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]
Erdoğan urges his ruling party to work hard to win Ankara in local polls
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Jan.
Turkey's net external debt stock stands at $286 billion
The Treasury and Finance Ministry of Turkey has announced that the country's net external debt stock totaled $286.2 billion as of the end of September this year.
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.