The PM warned that the economy will be in recession at least this year due to the pandemic but he projected rather optimistically a strong comeback in 2021. "The recession will be great, but the recovery could be much greater in 2021."
In his first accounting to Parliament since the crisis started one month ago, Mitsotakis thanked “the overwhelming majority of citizens who have accepted the limiting of their personal freedom”.
'In a symbolic initiative, therefore, I urge all ND MPs, as well as ministers and deputy ministers, to deposit 50 pct of their salary [to help] in the fight against the coronavirus for the next two months,' the PM said.
The prime minister was judged for his leadership abilities and won the true respect of the majority of the citizenry when he was confronted with singular and unforeseen crises.
'Our struggle today is exactly to keep Greece strong and Greeks healthy. The pandemic will cost us, but it will leave us victorious, more mature, and stronger than ever so that we may lead our homeland forward.'
'The state has a constitutional mandate to care for the health of the citizenry and to intervene when the individual rights transcends its constitutional objective and threatens society.,' the PM declared.
“We are at war with an invisible but not invincible enemy,” the PM said and declared that there will be victims as “difficult days lie ahead”.
Much earlier than other countries and in a timely manner, Greece imposed strict restrictive measures with which the majority of citizens are complying.
The decision came after a number of bishops and priests took to the media to say it is impossible for the Coronavirus to be transmitted through Holy Communion.
Erdogan’s court was rife with scandals. He gave himself a 1mn dollar monthly salary, his assets were said to be worth nearly one billion dollars, and he provoked everyone.
On the purely symbolic level, however, the joint visit of Von der Leyen, European Council Co-President Charles Michel, and European Parliament President David Sassoli was intended as a message to Turkey and migrants that the EU is prepared to guard its borders.
Nineteen lawyers from Mytilini, the capital of Lesvos, have filed a lawsuit against “all bearing criminal responsibility” detailing acts of violence and egregious violation of police regulations during their operations on the island.
the government plans is to gradually phase out the use of lignite at electricity-production power plants, which includes the shutdown of existing Public Power Corporation (PPC) lignite units by 2023
Greece's political and institutional dysfunctions were revealed later when the time came for admission to the EU’s Economic and Monetary Union.
'Investors holding the nation’s debt saw returns of over 30% in the last year, according to Bloomberg Barclays indexes,' the report stated.
Some ministers give the impress that they lack an in-depth knowledge of the issues in their portfolio. In interviews they evade the question and offer platitudes, tautologies declarations about principles.
'Today the president of Turkey stated that he warned Greece’s leadership not to lay a wreath at Imia, implying that movements of the Oruc Reis were linked to the prospect of the Greek military approaching Imia,' SYRIZA stated.
This is not a case of a conflict of interest as the PM described it but is simply a case of violating the terms for conducting a clean and competitive championship.
French President Macron's remarks at a joint press conference with PM Mitsotakis are to date the clearest,most emphatic message of support of Greece’s sovereign rights.
Early on the government caved in to the blackmail and demands of particular individuals who demonstrably violated the law which prohibits the ownership of multiple football teams