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Earlier, Mr. Mitsotakis attended service at the Ecumenical Patriarchate, on the occasion of the ecclesiastical feast day of the Sunday of Orthodoxy
Responding to criticism from main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras that the government did not send parliamentary approval to send arms, Mitsotakis underlined that ethnic Greek in Eastern Ukraine have been killed in the Russian attack.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexandros Papaioannou publicly refuted Russian claims that the 10 Greeks were killed by Ukrainian ultra-right, neoNazi forces that are active in the region and said that Athens has proof that the Greeks were killed by Russian forces.
The Mariupol (Marioupoli) area has a large community of diaspora Greeks numbering to around 150,000
Mitsotakis described the energy problem as European-wide, that it demands a comprehensive EU-wide solution, and that this may require European funding tools in order to deal with energy price hikes as long as necessary.
Mitsotakis made the statement, while on an official visit to Bucharest, during an intervention in an extraordinary European People’s Party (EPP) tele-conference called by EPP President Donald Tusk.
The Prime Minister referred to the infrastructure, culture, innovation projects that are being implemented and to significant Greek and foreign investments by large companies.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis won the 2019 general election based on the expectation that he would change the country. That was his pledge and it fuelled expectations among the majority of voters.
The Hellenic Air Force officially accepted six fourth-generation Rafale warplanes.
Government spokesman Yannis Economou said today that 'Our policy is to leave nobody unprotected in this wave of inflation, and at the same time we will not endanger either the stabilisation of the Greek economy or its growth prospects.'
'If there is a total lockdown beginning on 3 January, it will last one month, but if we reach 16 January then we believe that there will again be 6,000 new infections confirmed daily, then it will extend through March,' Sarigiannis said.
Mr. Mitsotakis referred to the applications of artificial intelligence in various fields, such as autonomous driving
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin.
'It is perfectly clear that the government has not taken the necessary decisions to support the public health system as much as he it should have based on the current pandemic conditions, and that should be done,' the centre-lefty party leader declared.
The Prime Minister stressed that the de-escalation in Ukraine would be to the benefit of all, noting that coordinated sanctions would be imposed in case of aggressive actions.
'Let every citizen judge whether this is acceptable and draw the conclusions,” Lytras said, noting that the he and Tsiodras, as was their duty as servants of public health, they immediately and repeatedly shared the data to decision makers at the highest level.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be in the fire-stricken North Evia today, accompanied by a number of ministers and executives of the relevant ministries
Government spokesman Yannis Economou lashed out at Tsipras over two tweets yesterday of the opposition leader that appeared to tacitly adopt the allegations of the Federation of Hospital Workers that ICU beds are set aside for VIP COVID-19 patients,