ECB: Crucial meeting in Athens
The European Central Bank (ECB) is preparing to put a "freeze" on interest rate increases.
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
The European Central Bank (ECB) is preparing to put a "freeze" on interest rate increases.
Canadian-Indian billionaire investor Prem Watsa, the founder and head of Fairfax Financial Holdings, attended Monday evening’s inauguration of an upscale resort in southeast coastal Athens, where he took the opportunity to extend kudos over the country’s robust economic turnaround and to the center-right Mitsotakis government.
Members of the Greek-American community gathered at the Kefalonian house in Astoria, New York on Saturday for the visit of Stefanos Kasselakis, president of SYRIZA.
The embassy of Greece in Lebanon issued a statement through which it recommends Greek visitors to leave the country.
The meeting of the Board of Directors of the European Central Bank (ECB) will be held at the Bank of Greece on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 October, hosted by the Governor of the Bank of Greece, Giannis Stournaras.
Alpha Bank and UniCredit entered into a multi-layered surprise deal, marking the first major investment by a foreign bank in Greece in many years. The agreement is based on two parts, the merger of their subsidiaries in Romania and the achievement of strategic cooperation in Greece, focusing on the acquisition of the 9% held by the HFSF in Alpha Bank from the Italian bank.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrived in Israel, where in a short time he will have a meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
MEP Stelios Kouloglou announced his departure from the SYRIZA Eurogroup.
An Athens first instance court on Thursday paved the way for the restructuring and reopening of the insolvent Elefsis Shipyards, west of Piraeus in western Attica prefecture, under a plan submitted by the ONEX group last November.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, referring to the recovery of the Investment Grade by the rating agency "Standard & Poor's" with his comment on Facebook, emphasized that it is another official stamp of recovery of the Greek economy.
During his visit to the Terroir in Tribeca on Friday, Stefanos Kasselakis spoke with members of SYRIZA in the US and with various members of the omogeneia who had gathered to meet him.
During his visit to Saint Demetrios of Astoria in NY, Stefanos Kasselakis, the newly-elected President of SYRIZA, told New Greek TV he got married to his partner Tyler in Brooklyn Town Hall on Thursday. Kasselakis said they had a celebratory lunch at Dumbo after the ceremony.
Tourism revenues "galloped" in the first 8 months of the year, according to the official figures of the Bank of Greece. As it turns out, the overall picture is better than 2019's record year.
In an interview, Pavlos Marinakis talked about the asylum procedures for immigrants. The government representative reiterated that the country is on full alert.