ATHEX: Bourse yields ground on war concerns
Fears of an escalation of the war in Eastern Europe led stocks lower on the continent on Wednesday, including the Athens bourse, with banks suffering most after a few days of growth.
Fears of an escalation of the war in Eastern Europe led stocks lower on the continent on Wednesday, including the Athens bourse, with banks suffering most after a few days of growth.
The government will pay out a further 1.1 billion euros in power bill subsidies in October to shield households and businesses from the impact of soaring energy prices ahead of winter, Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas said on Wednesday.
Citizen Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos and Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister for Public Order and Security and Minister of Interior Ivan Demerdzhiev paid a visit on Wednesday to the border fence near the village of Poros in Evros, in the border region with Turkey.
Greek customs officers located and seized a large shipment of cocaine, worth approximately 1,938,000 euros, in the port of Piraeus this week.
Representative Chris Pappas, a member of the Hellenic Caucus of the United States House of Representatives, issued a statement condemning the address by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias issued a stern response to the incendiary accusation against Greece by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
Swedish fintech company Klarna International, offering alternative forms of credit to consumers and companies, has decided to enter the Greek credit market and has already had a successful Greek group invest in it. Its chief executive officer explained to Kathimerini why Klarna chose to set up shop in Greece.
A grenade was found in a Thessaloniki worksite on Wednesday. The Hellenic Police was called in and immediately set on defusing the explosives.
The President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou received the leader of opposition party PASOK-KINAL Nikos Androulakis on Wednesday afternoon at the presidential mansion. It was his first meeting with the president since his election as the party’s leader.
A 15-year-old boy from Arcadia, southern Greece, was killed on Tuesday when his bicycle crashed into that of another teen who was cycling in front of him, local police said Wednesday.