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Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has an inside look at how the country is positioning itself as a refreshed hub for innovation, investment, and participation from the world’s technology industry. During a StrictlyVC event in Athens, Mitsotakis explored everything from policy changes to new global partnerships, and behind Greece’s tech momentum — plus a peek…

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63 Comments

  1. @CryptoRubik_YT

    May 8, 2025 at 9:31 pm

    aint nobody innovating in europe

    • @iliasg1750

      May 9, 2025 at 2:09 am

      Actually, it boasts a very healthy startup ecosystem. Not so much for crypto folks tho

    • @OnigoroshiZero

      May 10, 2025 at 1:36 pm

      @@iliasg1750 no AI, no robotics, no battery cell production or tech/innovation, no space or rockets (at least what we have is laughable at best compared to SpaceX, and not even competitive with the Russian and Chinese rockets), no chip manufacturing, no big software companies (including social media or video platforms), no EVs.
      In what important technological field are we even competitive? Because we are not leading anything.

      At best we may be considered competitive in Fusion Energy research, but even that is arguable, the results will be clear in 6-10 years from now.

    • @OnigoroshiZero

      May 10, 2025 at 1:37 pm

      You speak facts.
      Even India is making the entire EU look like a joke when it comes to technological innovation.

    • @skypickle29

      May 10, 2025 at 6:37 pm

      maybe it is about financial engineering innovation. after all, this is tech crunch.

    • @secretname4190

      May 11, 2025 at 5:35 am

      @@OnigoroshiZero Stop consuming American propaganda about Europe please thanks

  2. @MoisiGuri-y1r

    May 9, 2025 at 10:10 am

    Po po vjedhin e dalin lider në ajdutëri.

  3. @PanayiotisPapadopoulos

    May 9, 2025 at 4:28 pm

    Go Delian! 16:26

  4. @MoisiGuri-y1r

    May 10, 2025 at 8:05 am

    Pordhë me rigon Greqia më zi se në SHQIPËRI.

  5. @George-z4d

    May 10, 2025 at 10:36 am

    Mitsotakis is clearly the man for the moment in Greece.

    • @NoelKoutlis

      May 10, 2025 at 1:21 pm

      νδ χρεος 500 εκ…

    • @OnigoroshiZero

      May 10, 2025 at 1:41 pm

      He is clearly not the man for any moment in Greece. He is just the best puppet for the others.
      Everyone is laughing at Greece right now, and the ones laughing (from within European borders or neighbors) are themselves the laughing stock of the rest of the world. This makes clear the place of Greece on the global map (we are nothing).

    • @portcontainer9727

      May 11, 2025 at 8:16 am

      And you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about.

    • @GeorgeGkonis

      May 11, 2025 at 8:42 am

      @@NoelKoutlisδε έχετε βαρεθεί αυτή τη καραμέλα;

    • @NoelKoutlis

      May 11, 2025 at 8:46 am

      @GeorgeGkonis  μίλησε ο τύπος που πουλάει γλυφιτζουρια

    • @elbmw

      May 11, 2025 at 10:32 am

      @George-z4d Not just for the moment. We have to remember where the country was before 2019. For once, there is a PM in Greece that is actually making long term plans for the benefit of Greece while at the same time trying to reverse decades of fiscal ineptitude while keeping the Turks at bay. I have no idea if he will succeed in the long term but at least he’s trying to do the right things. If anything, he does not get the credit he deserves, in my opinion. And all I see is constant criticism, instead of support. I wouldn’t do that job for all the money in the world.

  6. @tiusernamenabalw

    May 10, 2025 at 11:31 am

    Reform the sick public sector and the anti-entrepreneurial mentality of the majority; the rest is just PR Mr Mitsotakis and we have had enough of it. And the saddest thing is that you are the most Busienss friendly PM we have had since I can remember…

    • @SpartaN-LaconiC

      May 10, 2025 at 5:17 pm

      You don’t have the slightest idea how much Greece has been changed in the background, how much work our people put, like, our IRS departments, our Ministry of Digitization, etc., since 2009. These can’t happen overnight. We’ve had the plans to start ’em in 2008, but we all know what happened in 2009. In 2019 the programs re-started and already came to fruition. The last trimester alone which is considered the only one which isn’t “Touristic Season,” we’ve eventually had a surplus of 10,5B. The black money in Greece are too much. Those we hunt and up o a point we succeeded. As our PM said, we still have work to do. Patience is bitter, but it’s fruit is sweet, as Aristotle said. For once, just stop the complaining about anything, every time. Be optimist and patient. Lastly, ask yourself, what have you done for your country? It’s an important question for all of us. Politicians don’t fall off of the sky. They’re our neighbors. We all need to keep getting better, from the smaller to the bigger issues.

