From Crisis to Eurogroup Chief: The Rise of Kyriakos Pierrakakis

Greece’s economy minister and newly elected president of the Eurogroup, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, is being profiled in France’s Le Point as the reform‑minded technocrat who wants to “wake up” Europe and push for a more integrated, competitive eurozone. In a feature titled “Kyriakos Pierrakakis, the Greek who wants to wake up Europe,” journalists Emmanuel Berretta and Alexia Kefala trace Mr. Pierrakakis’s path from overseeing digital and economic reforms in Athens to becoming the first Greek to ...

By ANTHEE CARASSAVA