15.07.2019
Mitsotakis, Avramopoulos discuss migration, six government priorities
Avramopoulos stressed that cooperation with Turkey is essential and that good cooperation will yield positive results.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
10.07.2019
Mitsotakis stresses transparency, efficiency in ‘new governance model’
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.
09.07.2019
Editorial: Success is everyone’s affair
The PM’s personal ambitions concern the entire country. His wager is a wager that concerns the social whole.
08.07.2019
Mitsotakis sworn in as PM after landslide victory
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.
07.07.2019
Mitsotakis wins in landslide, Tsipras announces ‘dynamic opposition’
The cabinet is scheduled to be sworn in on 9 July and the first cabinet meeting is scheduled for 10 July.
07.07.2019
Marinakis welcomes political change following elections
'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.
05.07.2019
Lowering primary surplus target, restructuring state top priorities says Mitsotakis
Mitsotakis has indicated that he is prepared to tap technocrats and individuals who are not members of the party to assume cabinet posts.
03.07.2019
Expected Mitsotakis victory welcomed by FAZ as opportunity for Greece
'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.
30.06.2019
Editorial: The path to recovery
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?
28.06.2019
Gennimata: Mitsotakis slams Mitsotakis for ‘blackmailing’ voters to get strong mandate
'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.
07.06.2019
Mitsotakis runs on tax cuts growth platform as Tsipras says ND stands for austerity
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.
28.05.2019
Mitsotakis expels from ND cadre over vulgar attack against Kuneva
'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.
28.05.2019
Editorial: Restraint
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.
27.05.2019
ND enters general election race with air of victory, SYRIZA devastated
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.
27.05.2019
Tsipras calls for snap election in June after stinging defeat in EU poll
'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.
26.05.2019
SYRIZA trails ND in Europarliament election exit poll
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.
24.05.2019
Mitsotakis wraps up campaign, slams Tsipras on Prespa Accord, handouts, security, taxes
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.
23.05.2019
After hunger strike, anarchist attacks, Supreme Court opens way for Koufodinas’ furlough
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