      Complain, complain, complain, we lead us to nowhere. At best, it’ll lead us to stagnation. It’s tiring. Learn to praise where credit is due.

    • @directorchris2

      May 11, 2025 at 5:27 am

      rockerfeller= pasoc hates competition/businessmen as the 9 11 whistleblower confessed before his poison myrder

    • @portcontainer9727

      May 11, 2025 at 8:18 am

      Sucker

    • @elbmw

      May 11, 2025 at 11:30 am

      @@SpartaN-LaconiC Finally, someone that understands what is going on. Well said. I don’t know why grown men and women believe that the PM has a magic wand and a crystal ball and could, if he wanted to, fix all Greece’s problems in a day. I don’t understand the constant criticism by some commenters. I do wonder if they are from across the sea who come to these pages to provoke. I can understand why those across the sea would want Mitsotakis out but Greeks criticising someone thats trying to save them? What’s that about?

  7. @MoisiGuri-y1r

    May 10, 2025 at 4:02 pm

    Ka ca grekë këtej nga Shqipëria ky Micotaqi ça do bëijë me këta ,do besoinë apo ti në BE,se nuk mbaj për mish këtej nga Shqipëria, se duhet besim jo qen e ujkë se punoin dhe vetë .

  8. @georgekrax

    May 10, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    You mean the increased misleading data?

  9. @akisdrosi2011

    May 10, 2025 at 4:19 pm

    Llooooooool you guys must be either delusionalists or just paid propagandists. As a Greek, who has been living abroad since 2014, I can assure you that “Greece” and the terms “innovation”, “investment” and “technology” just don’t go together. And that is the case regardless of who is the prime minister. Greece is in love with corruption, collusion and nepotism.

    By far the most ridiculous video I’ve watched for a while now.

  10. @itsallatrick

    May 10, 2025 at 4:43 pm

    62% of “investments” in greece is just incomw from golden visa and home purchase tax. THIS IS NOT TRUE GROWTH

  11. @itsallatrick

    May 10, 2025 at 4:45 pm

    His party owes half a billion euros

  12. @algora-io

    May 10, 2025 at 10:07 pm

    This was really good

  13. @filika10

    May 10, 2025 at 10:24 pm

    Demographic transformation is that is happening secretly in Greece

    • @portcontainer9727

      May 11, 2025 at 8:28 am

      Yeah, soon the official language with be arabic and the official religion you know what.

  14. @Μπαμπηςατρου

    May 11, 2025 at 2:09 am

    Just lies and fake promises as always, one of the most untrustworthy priminister. Next elections he is out

  15. @TomOffgrider

    May 11, 2025 at 2:23 am

    Anything the governments do is to give their own gang and their donors more money and power, they tax the individual and destroy the individual, they want you to eat and drink, watch and talk about sht and never want you to get some chickens. Its all a Matrix designed to benefit the ruling gang which is modern and doesnt sem like an old fashion obvious gang like a dictatorship, it is tho. Time will reveal that but right now its not obvious to most.

  16. @costasmanoleas3527

    May 11, 2025 at 2:28 am

    Completely useless film

    • @portcontainer9727

      May 11, 2025 at 8:29 am

      Propaganda is never useless. It fools the suckers.

    • @jo77716

      May 11, 2025 at 2:22 pm

      Soulless, spineless Rich Boy

    • @descloutier594

      May 12, 2025 at 10:52 am

      I guessed after the deal with EU closed, Mitsotakis paid her for the propaganda.

  17. @Nevio857

    May 11, 2025 at 4:58 am

    Yaaay come work for 1000€ per month ❤

    • @Kostasthirty3

      May 11, 2025 at 7:06 am

      740

    • @Nevio857

      May 11, 2025 at 7:34 am

      @@Kostasthirty3 Never received less than 1000 myself, 740 for tech jobs? Insane

  18. @epapanak

    May 11, 2025 at 7:51 am

    It would seem to me that success in AI must include enabling the Greek family using AI and own the required renewable energy. The Greek state priority on these aspects have the Greek family in the last position

  19. @portcontainer9727

    May 11, 2025 at 8:25 am

    Don’t be fooled by the talk. That’s what it is: talk. He is the most criminal PM our country has ever had. He is the son of a PM, the brother to a minister, the uncle to Athens’ mayor, the uncle to the governmental head of the secret service (who was caught spying on the country’s elite and all the opposition parties) and the list goes on. Nepotism and corruption. His only innovation is establishing the mafia state by combinging political structures with the power of organized crime and the oligarchs. We pray for his political demise. Don’t be suckers.

