Turkey detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Wednesday on charges such as graft and aiding a terrorist group, a step the main opposition party criticised as a “coup attempt against the next president.”
The government and the Bank of Greece (BoG) share a common understanding about the future of the Greek economy, according to National Economy and Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis and Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras, following their meeting on Tuesday.
The Greek Parliament’s investigative committee into the 2023 Tempe rail disaster began its work on Tuesday, focusing on the potential misconduct of the former deputy minister to the prime minister, Christos Triantopoulos.
Turkish authorities detained President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival on Wednesday on charges including corruption and aiding a terrorist group, in what the main opposition party called “a coup attempt against our next president.”
There are three dimensions to the recent government reshuffle. The first, is the prime minister’s effort for a restart following the Tempe tragedy, with an emphasis on engaging the ruling party’s new generation.
Turkey has restricted access to multiple social media platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok on Wednesday after the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and others, the Netblocks internet observatory said.
The nominal value of loans to the domestic private sector serviced by domestic credit servicing firms that have been transferred to non-resident specialized financial institutions increased by 3.97 billion euros, the Bank of Greece said on Tuesday: They reached a total value of €74.75 billion at the end of the fourth quarter of 2024.
Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (ADMIE) and the Transmission System Operator of Italy (Terna) are jointly submitting a request for the inclusion of the new electricity interconnection between Greece and Italy (GR.ITA II) in the second List of Projects of Mutual and Common Interest (PCI/PMI) of the European Union, in the context of the presentation…
Fitch Ratings has upgraded Bank of Cyprus to investment grade,
Moody’s upgraded the credit ratings of Alpha Bank and Piraeus Bank on Tuesday, following the upgrade of the Greek government’s credit rating to investment grade Baa3 from Ba1 last Friday.