Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos affirmed the position of the Mitsotakis Government that, while it opposes the Prespa treaty, it considers the Greek obligations stemming from it as valid.
Panagiotopoulos said that the only way out of the treaty is if one side openly begins to violate it, and made it clear that Greece will not make the first move.

New Democracy and the Prime Minister himself said that we will do all we can to improve the treaty, which we found to be damaging to our national interests from the start. We can improve it in various points, to benefit our country. It is also beneficial to prepare legal arguments in case one said – meaning Skopje – begins to fundamentally violate its articles. Then we can denounce the treaty, Panagiotopoulos said.

The New Democracy party owes its significant victory over the leftist SYRIZA party in no small part to the rejection of the Prespa treaty. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mistotakis said that Greece will reserve the right to block Macedonia from opening EU accession talks, which would be a clear violation of the treaty, but so far it has no need to do so, as other countries such as France and the Netherlands seem willing to do that instead of Greece.

Daily Kathimerini, a paper seen as close to New Democracy, announced that the Government won’t block Macedonia from opening EU accession talks, but will have its own requirements to get to a “yes”. One of these demands, the paper says, may be to get Germany to relent on the strict conditions it place on the Greek budget.