Airport passenger traffic up 14.4% in first quarter
Passenger traffic at the country’s 39 airports increased by 14.4% in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the corresponding period in 2023.
Cost of restoring damage from storms Daniel and Elias exceeds €3 bln, Mitsotakis says
The cost of the damage caused by last year’s storms Daniel and Elias will exceed €3 billion, almost half of which is needed to repair road and rail infrastructure and to fix schools, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said.
Banks are investing in bonds
Greek banks made new purchases of bonds and investment assets amounting to 9.3 billion euros in 2023.
67 hooligans charged with 28 offences
A prosecutor has charged 67 Olympiakos club hooligans, arrested on Monday for their involvement in the fatal injury of the riot policeman Giorgos Lygeridis, with 28 charges, including 12 felonies.
Erdogan says he does not believe Hamas will leave Qatar
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said he does not believe the Palestinian militant group Hamas will leave Qatar, where it is based, adding he had seen no such signs that Doha wished the group to leave, either.
Double standards
New Democracy’s decision to nominate Fredi Beleri, the imprisoned mayor of Himare, as a candidate for the European Parliament aims to highlight Albania’s violation of the rule of law as a European concern. Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis made this clear on Wednesday, while also condemning attempts to monopolize these “progressive” issues. Indeed, the government’s stance…
Italian researcher claims to have located Plato’s burial place
An Italian researcher believes he has identified the location of Plato’s burial place in Athens by analyzing papyri from Herculaneum.
Suspended sentence for police officer for migrant smuggling
A police officer in Thessaloniki has been handed a suspended sentence of 7 years and 8 months for his involvement in the attempted smuggling of migrants through the city’s airport.
US incentives luring Greek industries
The generous incentives provided in the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is not lost on extroverted Greek businesses. Following the lead of other large European industrial companies, Cenergy Holdings and cement manufacturer Titan are giving their own “vote of confidence” to the US as an investment destination and the Biden administration’s $369 billion financial package…
The ‘spectacular turnaround’ in investments in Greece
With investments in Greece on the rise, Michael Arghyrou, the head of the Council of Economic Advisors for Greece’s Finance Ministry, joins Thanos Davelis to look at how these investments are transforming Greece’s economy, and to bust some of the myths around investments in Greece.