Greece is a European success story

KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS, 55 but looking much younger, fizzes with energy and satisfaction as he reviews in the Greek prime minister’s office with a rapid-fire list of . It is hard to imagine, as he reels off the sunny statistics, that he might be about to lose his majority and even his job; yet that is what the opinion polls predict.A polished technocratic type, Mr Mitsotakis is one of Brussels’s darlings. After the pandemonium of his predecessor’s administration, when under the radical left Syriza party Greece came close to ejection from the euro, the past four years have been a huge relief. Mr Mitsotakis has steadily calmed tension with his neighbour Turkey: rushing aid to the victims of February’s earthquake there was shrewd as well as humanitarian.