Kyriakos Mitsotakis
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I am totally unaware of these allegations, but I would like to make a point. Greece is protecting its borders. Hold on a second. It is my obligation to ensure that the borders of the European Union are protected. I'm going to be unapologetic about these policies, and I would like to inform you.
...that all the members of the European Council, through their conclusions, have made it very, very clear that we will not allow a massive influx of migrants and refugees into the European Union, and we will not repeat the mistakes of 2015. So are you saying that pushbacks... Sorry, Prime Minister, but these allegations are very serious. Serious violence, mistreatment of people. He walked away.
Historia sen osoittaa. Hyvälle johtaminen on hyvää johtamista. Ole hyvä ja anna työyhteisöllesi HSL työmatkaetu osana palkkaa. Silloin se ei maksa sinulle juuri muuta kuin viitsimistä, mutta työntekijöille se on merkittävä säästö joka kuukausi. Ole hyvä. Toivoo HSL.
Well, thanks for having me, John.
I've been advocating for quite some time about the need to create some joint European borrowing facility to cover what I consider the quintessential European public good, which is common European defense.
And I do sense that there is much more momentum now amongst my colleagues.
Some of the countries that were inherently against the idea of additional further joint borrowing have changed their mind.
And I'm pretty sure that Germany will eventually also agree to this necessity.
And we need to make sure that this facility finances projects of common interest.
And I would put missile defense, drone defense right up there in terms of our collective European priorities.
So I would expect some movement soon.
We have two European councils.
And hopefully we can make progress towards that direction.
We've been producing significant primary surpluses, and I think it's quite possible that we may have a real surplus again this year.
This is a foundation of our economic policy.
We've suffered a lot from not being fiscally disciplined.
This is not going to happen again.
But I think the big success of our policy is to ensure that the economy is growing at the same time, to create jobs.
We've created 500,000 jobs since I became prime minister.
And the real goal is to ensure that this collective wealth is spread equally.