Greece, however, has ceased to be the black sheep of the eurozone and has made significant progress in recent years in terms of credibility with markets, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Bloomberg television on Wednesday morning.

Asked by journalist Tom Mackenzie about the election result, he said New Democracy won by more than the sum of the second and third parties, although he acknowledged that there was indeed dissatisfaction expressed over cost-of-living issues at the ballot box, which also affected New Democracy's share of the vote.

"We have set in motion an aggressive programme of reforms, and we will be judged in the 2027 national elections," Mitsotakis made clear.

On the issue of the shift of citizens across Europe towards parties of the radical right and the far right, Mitsotakis said that the pro-European alliance of the centre-right, center-left, and centre remained dominant in the new European Parliament, so the dynamic of the far right is often overestimated, despite the fact that it did indeed register a rise in the two countries—pillars of European integration—France and Germany.