Only one in four Greek small enterprises has an electronic store or is hosted on an online marketplace, even though that was the only way to make sales over long periods of time in the first couple of years of the pandemic.
Dr Lisel Hintz joins Thanos Davelis to look at Turkey’s recent foreign policy decisions – from blocking Sweden and Finland’s bids to join NATO, escalating its provocations against Greece, and threatening a new incursion into northern Syria – and break down how they also intersect with domestic politics inside Turkey.
Consumer confidence may be suffering due to price hikes across the market, but demand for store rentals in popular locations has been continuing its steady recovery in recent months.
Greece has welcomed an agreement between Croatia and Italy on the delimitation of exclusive economic zones (EEZ) in the Adriatic Sea, emphasizing that the deal earns its legitimacy from the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) of 1982.
Greece secured reduced interest rates for its 15- and 20-year bonds it reopened on Monday, eventually raising 400 million euros.
Police are investigating after they say a suspect stole an unoccupied mini bus in Thessaloniki in northern Greece and struck a vehicle before fleeing the scene.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to be taking one of the last rolls of the dice in what is a high-stakes game of craps. Turkey has already entered what is effectively a pre-election period and the president is looking for a way to blindside the opposition and trigger snap polls.
For the first time in almost two years, face masks against Covid-19 are no longer mandatory, barring certain exceptions, in Greece.
A Turkish court is expected to reach a verdict on Wednesday in a case against Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, an opposition figure who opinion polls suggest would be a strong possible challenger to President Tayyip Erdogan in upcoming national elections.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis showed a map of the “Blue Homeland,” which envisions Turkish influence over large swaths of the Mediterranean, to press home the point to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz regarding Ankara’s expansionist tendencies.