Week in Review
HALC’s Erini Kosmas and HALC Managing Director Georgia Logothetis break down the week’s developments on migration, the economy, Turkey, and more.
HALC’s Erini Kosmas and HALC Managing Director Georgia Logothetis break down the week’s developments on migration, the economy, Turkey, and more.
A reduction in the cost of borrowing by 1.7 percentage points has been achieved thanks to the upgrades to Greece’s credit rating by rating agencies during the last four years.
Offshore wind farms in Greece are set to advance with expanded business alliances, as the pilot projects off Alexandroupoli in northeastern Greece show.
The Development Ministry on Friday announced the extension until the end of this year of both the “Household Basket” measure and the ceiling on profit margins in food and fuel, both of which were due to expire.
A scheduled meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius on July 11-12 will be an opportunity to “chart a path of rapprochement,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said.
What has been extensively discussed since the election?
The absence of a clear policy cost SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras dearly in the last election. In the past, vagueness had been one of the party’s strengths.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called on the British government and the British Museum to reach a “win-win arrangement” over the Parthenon Marbles, facilitating both Greece and the UK to “share” the 2,500-year-old sculptures.
Only 4,706, compared to the initial demand of 36,544 applications submitted, under the “Spiti Mou” (My Home) program for mortgage interest subsidies, have secured the much-desired approval.
In order to break the impasse and activate the new operational maps for NATO exercises and missions, the US delegation in Brussels has proposed a compromise that would give the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits dual names, delete the reference to the Republic of Cyprus, and replace it with coordinates.