Tag: Greece
Greece, HFSF begins sale process of 9% of Alpha Bank
(Finance) – The Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF), the state-controlled Greek bank bailout fund, has initiated a process to sell its 9% stake in Alpha Bank. This follows the binding…
Victoria Hislop, Greece again and always
Exceptional meeting in Athens with Victoria Hislop. A graduate of Oxford University, the writer lives between England and Crete. Since 2020, she has been an honorary citizen of Greece. She…
Lagarde (ECB): Greece was able to overcome the debt challenge
(Finance) – “With a stronger economy”, Greece “has been able to overcome the debt challenge”, with the country’s public debt-to-GDP ratio having “fallen 35 percentage points from a peak of…
Sports Short: Pontjodikromo and Den Ouden continue their round in Greece
TENNIS Guy den Ouden from Maarssen has qualified for the second round of the ITF tournament in Heraklion, Greece. He won in the first round against the Greek Kountourakis 2-0…
A Finnish woman ran 246 kilometers in a day in the heat of Greece – now there are plans to double the distance
Satu Lipiäinen, an endurance runner from Lappeenranta, participated for the first time in Spartathlon, i.e. a running distance from Athens to Spárt. He finished third. In Lappeenranta A fairy tale…
Sports Short: No semi-final for Pontjodikromo and Den Ouden in Greece
VOLLEY-BALL The volleyball players of VV Utrecht were unable to give a positive follow-up to last week’s good start to the season. The Utrecht team visited Sneek, the team to…
A new wave of mobilization is expected in Russia, a Moscow advertising worker went on vacation to Greece and is not afraid
A Moscow advertising agency employee, a 38-year-old man, does not believe in a possible new large-scale business launch in Moscow. The independent Russian media Meduza wrote in September that a…
West Nile Virus alarm in Greece! Many people died, the number of cases is increasing
In the statement made by the Greek National Public Health Institution (EODY), it was stated that the virus caused the death of 20 people in different parts of the country.…
Scandal in Greece! The Mayor slapped the flood victim citizen…
Following the behavior that attracted great reactions on social media, Mayor Beos made a statement. According to the news in the Greek media, a verbal argument first took place between…
Greece, suffering from drought and floods, is trying to repair the damage caused by the weather – some crops may be irreversibly ruined
The storm damage in the fall will cost the Greek economy up to five billion euros. Wildfires raged on the Greek islands in midsummer, autumn storm Daniel brought another kind…