Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was honored with the gold medal of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation on Tuesday evening, as part of the annual conference of the Economic Council of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU). The prime minister accepted the award on behalf of the Greek people "with deep gratitude." Chancellor Friedrich Merz expressed his "great respect" for him and spoke of it as proof of "what a people can achieve thanks to political leadership." In his celebratory speech, the President of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation and former Prime Minister of Hesse Roland Koch spoke of the "great achievement of a statesman and politician" and thanked Mitsotakis for his work "in Greece, for Europe and his example: for Germany. Referring to the country's achievements in recent years, Koch described the prime minister as a "leader of development" and focused in particular on the "admirable level of digital governance" that has been achieved...