Undeterred by the decline seen during most of Tuesday’s session at Athinon Avenue, bank stocks managed to pull the benchmark out of the red and swing the market into positive territory, even if the majority of stocks (mostly mid- and small-caps) did end with losses.
‘The weekend sports matches had a different tone than usual. The cold-blooded murder of 19-year-old Alkis Kambanos by a gang of hooligans in Thessaloniki forced athletes and normal fans to be critical of the product they create together, and to write on their shirts and banners Alkis’ last plea: “Please stop hitting me.”
Sixteen people went on trial in Istanbul on Tuesday, charged with “political and military” espionage on behalf of Israel, Turkish media reports said.
President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has expressed her shock at the “desecration” of the World Cultural Monument of Panagia Soumela in Turkey in the wake of footage showing a DJ playing electronic music at the historic monastery in the mountainous Trabzon region.
The European Union’s lending arm, the European Investment Bank (EIB), provided a record financing of almost €5 billion last year to help Greece shift to clean energy and support its businesses hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, officials said on Tuesday.
A 25-year-old man wanted as a suspect for the murder by soccer hooligans of a 19-year-old youth in Thessaloniki turned himself in on Tuesday.
Greece continues to have “buffers” in place to protect it from rising borrowing costs and there is a reasonable chance that its credit rating could be upgraded soon, one of S&P Global’s top analysts told Reuters on Monday.
The police are looking for at least one more additional unidentified suspect in connection to the murder of 19-year-old Alkis Kampanos in Thessaloniki last week, according to sources available to Kathimerini on Tuesday.
The Energy Ministry is about to open up the market of bilateral energy supply contracts, based on terms that will bind producers of renewable energy sources (RES) to channel part of their new capacity to the local industry, assisting in the reduction of energy costs and strengthening its competitiveness.
Cannabis use in Attica is among the highest in Europe, with Athens ranking fifth or sixth in Europe, according to Nikos Thomaidis, professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Athens.