Greece’s Mitsotakis Gets ‘Show Me’ Treatment From Investors
- The new prime minister’s first 100 days likely to set the tone
- Stalled projects, tax cuts, corruption among top priorities
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For a glimpse of what life under Kyriakos Mitsotakis may look like, Greeks need only to look over their shoulders to five years ago.
As the country plumbed the depths of its financial crisis, Mitsotakis, then the administrative reform and e-governance minister, oversaw the firing of thousands of state employees on demands from creditors. He then scrapped the right of civil servants to take six extra days off a year if they worked at computer screens for more than five hours a day, calling it an “anachronistic” privilege.