ATHEX: Stock market index keeps looking up
The US Fed and European Central Bank rate hikes went largely according to expectations, so eurozone stock markets, including Greece’s, proceeded smoothly on Thursday with sessions of mild gains.
Alpha bond is more than five times oversubscribed
Alpha Bank raised 400 million euros on Wednesday through the issue of an Additional Tier 1 bond with a coupon of 11.875%, a rate lower than initial market estimates.
MEPs lift immunity of 2 lawmakers linked to scandal
The European Union parliament on Thursday removed the protective immunity of two lawmakers linked to one of the bloc’s biggest-ever corruption scandals, paving the way for them to be questioned by Belgian investigators.
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Tax inspectors shut down gas station that operated illegally for 12 years
Tax inspectors have shut down an illegal gas station in Western Attica that sold €18 million worth of fuel since opening in 2010.
Covid fatalities and hospital admissions down
Health authorities on Thursday announced that 169 patients with Covid-19 died from January 23 to January 29, a 4% decrease on the average over the preceding four weeks.
Greece’s defense doctrine 27 years after the Imia crisis
27 years ago the Imia crisis brought Greece and Turkey to the brink of war. Almost three decades later, a lot has changed in terms of Greece’s defense doctrine.
Artists’ strike closes theaters, music schools
Performing artists and art students ‒ some banging drums, playing trumpets and dressed in clown outfits ‒ gathered outside Parliament Thursday during a strike that closed theaters, halted TV shoots and disrupted art school classes.
Bulgaria’s president calls nation’s 5th election in 2 years
Bulgaria’s president dissolved the National Assembly on Thursday and called early parliamentary elections for April 2 in hopes of resolving the country’s a bid to settle the country’s prolonged political impasse and biting economic woes.
Mitsotakis: SYRIZA has returned to ‘populism and lies’
The main opposition party has returned to “the streets, populism and unbridled lies,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told members of his cabinet, following SYRIZA’s recent decision to abstain from any parliamentary votes until a national election is held. “