Thursday’s announcement of the MSCI index restructuring and rumors from abroad about certain funds shifting from the Istanbul bourse to the Athens Stock Exchange came on top of anticipation of new mergers and acquisitions in the local market on Wednesday, further boosting the Greek benchmark.
“We learn to pick our fights in multilateral diplomacy, and [the return of the Parthenon Sculptures] was worth fighting for,” sums up one of Greece’s unexpected allies. Egyptian diplomat Maged Mosleh is speaking for the first time about the battle fought – and won – by Greece at the UNESCO Intergovernmental
Reactions to the government’s decision to switch to remote learning, an understandably emergency measure, for the duration of the snowstorm that hit Greece are indicative of a more profound trend.
Famines, earthquakes and all other calamities can save or destroy political careers.
The progress in implementing Greece’s arms programs was the main focus of the National Council on National Security (KYSEA), which met at the Maximos Mansion on Wednesday, chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Nearly half of the country’s municipalities (44%) are calling for a reduction in the property rates used for tax purposes (known as “objective values”) or even a return to 2018 levels.
The court announced its verdict in the trial of well-known actor Petros Filippidis on Wednesday. Specifically, he was found unanimously innocent on the charge of serial rape but was found unanimously guilty of two charges of attempted rape.
Greek EMAK emergency rescue team members on Wednesday focused on trying to pull out another child found in the ruins of a building in Hatay, the southeastern town in Turkey, following a devastating earthquake on Monday that has claimed over 11,000 dead in the country and nearby Syria.
Greece has rescued seven more migrants who were missing following Tuesday’s shipwreck off the island of Lesvos in which three people drowned, bringing the number of survivors to 39, the coast guard said on Wednesday.
Hundreds of archives, thousands of printed publications, unique works of art, an important collection of newspapers, magazines, posters and leaflets will be presented to the public on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI).