Greek prime minister Mitsotakis says Greece lacks answers on AI policy
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited San Francisco, meeting about 250 founders, investors and operators while touring Tesla and Sequoia Capital. He described the trip as a fact‑finding mission and a pitch for tech companies to set up in Greece, which is slated to regain MSCI developed‑market status next year. Mitsotakis highlighted Greece’s fiscal improvement, noting a 10‑year bond…
Key points
- Mitsotakis said Greece has no finished AI policy and is still figuring out regulation, admitting “we’re already fighting yesterday’s battle.”
- Greece received roughly €36 billion from the EU recovery fund, part of which funds a new HPE‑built supercomputer for AI research.
- Greek 10‑year bond yield is about 4.3%, down from over 40% in 2012, and the country will regain MSCI developed‑market status next year.
He said roughly €36 billion from the EU’s post‑COVID recovery fund is being spent on digital infrastructure, including an online portal for government services and a new supercomputer built with Hewlett Packard Enterprise that will go live in months to support AI and scientific research. The prime minister admitted Greece has no finished AI plan, citing a forthcoming ban on social media for children under 15 and a pilot with OpenAI in schools. He warned of rapid job displacement and called for “smart regulation,” noting Microsoft’s data‑center cluster near Athens and an AWS‑utility partnership for the country’s largest data centre in a former coal region.
‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI
TechCrunch AI · 23 September 2026
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