Eurobank's Head of Shipping, Christina Margelou, has been included in Lloyd's 2022 list of the 10 most influential people worldwide in the shipping finance industry, as a result of the Bank's high performance in the financing of companies in the shipping sector.
The initiative belongs to the head of the European People's Party (EPP) Manfred Weber and the general secretary of the EPP, Thanasis Bakolas, one of the close associates of PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The timing for the closed meeting of around twenty leaders and party leaders – a "two-day brainstorming" session, as they call it among themselves – is not at all coincidental.
The President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou referred to the excellent Greek-US relations during her meeting with the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, on Thursday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday pointed out the significance of Greek-Israeli relations, which have now acquired the character of a strategic cooperation, in his meeting with the new executive director of the organisation "American Jewish Committee" Ted Deutch, at the Maximos mansion.
Handelsblatt's online edition hosts an interview with the head of the Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras, about the economic developments in the eurozone. As the newspaper's correspondent in Athens points out, the central banker "unlike many of his colleagues on the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, sees a rapid de-escalation of inflation".
For one more year, Greece maintains the scepter in global shipping with China following and Japan in third place, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) points out in its annual report on maritime transport.
Many questions are being raised about the finances of the Ark of the World as well as the accounts of those responsible for the charity, as new evidence is coming to light that shows that there were huge sums available.
Seismic surveys to locate natural gas deposits in the Ionian Sea continue unabated.
A 4.7 Richter earthquake occurred shortly after 6:30 on Tuesday morning off Evia, with the tremor also being felt in Attica. A barrage of aftershocks followed, in Evia after the initial tremor. By 7:30 in the morning, three aftershocks of magnitude 4.1, 3.2 and 2.2 were even felt in the Attica basin.
King Charles III on Monday afternoon welcomed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his spouse Mareva at Windsor Castle in London, designated as a private meeting, given that the British monarch received a head of government rather than a peer, i.e. a head of state.
Expansion of flights to Greece was agreed upon by the Minister of Tourism Vassilis Kikilias with the Ministry of Tourism of Saudi Arabia, Prince Ahmed Al Khateeb, in the context of the series of contacts and meetings with leaders of the global tourism market that he is carrying out during his visit to Riyadh, where the 22nd Summit of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC).
The first arrest in a wide-ranging police and judicial investigation of one of Greece’s most prominent private child & mother services NGO, Ark of the World, came on Friday in the southern city of Kalamata, when the director of a shelter there was charged – and subsequently released – with possession of a handgun.
An event for the Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan in Greece is taking place today. The event is co-organized by the European Commission, the Special Recovery Fund Coordination Service of the Ministry of Finance and Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research-IOBE and will be broadcast on IOBE's YouTube channel.
The event will feature a first assessment of the progress made to date in the implementation of the Hellenic Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) following its approval in July 2021.
Greece's RRP ("Greece 2.0") is funded through NextGenerationEU, the EU's recovery mechanism to repair the economic and social damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Vice President of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas, the Deputy Minister of Finance Theodoros Skylakakis, the Head of the Monitoring Directorate of the Recovery Fund Demosthenes Voivodas, the Head of Unit DG for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission Julia Lendvai, the Secretary General for Coordination of of the Government of Thanasis Kontogeorgis, the Head of Unit DG of Employment and Social Inclusion, European Patrick Paquet, the Governor of the Recovery Fund Nikos Mantzoufas et al.
The event is freely broadcast from the IOBE YouTube channel in Greek and English.
Greece is a lot stronger today than it was four years ago, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Saturday during a walkabout in Kallithea, the SW suburb of Athens.