Mitsotakis, Costa, Meloni to meet Fri morning

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet with his Italian and Portuguese colleagues, Giorgia Meloni and Antonio Costa, Friday morning on the sidelines of the European Union summit to discuss a coordinated position on issues of economic governance.

State Athens New Agency reported that the tripartite meeting was scheduled on Mitsotakis' initiative.

ANA-MPA also reported that Mitsotakis believes that economic governance is an issue that needs to be extensively discussed at the European leaders' level and not just the Eurogroup, the informal body made up of the 20 Euro area finance ministers.

During Thursday night's dinner, the 27 leaders focused on trade under the new geopolitical conditions brought about by the war in Ukraine.

They also discussed energy, issues of transition and strengthening the emergency planning process, as winter ends and creating...