Kyriakos Mitsotakis
speaker
95 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 14 Apr
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I see value.
when an important foreign bank wants to acquire a stake in a Greek bank.
It means they believe in the potential of the Greek economy, and it means that the bank could possibly do better.
I'm pushing my banks to extend more credit to mortgages, to small, medium-sized enterprises.
The stronger their balance sheet is, the more likely it is that they will lose.
So, yes, in principle, we are in favor of these transactions, and I'm happy that Unicredit has decided to look at one of our Greek banks and take a significant stake.
I think most of the important... If you want to understand what's happening in Brussels, look at the national capitals.
I think there's...
The council has become more complicated in terms of taking decisions.
But on the other hand, you know, in the past, we took a moment of decision when we had to address COVID.
Is Ukraine a geopolitical COVID moment?
I would argue to a certain extent, yes.
And I remember the COVID fund negotiations.
There were a lot of countries, including Germany, that said no until they said yes.
So when it comes to defense, which, as I said, is the ultimate European public good,
I do expect that we will be able to take important decisions to target specific European projects, which would then again require European collaboration.
We have clearly turned the page.
But as I said, if we want to converge with Europe, we need to grow faster than Europe.
We've been doing this.
But this growth needs to be qualitatively different.
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