The Greek government may float a stake in Athens International Airport on the Athens Stock Exchange in 2023, Athex Group CEO Yianos Kontopoulos says in Bloomberg TV interview with Tom Mackenzie and Francine Lacqua.

Athens International Airport

Greek Government may list Athens Airport on stockmarket

Does turn our attention to Greece in the economy has actually continue to recover from the pandemic but as a fact of the energy crisis and inflation is likely slow in the coming quarters. However, the Greek economy is performing better than many others in the blocks. And according to a recent report, Greece has met its post bail out targets of Ethics group. The parent company of the Athens. Stock Exchange is in town for the Greek investment conference. Bring some of the biggest exacts its biggest names and companies to the UK prime minister was here earlier in the week as well. The Greek Prime Minister Yiannis, thank you for joining us with the relative resilience of the Greek economy. As you look in 2023. What is your focus with you with the economist camp on that economy holds up into next year? Given the challenges I was told when I was having my previous cop that when micro dislocate. Markets, move in unison. Are you better find some idiosyncratic story to hide, or at least make your returns differentiated every year. So, looking at 2023 grease, hopefully will be one of those examples of thing. You did stand out in 2022 and given, I think, what's baked into the cake? 2023 was going to be one of those years that it's good to be greased for a change. So yeah, it's good to be great but overall what are the capital markets telling us? So if you look at some of the IPL, some of the pipeline's Irene, we're still looking at a shift for your up then. Synergy pressures. And of course, you're always not helping me look up. Grease is coming from outside probably know where in the in the past few years, but I think that's just a bit of a log in Decatur, and the pipeline is getting a bit more interesting. The 11 big-ticket items, I can make a huge difference. I think of any European terms would be the assets International Airport. Which said the government is actually has changed prodigy. Thinking that it might float in the stock exchange that in the course of a 2023 and I will make it will be a thing. Will attract a lot of international attention. It's a good, it's a good investment for Greeks on the retail side. So I think that could definitely just you know, kick in and make a difference. Absolutely. I think look, you're going to have you have a number of different sectors in Greece that are under represented and they've been doing pretty well. In this way, we are going to make cycle shipping has been doing very well towards mortgage me as I mentioned before, real estate in Greece, also has picked up after many many years. So it's it's in a way you can look back and say, oh my God, nothing is happening. And you can look up now, you know, for Wednesday, it's all opportunities you noticed if we can just get things started, Look I'm here. So that's that's one of the of the minor initiatives here if not I know trust me or believe the major listed companies in Greece. I think a group of very significant International open. Is the joined us yesterday and today prime minister came in and just you can all make a advisor. All of this is generating the right interest because we have a very good story to tell as a sided using products Tori and he'd actually be corporate sat there for a record Pace both in the last year and this year. And so that's a that's you know, if you have a recipe to deliver something really good. Now, in terms of other initiatives, you know, you buy thing, what would make a huge difference going forward, will be for grease trucks to go back and to develop Market status, which is the equivalent of the investment-grade for the country. Now this you need to call Broward technical issues on that front. I think we're done with that and then basically he's working on. The perception is like economics, right? Confidence makes a huge difference. So how you are perceived by the market will determine whether they think that you are a developed market and then they will grant you that stop? If it's a little bit funeral. I would say it's a bit the reflexive but that's the nature of the best stability in giving a given recent history and look and I was sitting here in the UK. What was very aware of political instability. In political chaos has not been immune to that as well as the last few years ago. Maybe we can learn something from you next year is going to be elections about political instability of the Greeks learned something out of this. And I think they did it so we will see how things pan out but it's an electoral year and that's always posed as question marks. But I think at the end of the day, you know, the people have had recent experiences and they will you know it's a it's a bad strategy to underestimate your population, right? I think I think they'll do what they what? You know, what they'll assess is better for them. So look for my experience. Call Miss on the strategist more often than not actually politics don't matter. It's a it's a good topic for us to talk on the news and people do care about it and it's it's a lively debate. But most times that's not going to make a difference in the UK. Major of a, pretty big difference. Certainly took to the pension fund system. So you know, politics do matter if you do things that the market does not like what kind of advice to Charlie the politics and policy. Greene cats live through the prices, would you give to the UK now? Stick to what, you know. I think that's, I think, you know, the UK has great traditions and they know how to do things very well. And I think it's very easy to just tilt and go to the the right direction. If you fail to attract the shipping companies to list in Athens, is that an effort that you're going to accelerate or is that they've given up on that is the first thing that I realized in the surprise me as I arrived six months ago and I said, you know, how was it possible not to have any shipping companies listed? So yes, it will happen, you know, by hooker by crook. That's that's my that's one of my targets. But I should say that for a change in the last couple of years, we had the shipping company for the first time listing, corporate box truck, you know that they did that what you do. There is actually pretty similar process in terms of listing, so we are warming them up. I think we're getting closer. Maybe next time. I'll have I have news on that. Good products. I think that's the only difference in a stock exchange. If you bring the right product, the rest will follow.

The specialized police unit that included the five Memphis officers charged with the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols was disbanded on Saturday, as more protests took place in U.S. cities a day after harrowing video of the attack was released. It followed a call from President Joe Biden to the Nichols family, offering his support.

Memphis

Memphis disbands elite unit linked to fatal beating

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has fired the Conservative Party chairman. It comes after an investigation into Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs found he seriously breached ministerial rules when he was chancellor. Questions remain over whether Sunak should have known earlier about Zahawi’s tax dispute.

