The Cypriot minister of finance, Makis Keravnos, expressed his satisfaction with the conclusion of negotiations on a double taxation avoidance agreement with the Netherlands in a meeting Thursday with the Dutch ambassador in Nicosia, Elke Merks-Schaapveld.
The US International Development Finance Corporation’s (DFC) participation in Elefsis Shipyards is currently at $125 million, Development and Investment Minister Adonis Georgiadis said this week.
Andrey Doronichev was alarmed last year when he saw a video on social media that appeared to show the president of Ukraine surrendering to Russia.
Greece is not Turkey. It is therefore a huge mistake for a party to adopt – even tacitly – outlandish conspiracy theories indicating that Sunday’s election may be tampered with.
Greece will hold a parliamentary election on May 21 that looks unlikely to produce an outright winner and could lead to a coalition government or a second ballot in early July.
Two opinion polls published just hours before an election silence kicks in put New Democracy ahead of main opposition SYRIZA by 6.5 and 5 percentage points, respectively. A Pulse poll for SKAI gave New Democracy a 6.5-point lead over SYRIZA while an MRB poll for OPEN TV put conservatives 5 points ahead.
The Turkish presidential election result was a blow to Turkey, to Greece, to the broader region and to democracy as a whole. While the rule in democracy is that we respect the will of the people, democracy’s enduring weakness is that it contributes to its own undoing. So, despite the 21 years he’s already spent…
Michalis Georgiou and Dimitris Stefanidis, the creative duo behind the Athens-based G Design Studio, have won the prestigious Boutique Design Studio of the Year accolade at the ADC Annual Awards in New York City, which this year celebrated 102 years of excellence in design and craft.
The Greek stock market ended the last week before the general election with gains, which made it the third consecutive week of growth for the benchmark at Athinon Avenue.
“It is again confirmed that we do not know ourselves and that we take our fantasies for real,” a Turkish friend wrote to me on Monday.