Kyriakos Mitsotakis

The visit to the United States last week reaffirmed the fact that Greece is a stable and reliable partner of the US in an extremely volatile region, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said, addressing the Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) at a formal dinner on Monday evening.

The ministries of National Defense and Citizen Protection on Monday signed a memorandum of cooperation towards finalizing the move of Athens' largest jail complex at Korydallos district to an old NATO base in the region of Aspropyrgos, western Attica.

The reduction of the solidarity levy will be the first tax break of 2020 and will ease the burden on medium and high incomes, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday at an event which formed part of last month's 30th Greek Economic Summit of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce.

US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt on Monday described as extremely successful last week's visit to the US by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and said the upshot of the visit was the best possible.  

It is expected to be a matter of days before Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reveals his proposed nominee for the country's next president, with sources indicating that an announcement may follow the submission of the conservative government's new electoral law in Parliament this week.

Government spokesperson Stelios Petsas reiterated on Monday that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis wants to select a person who enjoys broad acceptance among political parties to be the next president.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will complete on Monday a briefing of opposition leaders on the results of his recent trip to the United States, with a meeting with Dimitris Koutsoumbas of the Greek Communist Party (KKE).

Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis briefed party leaders Friday on his visit to the US and key national issues. There was reportedly agreement on Greece's red lines, as well as the need to keep channels of communication open with Turkey, which under certain conditions could lead both countries to the International Court of Justice to resolve their differences.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis seeks consensus on major issues, especially those that concern foreign policy, his office said Friday after the completion of a series of meetings with the leaders of opposition parties during which he briefed them on the results of his visit to the United States, where mounting tension with Turkey topped the agenda.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday briefed the heads of Greece's two biggest opposition parties - leftist SYRIZA's Alexis Tsipras and center-left Movement for Change's Fofi Gennimata - on the results of his recent visit to the United States and his meeting with President Donald Trump and other US government officials in Washington, where mounting tension with Turkey topped the agenda.