  20. @KM_randomized

    May 11, 2025 at 9:15 am

    This guy gets it

    • @portcontainer9727

      May 12, 2025 at 4:52 am

      Never trust politicians – especially dirty ones

  21. @tonymontana-gs8sq

    May 11, 2025 at 9:16 am

    Zionist kyriakos together with his powerfull gang , squases the greek nation and supports the islamic turkey, against the international law .

  22. @Imperial_Dynamics

    May 11, 2025 at 1:24 pm

    Mitsotakis is the best prime-minister in a looong time

    • @panoulis4568

      May 12, 2025 at 7:35 am

      Are you sure?

  23. @jo77716

    May 11, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    Mitsotakis Is an oligarch and a puppet of the oligarchy. He’s selling Greece out from the back door. To hell with him and his family who has been running Greece together with two other families for the past 50 years. That pipeline that he’s pushing is going to destroy our beautiful Paradise. Our waters are going to look like Long Island New York after this soulless punk is done with us

  24. @smart769

    May 11, 2025 at 6:02 pm

    Mitsotakis is a mafia
    Don Couleone
    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  25. @utube_

    May 11, 2025 at 7:53 pm

    A gestapo jew.a steped shit.nothing more.

  26. @capcapjames

    May 11, 2025 at 11:02 pm

    Yes… The same way they brought democracy, prosperity and wellbeing in Iraq, Libya etc. ALWAYS TALK WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY IN CONTEST. Dont listen to this fraud.
    GREECE IS THE FIRST CONTRY IN IMMIGRATION AFTER UKRAINE IN 2024 !!!!! R-E-A-D- -I-T- -A-G-A-I-N- -A-N-D- -A-G-A-I-N-

  27. @MoisiGuri-y1r

    May 12, 2025 at 4:15 am

    Po po Micotaqi i kanë ngelur ca grekë këtej skanë psomi se e hanë shqiptarët në Greqi psomin të veçantë ku toka për grurë për bukë për shqiptarët e pleroinë qentë.

  28. @rv9785

    May 12, 2025 at 4:31 am

    PAKISTAN’S WAGES, JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SERVICES , AND SWITZERLAND’S COST OF LIVING
    RESULT: 30% OF GREEKS’ POPULATION BELOW THE POVERTY LINE (EUROSTAT)

  29. @voulathomacos-lagonas8445

    May 12, 2025 at 4:57 am

    BEWARE OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR …..the AMERICANS ARE …..GREEDY ARROGANT AND OFFENSIVE…..WILL THEY RESPECT THE LAWS, LAND AND CITIZENS OF GREECE????

  30. @georgegeorgakopoulos5956

    May 12, 2025 at 8:49 am

    Greece and Italy mafia countries,avoid at all cost

  31. @minasmarioskontid

    May 12, 2025 at 9:57 am

    If only the wishful talks were real substance…

  32. @FORGOTENMUSIC2024

    May 12, 2025 at 11:05 am

    mitsotaki gamiese

  33. @totomorenodosal

    May 12, 2025 at 4:23 pm

    best PM in EU nowadays.

    • @Kevinjimtheone

      May 12, 2025 at 8:31 pm

      lol, no he isn’t. And I’m Greek.

  34. @MOCInsight

    May 12, 2025 at 5:53 pm

    Greece is in big trouble no water soon.

    • @p.c.p.a11.11

      May 13, 2025 at 7:32 am

      Why?

  35. @enio1111

    May 12, 2025 at 6:54 pm

    with Microsoft and open an eye😂

  36. @sociocyberneering

    May 13, 2025 at 1:59 pm

    This guy possibly lives in and governs a different country.

  37. @stazchristo

    May 14, 2025 at 11:39 am

    MGGA, Make Greece Great Again?

  38. @panagiotisgousetis1192

    May 15, 2025 at 5:53 am

    Mitsotakis is the Camorra family in Greece.

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