Mitsotakis

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday appealed to his ministers to sustain the momentum of reform efforts as he prepared for talks on Thursday in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he does not intend to ask for a reduction of Greece's primary surplus target in his meeting with the German Chancellor in Berlin on Thursday, according to an interview published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
The post-bailout target set by Greece's lenders is for a primary surplus of 3.5 percent of GDP.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is in Berlin for meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz.

His agenda includes attracting foreign investments to Greece and presenting the government's planned reforms.

Although the political significance of Wednesday's scheduled meeting in Berlin between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and German Chancellor Angela Merkel is clear, the government on Tuesday sought to play down expectations of any developments as regards Greece's primary surplus targets.

The European Commission on Tuesday hailed a decision by the Greek government to lift the remaining barriers to the movement of capital in the country as of September, calling it an "important milestone."

Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will on Tuesday meet with Greek Archbishop Ieronymos.
The meeting is scheduled to take place at Maximos Mansion at 3.30 p.m. The agenda of the talks has not been made public.

In what is seen as a move symbolizing Greece's return to normalcy, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis Monday announced the full lifting of capital controls, earlier than the government had initially envisaged.

Greece's business sector welcomed an announcement by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday of a return to normalcy and stability with the full lifting of capital controls imposed at the peak of the financial crisis.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Parliament today announced that capital controls imposed in June, 2015, following the Tsipras' administration's botched negotiations with Greece's creditors and EU have as of today fully lifted.

Hours after conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that Greece will soon remove the last remaining capital controls imposed on bank depositors at the height of the financial crisis, former finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos accused the government of piggybacking on his administration's efforts to lift restrictions.