Shift in commercial property
Real estate investment companies (REICs) and property investment funds are expected to make a shift this year to new income property categories.
Erdogan to visit Ukraine Feb 3 in bid to ease tension, official says
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Ukraine on Thursday for talks with President Volodymry Zelenskiy that are meant to ease tensions between Kyiv and Russia, a senior Turkish official said on Monday.
Pandemic to ‘spell end of tax privileges for billionaires’
Thomas Piketty is one of the most famous economists in the world. His weighty tomes on inequality and its dangerous consequences for global capitalism have been widely praised by other stars of the dismal science.
SYRIZA’s censure motion an ‘act of despair,’ gov’t spokesman says
Government spokesman Ioannis Oikonomou on Monday dismissed SYRIZA opposition’s failed censure motion against the conservative government as an “act of despair” prompted by the left-wing party’s performance in opinion polls.
JPMorgan Chase CEO: I am optimistic for Greece
Jamie Dimon is board chairman and chief executive officer of the world’s largest systemic bank, JPMorgan Chase, he often meets with heads of state and his opinion is of great importance to global markets.
Budget data off target in January
The state budget has apparently missed its targets this month, bringing a sudden end to the positive course last year had set and reintroducing concerns over how the planned containment of the primary deficit to 1.4% of gross domestic product in 2022 will be attained.
Health workers to lose job unless they get Covid shot by March 31, says minister
Unvaccinated health workers must get the jab against Covid-19 by March 31 or they will be fired from Greece’s national health system (ESY), Health Minister Thanos Plevris said on Monday.
FM pays tribute to Imia standoff fatalities
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on Monday paid tribute to the three Greek Navy officers that were killed during the 1996 Imia crisis that brought Greece and Turkey to the brink of war.
Attica bus fire leads to passenger evacuation
Passengers had to be evacuated from a bus in Pallini, east of the capital, after a suspected engine fault caused it to catch fire on Monday.
Greek Cypriots fear Trojan horse in ghost town
Greek Cypriot officials in the south are calling once again on Varosha title deed holders to stay away from a “legal trap” in the north, pointing to Ottoman religious foundations officially acknowledged as interested parties by a commission that examines property claims in the divided island’s ghost town.