Kyriakos Mitsotakis

In their first post-election parliamentary debate Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras traded accusations of hypocrisy and populism and the debate focused on the government's appointments to the Hellenic Competition Commission and the EYP National Intelligence Service.

Outlining his vision for the future of Greece's public administration, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Parliament on Tuesday that citizens will no longer be "hostages of bureaucracy." 

Egyptian billionaire businessman Naguib Sawiris has reportedly expressed an interest in investing in Greece.
Sawiris, who is executive chairman of Orascom Investment Holding Group, declared his intentions during a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at Maximos Mansion on Tuesday.

Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis had his first official meeting Monday at Maximos Mansion in Athens with Vice Admiral Alexandros Diakopoulos who was appointed to the new post of national security adviser to the prime minister's office last week.

Greek Parliament will vote on Tuesday night on a bill which the government says aims to streamline the administration and promote transparency.

In line with the pre-election pledge to modernize Greece's national security apparatus, which Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had reiterated at the recent meeting of the Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA), the government on Thursday appointed Vice Admiral Alexandros Diakopoulos to the new post of national security adviser to the Prime Minister's Office.

The government has announced incentives for the use of motorcycle helmets that include cutting value-added tax on protective gear from 24 percent to 13 percent.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday that the granting of voting rights to Greeks living abroad will be delinked from the new electoral law, and that he will soon table a separate provision in Parliament.

The improvement of Greece's financial indicators to levels not seen since before the financial crisis appears to be leading to the fulfillment of the high expectations cultivated by Kyriakos Mitsotakis' New Democracy party before it rose to power.
The reason for this is his administration's positive outlook as regards investments and entrepreneurship.

The word most frequently used by Greeks to describe their new government is "weird." That is not meant pejoratively. Instead, it describes the unusual speed and specificity with which Kyriakos Mitsotakis has taken to the job of prime minister. What people mean is: "This is really weird for Greece."