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POLITICS
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Less taxes by 2027
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced lower taxes for the middle class by 2027, speaking at the Council of Ministers while making extensive reference to the opposition.
SYRIZA
Socrates Famellos elected President
With 99% of the votes counted, Famellos secured 49.41% of the votes and emerged victorious over Pavlos Polakis, who secured 43.51%.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Job creation is the first priority - We brought back 300,000 Greeks
Prime Minister and President of the New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, attended the EPP Youth Conference entitled "Securing Europe's Future: Overcoming Challenges," organised in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for Greece & Cyprus and the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, hosted by ONNED in Athens.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
The Decarbonisation Fund will facilitate the islands' green transition
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was present at the signing ceremony for the establishment of the Island Decarbonisation Fund, held in Naxos.
BUDGET
Submitted to Parliament from Minister of Finance
The Minister of National Economy and Finance, Konstantinos Hatzidakis, submitted the 2025 State Budget to the Plenary Session.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Plans to speed up repayment of billions of euros in bailout loans
Greece plans to speed up repayment of billions of euros in bailout loans, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at a Bloomberg event on Monday, in another sign of the country's economic turnaround.
UNITED STATES
Supporting the Great Sea Interconnector
Speaking at COP29, US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Geoffrey Pyatt reaffirmed US support for the promotion of energy interconnection projects in the Eastern Mediterranean and called the electrical interconnection with Greece and Israel a great opportunity for Cyprus.
GOVERNMENT
Ex-PM Samaras expelled from Ruling ND Party
Former prime minister Antonis Samaras was expelled from the ruling New Democracy (ND) party on Saturday, hours after demanded the firing of Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis over what he called “appeasement” in the face of Turkish provocations.
POLL
Single-digit difference between ND and PASOK
The difference between New Democracy and PASOK is now in single digits, according to the findings of an Opinion Poll. At the same time, SYRIZA is in fifth place.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Meets with the President of Azerbaijan on the sidelines of COP29
The prospect of improving bilateral relations and the energy cooperation between the two countries were discussed during the meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan on the sidelines of the annual UN Climate Change Conference COP29.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Greece leads the way on climate change measures
Europe is a global leader in the ecological transition but will need more resources to deal with the consequences of climate change, especially natural disasters, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said today in a speech at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.