News archive of May 2020

Turkey on May 29 opened a second emergency hospital in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul as part of the country's continued fight against coronavirus.

The new Dr. Feriha Öz Emergency Hospital in Istanbul is named after a world-renowned Turkish pathologist who was claimed by the virus this April.

The European Commission is pressuring the government to sort out state nickel producer Larco, either through its privatization or its closure: Brussels has again referred Greece to the European Court of Justice, demanding a huge fine for the non-implementation of the same court's decision on illegal state subsidies to the mining company since 2017.

Italy and Spain will be the main beneficiaries from a 750 billion-euro ($826 billion), jointly financed fiscal stimulus package debated among European Union governments, according to estimates by the bloc's executive seen by Bloomberg.

Turkey on May 29 marked the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul on its 567th anniversary with a series of events.

Sultan Mehmet II conquered the city from where the Byzantines ruled the Eastern Roman Empire for more than 1,000 years.

The conquest transformed the city, once the heart of the Byzantine realm, into the capital of the new Ottoman Empire.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) expressed its appreciation for over the one hundred thousand servicemen, policemen, gendarmes and civilian personnel currently involved in UN peacekeeping missions, message sent on the occasion of the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, emphasizing the role of women in theaters of operations.

The closure of national borders has helped limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, but it's also dealt a devastating blow to tourism, travel and trade. That's especially true across the EU, where the bloc's Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson has called for a return to open borders as soon as possible.

Bank deposits rose by just under 3 billion euros during the nationwide coronavirus lockdown in March and April, data published on Friday by the Bank of Greece (BoG) have shown.

Last weekend I went for a swim with a 7-year-old child. The boy could not contain his enthusiasm. "This is the happiest day of the quarantine," he said again and again as he dove into the water off an inflatable mattress shaped like a slice of watermelon.

Cadastral data for the Municipality of Athens will start being posted online as of June 1 on the Hellenic Land Registry website.

Since the last report, 5.215 people have been tested.
There are eight people on the respirator, out of 558 hospitalized.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, 239.234 people have been tested in Serbia, of which 11.354 were positive for coronavirus.