New Greek PM Mitsotakis greets Merkel on first Berlin visit

Record ID: 1429207

  • Title: New Greek PM Mitsotakis greets Merkel on first Berlin visit
  • Date: 29th August 2019
  • Summary: CHANCELLERY
  • Embargoed: 12th September 2019 12:46
  • Keywords: new Greek prime minister New Democracy Mitsotakis Merkel German chancellery military honours
  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • City: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA003AU9STAF
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Greece's new Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrived in Berlin on Thursday (August 29) to meet with the German chancellor.
    Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis's New Democracy party won a landslide election on July 7, on pledges to cut taxes and boost growth in an economy which shrank by a quarter during a protracted debt crisis.
    Mitsotakis has promised to reduce property, income and corporate taxation, and carry out reforms on public administration to remove bureaucratic hurdles for investments.
    In a news conference following the military honours, Mitsotakis announced he wants to draw up a major investment programme with Germany, especially focused on climate protection.
    (Production: Leon Malherbe, Stefan Remter, Ute Swart, Barbara Woolsey)
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