Kyriakos Mitsotakis

In a message on Twitter, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis paid tribute to the student Thanos Axarlian who was the accidental victim of an attack by the now defunct terrorist group November 17 in 1992.

Axarlian died on Karageorgi Servias Street after being hit by a rocket that had been aimed at the then Finance Minister Yiannis Palaiocrassas.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is to receive European Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos at 10 a.m. on Monday at the Maximos Mansion.

The premier is to chair a meeting from 10.30 a.m. on migrant influxes and migration policy with Avramopoulos, Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis and the alternate minister for migration policy, Giorgos Koumoutsakos.

The governmental organisational chart presented by incoming Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is by all accounts innovative and is the first reform at the highest administrative level of the country.

Essentially it is the first attempt to apply principles and rules of corporate governance that have existed for decades in the private sector to the government and the state.

Shortly before Greece's recent election, the gifted orator and then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras delivered a rousing speech to a cheering throng of supporters, at one point declaring that his main opponent could not achieve what Tsipras was experiencing at that moment: an adoring crowd. "They can't have a rally like this one," he said.

The high primary surplus targets may be one of the toughest legacies passed down to the new administration by the Alexis Tsipras government.

Bank of Greece chief Yannis Stournaras announced on Friday that he will propose the immediate lifting of all remaining capital controls, more than four years after restrictions were imposed by the previous government.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is having a meeting at his office with Finance Minister Christos Staikouras and his three deputies - Apostolos Vessyropoulos, Thodoros Skylakakis and George Zavvos - about the government policy statement to be made in Parliament next week and the new tax bill, which is expected to cut some income and indirect taxes, although probably not as much as the new gov

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (l) and Education Minister Niki Kerameus are seen outside the Education Ministry Friday. The new government announced its intention to scrap the so-called university asylum law and to freeze plans to establish a fourth law school in Patra, western Greece.

For Kyriakos Mitsotakis' government to succeed where many others failed, it will take more than "seriousness, humility and speed for an effective policy," as the prime minister put it.

Newly-appointed Labour and Social Affairs Minister Nikos Vroutsis has rescinded an encyclical signed by three SYRIZA ministers on 20 June, a bit over two weeks before the general election, which simplified procedures for the issuance of the AMKA social security number for  non-EU nationals and in particular for migrants, asylum seekers, and unaccompanied refugee children.