Investors keen on prime Greek hotels
Investors are eyeing prime cuts in the Greek hotel market, as the country's tourism reaches record numbers, and celebrities flock to be instagramed in Greece.
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
Investors are eyeing prime cuts in the Greek hotel market, as the country's tourism reaches record numbers, and celebrities flock to be instagramed in Greece.
Mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris, using strong language, expressed his full support for the President of PASOK, Evangelos Venizelos, after the intense booing and heckling he received a couple of days ago during the celebration of the founding anniversary of the party.
The European Commissioner for Trade's Spokesman Wojtek Talko confirmed that small Cypriot companies, in addition to all of Europe's, will prosper from international trade agreements that the EU is working on, as he stated to CNA.
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades held an in-depth phone call, regarding Samaras' scheduled meeting with Turkish President Erdoğan, on the sidelines of the NATO Summit being held this Thursday and Friday.
Forty-two undocumented migrants were rescued in two incidents in the sea areas of Agathonissi and Kos islands on Tuesday.
Almost one in three houses in Greece were non-residential in 2011, a report by Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) said on Tuesday. The statistics service, in the report, said that the number of houses in Greece totaled 6,384,353 in 2011, of which 6,371,901 were conventional houses (99.8 pct) and 12,452 were non-conventional houses (0.2 pct).
Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis presented Greece's economic progress to troika representatives of Greece's lenders at a meeting in Paris on Tuesday evening.
Lady Gaga, who is going to give a concert in Athens on September 19th, gave out a video in which she says hello to her Greek fans and says she is excited to visit Athens.
Following the recovery that started last year, Greece advances 10 spots to reach 81st place, according to the Global Competitiveness Report 2014-2015 issued by the World Economic Forum.
Greece has qualified to the second round of the FIBA World Cup after winning all three games this week.
A 54-year-old man was arrested in Xanthi, after citizens complained that he was deceiving the public pretending to be a general pathologist. He had in fact converted his home's storeroom into a surgery ward.
According to reports in the press, George Clooney's fiancee, Amal Alamuddin has undertaken the issue of the return of the Parthenon marbles, one of her future spouse's pet projects.
In order for new physicians to obtain specialization they will be required to undergo rural service, immediately after graduation from medical school and not whenever they feel like it, in accordance with an amendment to be tabled next week in the House.
One euro currently equals 1.31 U.S. dollars, marking the lowest rate in almost a year.