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Exclusive: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Greece has come a long way since it stood on the brink of bankruptcy a decade ago. After years of painful austerity measures, tax hikes, pension cuts, and huge bailout checks, its post-pandemic economy is now outpacing the eurozone average. And despite a spying scandal, rising inflation and a tragic train crash that killed 57 people, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ center-right party tapped into underlying optimism, especially among young voters, to win a convincing victory on Sunday. He joins Christiane for his first interview after his party’s election win.  Also on today's show: Rachel Reeves, UK Labour Party’s Shadow Chancellor of Exchequer; Rich Lowry, Editor-In-Chief, National Review  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

Hope defeated pessimism and unity defeated division.

0:14.0

In a world first since he handily beat the opposition,

0:17.6

I asked Greek Prime Minister Kiryakos Mitzotakis

0:21.2

how he turned the nation from the sick man of Europe to success story.

0:26.0

Also ahead.

0:27.0

I'm here in the US to say under a Labour government, Britain will be open for business

0:32.2

and that we will restore our economic dignity both at home

0:35.1

and abroad.

0:36.1

The UK's Finance Minister in Waiting pitches back to Cool Britannia, a Britain open for

0:42.3

global business and entered Tim Scott.

0:45.4

And I'm running for a president of the United States of America.

0:54.8

As the Republicans only Black Senator

0:57.0

enters the presidential race,

0:59.0

Walter Isakson asks Rich Lowry,

1:01.2

the editor-in-chief of the National Review, who could beat Donald Trump to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montour in New York and we begin with the

1:25.2

rehabilitation of Europe's former problem child. Greece has come a long way since it stood

1:31.0

on the brink of bankruptcy a decade ago.

1:33.6

After years of painful austerity measures, tax hikes, pension cuts and huge bailout checks,

1:39.8

its post-pandemic economy is now outpacing the Eurozone average.

1:45.0

And despite a spying scandal, rising inflation and a traffic train crash that caused

1:50.9

the death of 57 people, Prime Minister Kiryakos Mitsotakis Center Right Party

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