Angelopoulos

Greek businesswoman Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki's plans to have former U.S. President Bill Clinton attend her conference at the Athens Hilton on June 23 and 24 were foiled after the US government expressed a critical stance on the prospect of Savvas Xiros' prison release.

A Clinton Global Initiative Mediterranean meeting scheduled to be held in Athens in June has been cancelled, it emerged on Thursday. The cancellation came after Hillary Rodham Clinton recently announced she was running for the Democratic nomination for the US presidency in 2016. As a result of her candidacy all of the organization's upcoming meetings will be held in the US.

Testimony in the high-profile trial of ex-FinMin George Papaconstantinou continued on Thursday with a former IT specialist at the finance ministry testifying on his cooperation with the one-time socialist politician.

Gross domestic product would have been 2.5 percent lower and employment would have been reduced by 44,000 jobs had the 2004 Olympic Games not been staged in Athens, according to the conclusions of a report by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) on the event?s impact on the Greek economy.

The leftist SYRIZA opposition has denied reports that leader Alexis Tsipras recently met with Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, former head of the Athens 2004 Olympics organizing committee, and Marianna Latsis of Lamda development.

The report, which was posted on the iefimerida.gr website, was also rebuffed by sources close to Angelopoulos-Daskalaki.