Port of Thessaloniki: A gateway and transport hub for the country, for the Balkans and the wider SE European region Business File, June-July-August 2017, No. 111 Infrastructure/Ports The port of Thessaloniki is already added to the list of major foreign investors in Greece’s maritime assets. e new list of port privatisations includes, among others, the ports [...]

Real Estate: A key factor for Greek banks’ liquidity efforts Business File, January-February-March 2017, No. 109 Banking With NPLs equal to 45% of the whole value of their loan portfolios, Greek banks intensify their efforts to minimise their losses. Greek banks’ non-performing loans (NPLs) have become like a “noose in the neck” for the health [...]

Change of the negative situation: most urgent but not probable in the years to come Business File, January-February-March 2017, No. 109 Politics Tassos Giannitsis and Stavros Zografakis focus on inequalities, poverty, economic disarray in the years of crisis and keep low expectations for the reversal of the present situation in the near future. Our analysis allowed us [...]

The economic crisis and the retardants of growth in Greece Business File, April-May 2017, No. 110 Politics Unemployment is rising, social inequality is widening, and prudent governance is being prevented. Even when some temporary economic growth is achieved, it is accompanied by high jobless rate. Any attempt to change, reform and adjust society fails because [...]

Shipping in the sights of Brussels Business File, April-May 2017, No. 110 Interview Panos Laskaridis, President elect of ECSA, guides us through the maze of the European debate. The Commission has opened a preliminary enquiry on Greece about the taxation regime of shipping. At present, the expecta- tion is that a satisfactory consensus solution may be reached. A recurrent issue [...]

"Building bridges with other nations and societies" Business File, April-May 2017, No. 110 Interview James Stavridis’ role both in the military and diplomacy required for international a airs means he is a proponent of “smart power”, defined as the “balance of hard and soft power taken together.” Stavridis has encouraged the creation of security through [...]

Hopeful signs for ship financing from EU banks The international and EU framework on capital requirements for ships has an impact on the cost of their nancing. In the a ermath of the 2008 nancial crisis ship lending from banks has become more costly and scarce at international and EU level. Bank lending is subject to the Basel III [...]

The new age of e-Government: Public administration without borders Business File, June-July-August 2017, No. 111 Public Sector Public Administration stubbornly refuses the transformation to a modern e-Government despite the pressure from the citizens and the constant demand by the Europeans and the IMF. Stavros-Ioannis Benos, a true pioneer of e-Government in Greece, explains in his [...]

Raphael Moissis reflects on the electricity sector in Greece - and the PPC Business File, June-July-August 2017, No. 111 Energy The recent government’s agreement to sell about 40% of the dominant power utility Public Power Corp’s capacity makes Dr Moissis, former governor of PPC, very skeptical. For that reason he outlines his impressive, heretical proposal [...]

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