Dozens of Greek infrastructure projects planned
Greece’s Development Plan 2030 includes 188 projects worth 27.6 billion euros, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras said at the FinForum 2023 conference in Athens on Tuesday.
Nicosia eases pressure on bad debtors
Τhe Cypriot cabinet on Wednesday approved the “Rent vs Installment Scheme,” government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis announced.
Brussels tables freight transport measures
The European Commission on Tuesday proposed measures to make freight transport greener and more efficient.
Seven hooligans jailed for life
A mixed jury court in Thessaloniki has sentenced seven men to life prison plus additional sentences ranging from 18-22 years for the murder of 19-year-old Alkis Kambanos in a sports club-related attack in February 2021.
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the diaspora ‘innocent fraud’
John Kenneth Galbraith in his book “The Economics of Innocent Fraud” portrayed his lifetime of experience in the public and private sectors with a scathing critique of matters as they stand today.
Using blackmail
Turkey blackmailed NATO at a very difficult time for the Alliance. It remains to be seen what exactly it has achieved.
ATHEX: Index rises to level unseen since April 2014
Athens’ stock market went up, then down and then back up on Wednesday, the end result being the benchmark’s closing at a high unseen since early April 2014.
Transition period for electricity tariffs
The Ministry of Environment and Energy is aiming for the abolition of emergency measures in the retail electricity market in September.
Reforms: If not now, when?
The pre-election period was long, and exhausting. It essentially started in January and ended six months later. The fatigue of government officials and party cadres is reasonable and a given.
Life proposed for defendants in murder of Kambanos
The prosecutor of the Mixed Jury Court of Thessaloniki proposed life sentences for seven of the 12 convicted for the murder of 19-year-old Alkis Kambanos in a sports club-related attack in February 2021.