In a glowing editorial, the Italian daily Il Foglio praised Greece’s economic trajectory and the new €500 million support package announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday, 22 April 2026. The newspaper noted that strong fiscal data enabled Mitsotakis to unveil the stimulus measures ‘without compromising fiscal balance’ — underscoring Greece’s regained macroeconomic stability.
Lessons from Athens
Under the headline ‘Lessons from Athens’, the Rome-based publication highlighted how Greece has gradually returned to normalcy by pursuing policies rooted in fiscal discipline — aiming both to restore credibility with international markets and to secure sustainable economic growth.
According to the report, Greece is among just five European Union countries currently running a budget surplus. Moreover, over the past four years, its fiscal outcomes have consistently outperformed official forecasts.
The article also recalled Mitsotakis’s own assessment: that this success stems directly from ‘a careful and disciplined fiscal policy’.