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The year 2023 was a record year for the Athens International Airport (AIA) in terms of passengers, though it also made a strong recovery in all economic indicators, its administration said on Wednesday.

The presentation of results was the first after the company's successful entry into the Athens Stock Exchange about a month ago.

Greek stocks declined slightly in August's last session at the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE), as investors locked in profits, although on a limited scale. What stood out though was the sudden surge in turnover, to €453.75 million.

The Athens Stock Exchange and the Federation of Industries of Greece (SBE) are organizing a workshop in Thessaloniki titled "Corporate Governance and Sustainable Development: Modern Trends and Optimum Practices," which will start at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday (16-18 Katouni).
The keynote speaker will be Stilpon Nestor, chief executive officer of London-based Nestor Advisors.

It's official - the Athens Stock Exchange was the best performing equity market in Europe last year, reflecting international investors' newfound confidence in Greece's recovery. Across the board, foreign investors are putting their money in Greek assets from stocks and bonds to real estate and helping to drive foreign direct investment in Greece to record highs.

The Greek National Intelligence service was among several top Greek state and government websites that went down on 17 January due to a wholesale cyber attack for which an ultra-nationalist Turkish hackers group with apparently strong neo-Ottoman sympathies named Anka Neferler Tim  has claimed responsibility.

Turkish hackers on Friday claimed to have hijacked the official webpages of the Greek Foreign and Finance ministries, the National Intelligence Service (EYP), the Athens Stock Exchange and the Parliament, Greek media reported.
Authorities took down the pages to protect them.

Greece's Finance Minister Christos Staikouras set a number of goals for the economy in 2020, including achieving a high and sustainable growth, before he rang the opening bell in the first session of the Athens Stock Exchange on Thursday.

This year has been a milestone for the local securities' markets, with the Athens Stock Exchange and Greek government bonds recording among the best performances in the world, to the surprise of even the most optimistic observers.

The deterioration of the international climate, with the political crisis in Italy, the escalation of the US-China trade war, the threat of recession in Germany, the likelihood of a no-deal Brexit and the threat of default in Argentina, inevitably casts a shadow on the Greek economy.

Etem Bulgaria and Gestamp North Europe Services received approval from regulators in Brussels and Turkey for the creation of two new joint ventures in Bulgaria, the companies said.

As announced earlier this year, Etem Bulgaria will outsource production of extruded aluminum profiles and their further processing in two separate subsidiaries.