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New Democracy lawmaker and former shipping minister MIltiadis Varvitsiotis announced on Thursday he had resigned his seat in Parliament and is leaving politics, without citing a reason.

The surprise announcement was made after he informed Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this morning, sources said.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has had to cancel a planned visit to the United States after coming down with flu, government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis confirmed on Tuesday.

It took him just nine months in office in his first-ever term in government to score his first big win as head of the ministry responsible for bringing Greek bureaucracy into the digital age. This time around, as minister of education since June, it looks like his first major win in that post will come a bit sooner.

Tuesday's cabinet meeting, which was expected to address the same-sex marriage bill, is likely to be postponed due to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis contracting H1N1, his office announced on Monday.

A final decision is anticipated later in the day.

The status of his health will also influence whether Mitsotakis will be able to travel to the US later this week.

A multitude of Greek listed companies will come on the radar of major international investors next week, at the Greece Investment Forum, to be organized for the first time in New York by the Athens Stock Exchange Group in collaboration with JPMorgan. 

Greece has addressed the migration issue more effectively than most of its European counterparts, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview with journalist Richard Quest on CNN on Friday.

The Greek government is planning to speed up the submission of legislation that would legalize same-sex marriage, amid strong reactions within the Conservative party.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said the bill will extend full parental rights to gay couples but will not allow for medically assisted reproduction through a surrogate.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is scheduled to travel to Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday afternoon to participate in the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is convening a meeting of the Government Council for National Security (KYSEA) on Tuesday that is expected to bring major changes to the Greek police force's leadership.

The meeting was convened in the wake of the gangland-style assassination of a crime boss in the central Athens district of Neos Kosmos on Sunday.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will on Thursday meet European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the Davos World Economic Forum, Commission chief spokesman Eric Mamer told reporters in Brussels on Monday.

Mitsotakis will travel to Davos to participate in the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.