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Kyriakos Mitsotakis

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Prime Minister of Greece, member of New Democracy party.

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"Vagia Nestora's death had exposed the 'murderous and inhumane nature' of political violence and called for a united response to 'banish terrorism to... the margins.'"
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"Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece has a plan ..."
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"Military assistance provided to Cyprus is strictly defensive."
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"The loss of the Greek coordinator and Danish pilot fills us all with grief."
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"Many young people tell me they feel exhausted from comparisons, from comments, from the pressure to always be online."
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"But the addictive design of certain applications, and a business model based on capturing your attention - on how long you stay in front of a screen - takes away your innocence and your freedom. That has to stop somewhere."
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"I don’t think that the international community would be ready to accept Iran setting up a toll booth for every ship that crosses the strait."
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"I don't think that the international community would be ready to accept Iran setting up a toll booth for every ship that crosses the strait."
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"If something makes us feel more anxious or worse, lesser than who we really are, then it’s perhaps best that we put a stop to it."
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"Greece will be among the first countries to take such an initiative."
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"We have decided to go ahead with a difficult but necessary measure: ban access to social media for children under 15 years old."
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"We have decided to go ahead with a difficult but necessary measure: ban access to social media for children under 15 years old."
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"Our aim is not to keep you away from technology but to combat addiction to certain applications that harms your innocence and your freedom."
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"Science is clear: when a child is in front of screens for hours, their brain does not rest."
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"The move would protect children’s mental health, smooth psychosocial development, and also their privacy and personal data while also strengthening the role of parents and guardians."
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"preliminary discussions have begun regarding certain proposals by President Macron, given that France is the only country currently possessing nuclear deterrent power in the European Union."
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"Greece will be among the first countries to take such an initiative."
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"Nobody would seriously contemplate cutting what survives of the tapestry in two and displaying half in London and half in Bayeux, and claiming this was an adequate way to understand it."
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"I do not believe it does."
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"Greece cannot accept any arrangement that would require it to recognise the British Museum's ownership of the sculptures, or a scheme that would mean we 'borrow' parts of our own monument."
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"This would be a decisive step that would reunite the sculptures and transform a historic dispute into a unique act of cultural friendship."
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