The Greek government is moving to get ahead of any France-style unrest before it reaches Athens, laying out a three-poin...

The Greek government is moving to get ahead of any France-style unrest before it reaches Athens, laying out a three-point argument for why Greece won't follow the same path. Officials are pointing to three things: Greece has the fiscal space to introduce support measures that austerity-hit economies like France simply don't have right now, education spending has gone up 21% since 2019, and the government openly acknowledges the cost-of-living pressure households are facing. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis put it plainly during remarks in Lavrio, saying Greece will never return to the era of large-scale social unrest. Wednesday's KKE-organised pan-education rally is the first real test of that claim. Tens of thousands of students are expected to march, and the government is watching closely. The sharpest political exchange came after Panos Lambrinidis, a former SYRIZA Youth secretary who now holds a position with the Hellenic Police, publicly said "Come on, let it be our turn too. Greece's turn. We're close." Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis fired back, saying that a large part of that political space has long invested in chaos and disorder and appears to still be doing so. The government's calculation is that rising education budgets and targeted economic support give it more room to absorb student anger than Paris had. Whether that argument holds once protesters hit the streets is a different question. #Greece #GreekPolitics #Mitsotakis