News archive of April 2023

Four issues mostly concern investors with regard to Greek banks, says Goldman Sachs in a report, while reiterating its positive attitude toward the sector's prospects in view of the first-quarter results.

It says it has received several questions from investors regarding liquidity position, exposure to commercial real estate, capital adequacy and asset quality.

Warplanes on bombing raids drew heavy anti-aircraft fire over Khartoum on Saturday as fierce fighting between Sudan's army and paramilitaries entered a third week, despite a renewed truce.

"Bulgaria will arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin if for some reason he ends up in our country", announced Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev in an interview with the Faktor.bg.

President Rumen Radev said that from a country through which only Russian gas passed, Bulgaria has become the center of energy policy in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Radev is in Delphi, where he is participating in the eighth Delphi Economic Forum together with cabinet ministers.

The new cases of COVID-19 in Bulgaria in the last 24 hours are 178, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal.

During the day, 2,345 tests were performed, of which 7.6 percent were positive. There are 2,900 active cases, and 78 people have been reported as cured.

The Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis, announced that an agreement had been reached with Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia on the import of certain Ukrainian foods, which the five member countries had vetoed.

The electronic supermarket basket is getting smaller and smaller, as price increases lead consumers to order fewer products, the same as what happens when they visit a physical store.

At the same time, the share of private label products is growing, which are also increasingly chosen by consumers when ordering from online supermarkets.

The City of Athens has been granted a 25-year lease on a historic building on the corner of downtown Stadiou and Santaroza streets that once housed Greece's first National Printing Office, it was announced on Thursday.

The government has taken significant steps to reduce the national debt, to attract investments and create new jobs, and to support households and the country needs to stay on that path, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the Delphi Economic Forum on Friday.

The US confiscated Iranian oil on a tanker at sea in recent days in a sanctions enforcement operation, three sources said, and days later Iran seized another oil-laden tanker in retaliation, according to a maritime security firm.

The vessel is managed by Greece-based Empire Navigation.