Small Bookshop Week kicked off in Greece on Monday, with the country’s independent booksellers hosting a series of interesting events to acquaint readers with their important work and to share the joy of reading with the uninitiated.
A large number of veteran politicians, former ministers and celebrities from the arts, sports and journalistic fields failed at the final hurdle on Sunday as voters turned their backs on them.
Some 8.6% of the profitability of Greek banking groups came in 2022 from abroad, where profits before taxes amounted to 380 million euros out of a total of €4.5 billion, which was the profitability of the entire banking system in Greece last year.
Opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday turned down the exploratory mandate to form a coalition government, admitting that his party’s resounding defeat in Sunday’s polls came as a “painful shock.”
The Turkish military has carried out a second test of the country’s home-built Typhoon missile, Greek state broadcaster ERT reported on Tuesday, citing Turkish media.
The third-placed contender in the Turkish presidential elections formally endorsed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday for the second-round runoff vote to be held on May 28.
Greece’s leftists will receive an official mandate on Tuesday to form a coalition government after an inconclusive national election, but are expected to seek a second vote instead.
Nick Malkoutzis, the co-founder and editor of Macropolis.gr, a political and economic analysis site that focuses on Greece, joins Thanos Davelis with the latest breakdown from Greece’s election, looking at Prime Minister Mitsotakis’ historic win, the questions the result has raised about SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras’ political future, and more.
The Sports Ministry has announced a ban on the the organized movement of AEK Athens and PAOK soccer fans in Volos, central Greece, in view of the Greek Cup final on Wednesday, citing “serious reasons of public order and security.”
Pollsters claim they did detect the trends that led to New Democracy’s triumph over Syriza in Sunday’s elections, but avoided publishing the results because of the “severe criticism” they were subjected to by main opposition Syriza.