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Does Greece’s Mitsotakis Have COVID-19 In His Periscope?

2020-10-31 by Phil Butler

Kyriakos Mitsotakis sub

Prime Minister Mitsotakis is to announce today new coronavirus measures. What will those measures be? This is the question for every Greek.

Tags: Alexis Tsipras, COVID lockdowns, COVID projections, Greece lockdown, Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis, IHME, localized lockdown, lockdowns, Mitsotakis, pandemic effects, Tsipras

Thomas Cook and LMEY Investments Eyeball “Healthy” Deals in Greece

2018-11-08 by Phil Butler

News that Thomas Cook Hotel Investments and Swiss hotel development group LMEY Investments, raised €40 million to invest in hotels around the Mediterranean with Greece’s Piraeus Bank bears watching today.

Tags: buyouts, crete, Greece banks, Greece deregulation, Greek austerity, Greek investment, Greek privvatization, investment news, LMEY Investments, Thomas Cook Hotel Investments, toxic assets, Trump, Tsipras, TUI, Wilbur Ross

Yacht Tourism Execs Quiz PM Tsipras: “Has the Sun Set on Our Industry?”

2018-10-13 by Phil Butler

Yacht Club of Greece

Greece’s yacht tourism sector has asked Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to annul a recent ministerial decision which does away with tax-deductible on the boat purchases. The yacht tourism experts warn the bad decisions by ministers will wreck the future of sea tourism in Greece. This story elevates the question of whether or not the country’s leaders want to rejuvenate […]

Tags: Aegean boats, Alberto Cappato, Alexis Tsipras, boating, Greek yachting, Greek Yachting Association, Hellenic Professional Yacht Owners Association, ICOMIA, Luxury Yachts, shipbuilding, SITESAP, Tsipras, yachting, yachtsmen

German Fund Snaps Up Greece’s Thessaloniki Port

2017-12-30 by Phil Butler

Port of Thessaloniki from the White Tower - George M. Groutas

News of the privatization of the Thessaloniki Port arrived late last week via Greece’s liquidation fund. According to the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund the sale of its 67% stake in Thessaloniki Port to Deutche Invest Equity Partners, Belterra Investments and CMA CGM’s ports division, Terminal Link has now taken place.

Tags: German banks, Greece economy, Greece government, Greek privatization, Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund, Ivan Savvidis, privatization, Pyatt, Thessaloniki Port, Tsipras, US interests




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