ATHENS – “We have entered the final stretch, everything has been put into order,” Development and Investments Minister Adonis Georgiadis said on Monday regarding the progress of the Hellenikon project.
Speaking to “Praktoreio 104.9 FM”, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency’s (ANA) radio station, Georgiadis said that a draft bill tabled by Infrastructure and Transport ministry in Parliament included all regulations to facilitate the immediate start of works in Hellenikon project, “soon after completion of an international tender for the casino license”. The minister said Hard Rock International has a January 31 deadline to lodge an appeal against a decision awarding the license to the other candidate in the tender. “I can understand it when a company losing a tender is not pleased but in a tender someone loses, someone wins,” Georgiadis said.
He underlined the need to begin a public consultation on what to do with the area of the current airport in Heraklion, Crete, ahead of the start of works for the construction of a new international airport in Kasteli.
Commenting on the course of the Greek economy and the prospect of renegotiating targets for primary surpluses, Georgiadis said: “The first indications are excellent, all international organisations are revising their forecasts for the growth of the Greek economy upwards, credit rating agencies are upgrading Greece, interest rates continue falling – I don’t see why we cannot move exceptionally…A discussion has begun on surpluses and decisions are expected in the next few weeks. I am confident that this discussion will get somewhere. In Europe, always, these discussions take time and are the result of compromise”.
ATHENS - Adding to its presence in Greece 15 years after jumping in, Google is planning more investments, including creating data centers, cloud services and applications based on Artificial Intelligence.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. George Santos of New York is facing a critical vote to expel him from the House on Friday as lawmakers weigh whether his actions, fabrications and alleged lawbreaking warrant the chamber's most severe punishment.
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — After a record-breaking start as Tottenham manager, Ange Postecoglou is experiencing the other side to life in a job that has proved too much for some of the biggest names in soccer.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted on Friday to expel Republican Rep.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died Friday.
He wasn’t the first one to think about it but a humor columnist for POLITICO suggested - ironically, of course - that if Greeks want back the stolen Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum that they should just steal them back, old boy.
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