News archive of January 2019

City of Athens dishes up New Year's meal for 1,000

Hundreds of the city's poor and homeless attended the New Year's meal offered to around 1,000 persons by the City of Athens, at the indoor sports arena at Rouf, Tuesday. Dozens of municipal employees and volunteers helped serve the food, which was donated this year by the Interamerican insurance firm. [EPA]

PM voices support for innovations, IT sector

And the growth will be 4.4 percent in 2019, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic pointed out in an article written for Monday's edition of the daily Blic, the Serbian government said on its website.

doBank buys 85 pct of Altamira Asset Management

Italy's top bad-loan specialist doBank has agreed to buy 85 percent of Altamira Asset Management, valuing the entire company at 412 million euros in a bid to create a leading European credit manager.

German expert says 'many mistakes' were made with Greek crisis

Peter Bofinger, one of the five members of the German Council of Economic Experts, commented last week on state German radio station DLF about the handling of the Greek crisis that "many mistakes" have been made since 2008.

The European Central Bank, he said, "realized too late how serious the crisis was."

President asks Greeks to focus on three goals

President Prokopis Pavlopoulos received political leaders on Tuesday after calling on Greeks to display unity to achieve three "national goals."

Those goals are "securing the country's progress, defending the European project and bolstering our national interests and rights," Pavlopoulos said in his New Year's message.

Boy, 14, dies after falling four stories during fireworks display

A 14-year-old boy was killed in the early hours of Tuesday after he fell down the light shaft of a four-story building in the Thessaloniki district of Neapoli to watch the New Year's Day fireworks.

The exact circumstances of the boy's fall remained unclear. His body was recovered by members of the local fire service and the National First Aid Center (EKAB).

Construction group Ellaktor to absorb Anemos

Listed group Ellaktor - under the new management that took over last summer - is moving ahead with the first strategic step in the reorganization of its corporate structure.

The construction conglomerate has decided to fully absorb its Anemos subsidiary, which is active in the sector of renewable energy sources, mainly wind parks.

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