Trust law

“This is real, trust us”

The Chinese appear to trust their government the most

“I have trust in the Greek justice, which recently decided that there is no involvement of the businessman”

When the coronavirus emergency is over, the extent to which life will have changed will depend on the length of the disruption, the number of lives it took and the way each country and transnational organization dealt with the crisis.

The day after will depend on the level of trust that exists between citizen and state, between countries.

Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein wrote a will two days before he died, putting his $578 million in assets into a trust with unnamed beneficiaries, the New York Post reported on Aug. 19.

The government is ceding control of the sale of Public Power Corporation's (PPC) lignite-powered plants, according to pledges made by Athens to the European Commission, Kathimerini has learned.

The entire process will be conducted by a so-called "monitoring trustee," who will have the role of on-the-spot inspector from the Commission's Directorate General for Competition (DGComp).

Although we're not in pre-election period, the government has launched a campaign of handouts and politically motivated appointments. Greece has just won back the confidence of international markets, but this trust remains extremely fragile.

The economy is in dire need of stability and trust, and yet many players who ought to pursue these goals seem indifferent to them. From the beginning it was clear that Greece's crisis was not about debt alone, it was also political and cultural.

A survey conducted by polling agency IRES (the Romanian Institute for Assessment and Strategy) between March 9 - 10 found that 63 percent of the Romanians have high and very high confidence in the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), while the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) enjoys the trust of 55 percent of the citizens.

“The agreement with Greece is an important first step”, stated Italian FinMin Pier Carlo Padoan during his speech in an American university in Bologna.