Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, coming to the European Council Summit, welcomed the European Commission’s proposals to be discussed today, stressing that Greece and himself were personally fighting to convince the institutions that these changes should have been made here.

“The hours of the big decisions for the EU have arrived,” said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Mr Mitsotakis welcomed the proposals for fiscal flexibility, noting that states that spend more than 2% of their GDP on their defense should be able to do so.

At the same time, the prime minister stressed that “it is very important for this fiscal flexibility to concern all Member States. To encourage those who spend a little time spending more to reward those who already spend more and possibly allow them to spend even more on the common European defense. “

The Greek prime minister also spoke of creating new funding tools from unspeakable resources, noting that he is awaiting the specialization of the proposals.

In particular, Mr Mitsotakis said that “it is also very important that new financial tools are created by various resources of the recovery fund and this was a fixed Greek position and we expect further specialization of this proposals today and mainly in the next European Council. In the critical times we live in the strategic autonomy of the European Union must be a non -negotiable priority. “

Concerning decisions on Ukraine and its further support, the prime minister noted that the US should also be involved in this effort, as well as security guarantees.

“At the same time, in our attempt to support Ukraine to achieve a fair and sustainable solution, we must in no way abandon the effort to involve the United States in this new figure of a sustainable peace, which will be based, first and foremost,. It is important to be able to provide Ukraine security guarantees the next day and the United States should also participate in this security guarantees. And we must constantly fight to convince the United States that this is ultimately in their own interest. “

European Defense and Ukraine on the Agenda of the Summit

European leaders are aiming to approval bold measures to raise defense spending, and will reiterate their commitment to Ukraine support after suspending Military Aid to Kiev by Donald Trump, who could no longer concern Europe.

The meeting is taking place on the background of dramatic decisions on defense policy because of the fear that Russia, encouraged by the war in Ukraine, can attack some EU country.

The message that today’s geopolitical context of the constant reversals and uncertainty requires bold and ambitious measures to strengthen the defensive potential of the Member States of the European Union, which will escape the usual, is expected to be repeated by Prime Minister Kyriakos.