“Let me begin with the self-evident. As prime minister I owe everyone, but above all to the relatives of the victims, a huge apology, both personally and in the name of all who governed the country over the years. Because, truly, it cannot be that in Greece in 2023, two trains were moving in opposite directions on the same track and no one was any the wiser,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis wrote in social media posts on Sunday, referring to the tragic rail accident at Tempe that left 57 dead.

