Greece takes a global leadership role, but faces harsh domestic struggles

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : And while Mitsotakis, when speaking at Cop29, the controversial UN climate summit in Azerbaijan, argued for "more honesty" about its trade-offs in energy transition, asking for "more resources to prepare to save lives and livelihoods", the EU Commission rebuked Greece at home for delays in mandatory updating of its national energy and climate plan.
48% : It kept Syriza in power, despite the objections of the EU, for much of the crisis, from 2015-2019.
45% : Turkey has shown little willingness to co-operate with Greece on curbing or regulating this constant flow, despite hundreds of fatalities - many of them children - since the refugee crisis began 10 years ago.More significant, perhaps, is the fact that 50 years ago Turkey invaded the predominantly Greek island of Cyprus and remains in force, occupying approximately 40 per cent of the island, and causing a big headache not only for Greece and the ethnic Cypriot Greeks but for the United Nations, which has been trying to resolve the problem ever since.
44% : Neither neoliberalism nor the 'radical left' seems able to solve the problem in most Greek people's minds: the almost unbearable increases in the cost of livingAs Greece takes a seat at the United Nations Security Council for the 2025-2026 session, and professor Konstantinos Fountas becomes president of the council of Geneva-based Cern - the world's leading laboratory on particle physics - the country is certainly taking its place among the nations of the world.
44% : The ruling party, New Democracy, has expelled one of its former prime ministers, Antonis Samaras, for criticising the government's centrist policies, including February's legislation for same-sex marriages and its alleged "appeasement" approach to Turkey.

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