PART 1: MITSOTAKIS: GREECE "WORKING WELL WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP"
Ahead of the Delphi Economic Forum Breitbart's Matt Boyle had an extensive interview with Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis about the ongoing tariffs war between the EU and US President Trump. We are reprinting the main parts.
"Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Breitbart News exclusively in an interview in his office here he believes Europe can reach a “win-win” trade deal with American President Donald Trump that is “mutually beneficial” for the United States and the European Union.
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Mitsotakis’s comments come as the EU has just launched new trade actions with regard to the United States. (...)
“There is a European message and then there is a Greek message,” Mitsotakis told Breitbart News when asked for his message to Trump during a half-hour-long interview in his office at Maximos Mansion in Greece’s capital, Athens.
“On the European front there is a possibility of finding a win-win solution when it comes to trade, a solution which will be mutually beneficial. Τhis was my firm belief from the beginning, before tariffs were announced.
There is still room for negotiations before we consider any major reciprocal response beyond what has been announced today, which, anyhow, was, the expected EU reaction. I think, at the end of the day, Europe and the European market is very important for the U.S. and U.S. is important for Europe and we need to work out a solution. (...)
There is still room for negotiations before we consider any major reciprocal response beyond what has been announced today, which, anyhow, was, the expected EU reaction. I think, at the end of the day, Europe and the European market is very important for the U.S. and U.S. is important for Europe and we need to work out a solution. (...)
When it comes to a Greek-specific message, Mitsotakis told Breitbart News he considers the United States to be a key strategic partner of the Hellenic Republic and mentioned specifically the IMEEC corridor which is a trade corridor deal that Trump has signed with a number of countries including India, Middle Eastern nations, and European nations.
Talks between Greece and India about the IMEEC Corridor were the subject of an earlier post on November 26, 2023 in these pages titled "Geopolitics: Ideology and Economic Interests" (link).
IMEEC, which stands for India-Middle East-Europe-Economic Corridor, is viewed by many in the west as a U.S.-led counter to the Chinese Communist Party’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Mitsotakis framed the IMEEC corridor as one connecting the world’s biggest democracy in India on one side, the world’s most powerful democracy in the United States on the other, and bridged in the middle by the birthplace of democracy right here in Athens where ancient leaders first tested the form of government that would dominate the west for millennia."
Mitsotakis framed the IMEEC corridor as one connecting the world’s biggest democracy in India on one side, the world’s most powerful democracy in the United States on the other, and bridged in the middle by the birthplace of democracy right here in Athens where ancient leaders first tested the form of government that would dominate the west for millennia."
“As far as Greece is concerned, we have a strategic partnership with the US,” Mitsotakis said. “And when I look at IMEEC, Greece, the birthplace of democracy, can be the bridge between the world΄s largest democracy and the most powerful, strongest democracy.
For geopolitical, economic reasons, Greece is an important ally to the U.S. I have worked with President Trump before and I can work very well with him again addressing regional challenges.” (...)
For geopolitical, economic reasons, Greece is an important ally to the U.S. I have worked with President Trump before and I can work very well with him again addressing regional challenges.” (...)
After his 2019 victory, Mitsotakis implemented strict border and migration controls in Greece which ran counter to much of the conventional wisdom among Europe’s elected leadership at the time and fit much more closely with Trump’s vision on migration—something that he argued helped steer the continent away from a more globalist and open borders Europe toward stricter migration controls.
“Greece is at the forefront of migration, a front-line country,” Mitsotakis told Breitbart News. “We followed a tough but fair migration policy and I was the first to push for border protection. When we started this policy in 2020 we were the exception in the EU, the outliers.
Now everyone in Europe understands the importance of border protection. It is not up to the smugglers to decide who enters Greece. I am unapologetically tough when it comes to border protection and open when it comes to legal migration.”
Now everyone in Europe understands the importance of border protection. It is not up to the smugglers to decide who enters Greece. I am unapologetically tough when it comes to border protection and open when it comes to legal migration.”
Greece also has economically rebounded from economic crises from before Mitsotakis’s tenure in large part thanks to his conservative economic policies. Mitsotakis told Breitbart News that these are in line with Trump’s economic vision of cutting taxes and regulations to generate economic growth.
Read the entire interview on Breitbart (link).
Read the entire interview on Breitbart (link).
Part 2 on Trump reset, Abraham Accords, energy policy.
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