Mitsotakis, Merkel agree on ‘green investment plan’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday discussed the prospects for investments in Greece and Europe's migration problem in their first meeting since the latter was elected, reportedly seeing eye-to-eye on both issues.

During the closely watched meeting in Berlin, the two leaders agreed to devise a "green investment plan" for 2020-2030 and to hold a joint investment forum in the first quarter of next year.

Mitsotakis expressed to Merkel his government's "sincere appetite for deep, structural changes" that would go beyond the austerity measures imposed on Greece by its foreign bailouts, and said he looked forward to a "paradigm shift" in bilateral relations.

Merkel, for her part, said that "much progress has been achieved" and pointed to an improved climate which, she said, would make it easier for Greece to honor...