract more US investment'.

Emmanuel Macron's statement demonstrates the understanding that faced with a world of old and emerging super-powers Europe cannot but tread the path of solidarity and unity.

From the first moment the government requested European assistance with the dispatch of eight Canadair aircraft.

The talks came amidst heightened tensions between the Republic of Cyprus and Turkey, which is conducting illegal drilling for hydrocarbons in Cyprus’ EEZ.

A barrage of draft legislation which signals the government’s outlook and overall plan will be tabled in Parliament.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the Greek government’s programme offers better growth prospects.

Avramopoulos stressed that cooperation with Turkey is essential and that good cooperation will yield positive results.

Ministers were given detailed information on how the work of ministries will be monitored and the collaboration of the various levels of the state bureaucracy.

The PM’s personal ambitions concern the entire country. His wager is a wager that concerns the social whole.

Immediately after the ceremony Mitsotakis walked to the PM’s Maximos Mansion offices next door where outgoing PM Alexis Tsipras briefed him on critical current affairs of state.

The cabinet is scheduled to be sworn in on 9 July and the first cabinet meeting is scheduled for 10 July.

'Today we Greeks have a duty to honour our highest right as citizens. We are taking the fate of Greece in our hands and we are choosing the future of our children,' Marinakis said.

Mitsotakis has indicated that he is prepared to tap technocrats and individuals who are not members of the party to assume cabinet posts.

'If he wins, Kyriakos Mitsotakis will have to grapple with everything that Alexis Tsipras omitted: An almost bankrupt Public Power Corporation, a problematic public sector, and non-performing loans,' the German daily states in a news analysis.

Will citizens return to the polls en masse just 40 days after the European Parliament election or will they choose to take to the beaches?

'Mr. Mitsotakis is now telling us ‘Mitsotakis or chaos.’ He is crudely blackmailing the Greek people but they are not buying it. They want political stability and not adventures,' the Movement for Change leader declared.

After defeating SYRIZA by nearly ten percentage points in the 26 May European Parliament election, Mitsotakis hopes to ride the wave of what George H.W. Bush had famously called “the big mo”, political momentum.

'Now that SYRIZA’s MEP was not [re-]elected, does anyone know if she will be going back to work? I am looking for a woman for general cleaning on Saturday and I still have not found one!' said Kostas Stefanidis. 

The main opposition party chose not to outdo the government as regards promises of benefits and citizens appeared to have rewarded it for that prudent stance at the ballot box.

Tsipras opted for a major gamble by framing the election as a referendum on his stimulus package and for the first time in nearly four years he lost the bet.

'The electoral result does not satisfy me and I will not ignore it…I cannot ignore it. The final verdict is always delivered by the people. I will not escape,' the PM said.

The looming question now is whether the PM will call a general election immediately or wait until October when his term ends in an effort to turn the tide.

Mitsotakis’ choice of Thessaloniki for his final outdoors campaign speech was linked to his staunch opposition to the Greece-North Macedonia Prespa Agreement, which is very unpopular there.

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis - whose brother-in-law and conservative MP Pavlos Bakoyannis was murdered by N17 in September, 1989 – said yesterday that he will respect and not comment on any ruling by the high court but that if he comes to power he will change the law

The main opposition News Democracy leader spoke of a well-planned,multi-pronged campaign to bring the genocide to the attention of the world.

Then alternate citizen’s protection minister Nikos Toskas, who was in charge of Greek police, in an apparent effort at plausible deniability declared today that the Prime Minister had not been informed of the deaths because they had not been “officially confirmed”

This government has instituted measures which previous ones would never have considered. It tied up state assets by handing them over to the Asset  Development Fund, cut pensions, and passed a law lowering the tax-free threshold.