Mitsotakis basks in Trump's praise as Greek exporters fear US tariff 'butterfly effect'

While prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis may be basking in Donald Trump's reported comment, "I know him. He's a good man," Greek exporters to the US are increasingly worried at the "butterfly effect" of tariffs on olives, olive oil and feta cheese. One family-run company, based in the Peloponnese, exports 95 per cent of its olive oil to the US, while another, in central Greece, sends 50 per cent of its table olives to that country. As for feta, 1,200 farmers depend on the co-operative dairy in Kalavryta, a mountain village in eastern Greece, just one of the many producers throughout…