Stake

People may have all sorts of excuses for not voting today. It's hot, the main parties have not given us the best choice of candidates so that we could go and vote happily and they have not inspired us with the certainty that at the next crucial session of the European Parliament we will be represented by people who understand what is at stake and can hold their own in Strasbourg.

An unusually low-key election campaign may yet end in high-stakes drama under a new electoral system that looks certain to produce a second-round.

This election is unusual in many ways. It is the first time it happen with the summer well underway. That it happens now is a consequence of a very recent popular verdict.

Nasdaq no longer has a stake in Borsa Istanbul, according to partnership structure data on the Turkish stock exchange's website on Sept. 26, having previously held a 7 percent stake.

Preparations for the privatization of Hellenic Petroleum (ELPE) are at an advanced stage, with the two main stakeholders - the Greek state and Paneuropean - having agreed on the stakes they will concede to the strategic investor and exchanged proposals for the shareholder agreement.

Greece has received three improved binding financial bids for a majority stake in Thessaloniki Port Authority (OLTH), its second-largest, the country's privatization agency (TAIPED) said on Friday.

Last month TAIPED got three bids for a 67 percent stake in Thessaloniki Port.

DESFA's privatization is in the final stretch, as sources familiar with the process say that the agreement for the transfer of a 66 percent stake in Greece's natural gas grid operator to Azeri firm Socar will be sealed before the October 31 deadline.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta cast his vote in the elections to the European Parliament at Elementary School No 17 of Bucharest, on Sunday, accompanied by wife Daciana Sarbu and daughter Irina.

The Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB) is the third largest stake holder in Bulgaria's largest tobacco company, Bulgartabac Holding.

According to the report of the Capital Daily business daily, it has purchased 3.22% of Bulgartabac's stakes and the total ownership of the bank became 6.02%.