Kathimerini

Turkey: Greece getting 'bad advice' on international law

The Turkish Embassy has successively posted three tweets aiming at those who "give bad advice" to Greece.

 

It is not enough - and sometimes misleading - to refer to generalities in international law, especially if one embarks upon professing on matters involving others.

— Turkish Emb. Athens (@TC_Atina) June 8, 2020

 

United Group is ready to buy Forthnet loans, but sets terms

The signing of the sale contracts for 350 million euros of Forthnet's loans from the creditor banks to United Group appears to be just a matter of days, banking sources tell Kathimerini.
This is also confirmed by sources at British equity fund BC Partners, which is United's parent group.

Greece battling Spain, Portugal for German tourists

Greece is going to battle it out with Spain and Portugal to attract the biggest possible share of tourists from major markets this summer, especially Germany, as the big German tour operators have started aggressively promoting packages to Greece and the Balearics - the islands that have done better at combating Covid-19 than continental Spain.

MIT professor upbeat on virus outlook

As Greece enters the fourth phase of easing restrictions that were imposed in March to stem the spread of the new coronavirus, an eminent Greek professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dimitris Bertsimas, has developed an epidemiological model that suggests Greece is unlikely to see a significant increase in Covid-19 cases over the summer. 

The apology and the thank you

Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis apologized for the crowds that gathered for the unveiling of the new fountain at Omonia Square last week. He admitted that, despite the best of intentions, the event in the middle of the coronavirus crisis, at a time when the state is trying to drive home the continued need to maintain social distancing (including with fines), was a mistake.

Remembering the Spanish flu, a century later

It was a Sunday night a few weeks back and Marianna Theodoropoulou kept looking at her watch. She was determined to be on her balcony at 9 p.m. sharp to applaud the country's hospital doctors and nurses battling the coronavirus crisis. "I had a personal reason, apart from the gratitude I wanted to express," she tells Kathimerini.

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