In the US, Mitsotakis vows to fight graft, meets investors

Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has accused Greece's leftist-led government of being under the tutelage of "a new generation of oligarchs," while vowing to reform the debt-wracked country's business environment by combating graft and safeguarding the rule of law if he becomes prime minister.

Speaking at the Global Leaders Forum organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington last week, the New Democracy leader said his duty would be to make sure Greece "does not become a failed state when it comes to its institutions."

"I am not going to be blackmailed and I'm certainly not going to be intimidated by anyone," Mitsotakis said.

Asked about Moscow's economic influence in northern Greece, also in the wake of PAOK boss Ivan Savvidis's pitch invasion with a holstered gun earlier this month and the Georgia...