Kyriakos Mitsotakis

With Europeans set to elect a new EU Parliament in June, the bloc needs to focus on defense cooperation, boosting its competitiveness against top global players and ensuring its food security, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said, outlining the three "big issues" that lie ahead for the bloc. 

"So a Russian ballistic missile nearly killed the Greek prime minister as he was visiting Odesa with Zelensky today. The Greek prime minister. The leader of the NATO and EU member with the largest sympathies for Russia," Yaroslav Trofimov, chief foreign affairs correspondent of The Wall Street journal and author, commented on X on the day of the attack.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed satisfaction with the upgrade of European Union relations with Egypt to a Comprehensive and Strategic Partnership, according to government sources commenting on the meeting, in Cairo, with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday.

The European Union announced a 7.4 billion euro funding package and an upgraded relationship with Egypt, part of a push to stem migrant flows to Europe that has been criticized by rights groups.

The US Ambassador spoke about the upcoming visit of Kyriakos Mitsotakis to the US, saying that Greek-American relations are at a historic high

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, along with five more European leaders, will travel to Cairo Sunday.

The other leaders are European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer and the Prime Ministers of Belgium, Alexander De Croo, and Italy, Giorgia Meloni.

Representatives of farmers from the region of Thessaly in central Greece said Friday after a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that forcing them to abandon the cultivation of cotton would be a "red line" to them. 

Tax revenues and the primary result of the budget in January and February exceeded the target, but this is largely counted in the 2023 budget, per the Finance Ministry. Therefore, for 2024, there is currently no significant fiscal space for benefits.

Farmers' representatives have said they are generally positive after a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at his office in Athens on Friday.

Leftist SYRIZA opposition leader Stefanos Kasselakis has reacted to the ruling New Democracy party's decision to exclude MEP Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou from their candidate list for the European elections, labeling it as political tactics. Asimakopoulou is accused of using an official, non-public voter register for campaigning.