Kyriakos Mitsotakis

MONDAY

The foreign ministers of Balkan states will hold a meeting in Thessaloniki.

The Hellenic American Union hosts a crash course titled "Digital Marketing Like Never Before," scheduled to take place at 22 Massalias Street in Athens from 6.30 to 9.30 p.m. (Info: www.hau.gr)

TUESDAY

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held talks in Brussels on Friday with the leaders of Germany Angela Merkel, France Emmanuel Macron, Spain Pedro Sanchez, Italy Giuseppe Conte and Portugal Antonio Costa in a bid to break a deadlock in negotiations for the European Union's 2021-2027 budget.

As he arrived on Thursday for a two-day summit in Brussels to hammer out the European Union's joint seven-year budget, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for "active solidarity" from the bloc to help Greece deal with migration.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday approved the expansion of the Greece 2021 committee, which is responsible for designing and supervising a program of celebrations to mark the bicentennial anniversary of Greece's War of Independence against Ottoman rule.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his deep shock at the Thursday killing of nine people by a suspected far-right extremist in the German western town of Hanau.

The three trends within the ruling party are well known and are generally represented by current Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and former premiers Antonis Samaras and Costas Karamanlis.

Greece's recent overtures toward two of the largest economies of the Gulf - highlighted by the recent visits of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi - are strategic and historically well placed. Despite the drop in oil prices, both countries are very asset rich.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on Wednesday with Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, United Arab Emirates Minister of State, at the Maximos Mansion.

On Sakellaropoulou's desk, directly behind the speaker, who was giving a long-winded speech, was a picture of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her face stamped on a memorabilia coffee cup. The 86-year-old US Supreme Court judge is a global icon for women's rights and liberal causes generally.

US Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Photo: EPA-EFE/TANNEN MAURY

The much-touted draft legislation on reform of the insurance system that was tabled in Parliament on 17 February is a far cry from the expectations that New Democracy had cultivated before it came to power.

It is certainly not the type of structural reform of the insurance system that the country needs.