Downing Street

Top Conservative fired over tax scandal

Former U.S. President Donald Trump had his first formal 2024 election campaign trail events on Saturday with stops in New Hampshire and South Carolina. They were noticeably low-key affairs, in contrast to the loud and lively rallies with thousands of supporters that he often holds.

Columbia

'Bring back world peace': Trump launches campaign

A protester has been killed in Peru during confrontations between demonstrators and police. That takes number of those who have died during the unrest to 58, since former President Pedro Castillo was impeached and imprisoned early last month. Roads in the south have been blocked by protesters after mainly indigenous leaders called a national strike. Food and fuel are running out in the region.

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Protester killed in remote Peru clashes

Serbian superstar defeated Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas for his 10th trophy in Melbourne, equalling Rafael Nadal's 22 Grand Slam titles.

Melbourne

Djokovic wins Australian Open title

One of the world's most expensive cities to live in - Hong Kong - is facing the highest rate of homelessness in a decade. Rising inflation has sent the cost of everything from food to rent soaring, compounding the problem. Experts and social workers blamed the pandemic partly for the sharp increase in street sleepers over the past two years, as people lost their jobs and income.

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Hong Kong has a homeless problem

Ten civilians were killed in Ukraine, including three in Konstantynivka, as Russian artillery targeted homes. Ukraine's army says it has been exacting a heavy toll against Russian soldiers on the battlefield.

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Ukraine says Russia taking 'heavy losses'

Chanting 'no justice, no peace', protesters marched through Memphis following the release of Police footage showing the arrest of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died after five police officers beat him during a traffic stop earlier this month.

Protests break out after Police footage released

The first tennis grand slam of the year has been won by a Belarusian player, Aryna Sabalenka. But because of the invasion of Ukraine, she was not technically allowed to represent her country.

'Neutral' Sabalenka wins Australian Open 

Two people have been injured in a suspected shooting by a Palestinian gunman around Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday morning, in what a police spokesperson has described as a "terrorist attack." In response, Israel's military said it was boosting its forces in the occupied West Bank.

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Israel army deployed amid West Bank violence

After two years of being held online, the revered Sundance Film Festival has returned to showcase the best of independent cinema. A drama about a struggling single mother has taken the Grand Jury Prize.

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Sundance Film Festival returns after two years away

Protesters in Peru have isolated its southeastern city of Puerto Maldonado after three weeks of road blockades. They are demanding constitutional reform. Some vandalised the regional governor's house on Friday. 

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Politicians targeted by Peru protesters

Ukraine has invited the IOC chief, Thomas Bach, to visit his country's frontline after the body indicated it does not want to bar athletes from the Paris 2024 games based on their nationality.

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Ukraine Invasion

Russian Sanctions

Zelenskyy slams IOC decision on Russia

A Palestinian boy, aged 13, shot and injured an Israeli man and his adult son in East Jerusalem. The boy was shot and disarmed by bystanders and taken to hospital in handcuffs.

Palestinian boy shoots two in Jerusalem

The city of Memphis has released harrowing video of the violent encounter between Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old man and the five police officers charged with his murder. The video shows what begins as a traffic stop turning into a manhunt, ending in a violent arrest that led to Nichols' death and the subsequent arrest of the officers involved.

Memphis murder arrest video released

Over a few hours under grey skies, dozens of combat planes and helicopters roar on and off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz. The demonstration of U.S. military power in the hotly contested South China Sea has riled Beijing.

Riau Islands

U.S carrier group enters South China Sea

A San Francisco judge ordered the release of body camera footage showing the moment officers intervened when an alleged assailant attacked the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The footage was released alongside a surveillance video showing the alleged attacker smashing through a glass window to get into the couple's San Francisco home.

San Francisco

Footage shows attack on Pelosi's husband

A Palestinian gunman killed at least seven people and wounded three others after opening fire outside an East Jerusalem synagogue, according to Israeli authorities. Police said the shooter didn't have an organizational affiliation.

Palestinian gunman opens fire outside synagogue

The International Olympic Community has announced that Russian and Belarussian athletes could be allowed to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics under a 'neutral' banner, rather than a Russian or Belarussian flag.

Paris

'No anthem, no flag' for Russian Olympians

After nearly a year of war, prisoners have accumulated on both sides of the border and detention centres in Ukraine are filling with Russian soldiers. Now a TV crew has been given rare access to one of these camps in an undisclosed location, where detainees wait in hope of a prisoner swap to return to their homeland.

Rare access to Russian POW camp

U.S. prosecutors have charged three men with attempting to assassinate a prominent critic of Iran's government who was previously the target of a failed Tehran-backed kidnapping plot, Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Friday.

Washington

Three charged over Iran-backed assassination plot

Novak Djokovic's father Srdjan said on Friday he would not attend his son's Australian Open semi-final and would instead "watch from home", after a video emerged showing him posing at Melbourne Park with fans holding Russian flags.

Djokovic's dad to skip Australian Open finals

The Paris Mayor says she would not 'stand in the way' of Russian and Belarusian athletes competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics, prompting threats of a boycott by Ukraine. The warning came after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it would 'explore a pathway' for athletes from the two countries to participate as neutrals.

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Ukraine threatens to boycott Olympics

The announcement comes one day after the United States and Germany both announced they are sending battle tanks to Ukraine, the first stage of a coordinated effort by the West to provide dozens of the heavy weapons to help Kyiv as Russia's invasion enters its 12th month.

Canada, France pledge more tanks to Ukraine

Rockets were fired by Gaza militants overnight as tensions soared following an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank that killed nine Palestinians, including at least seven militants and a 61-year-old woman.

Rockets fired at Israel after deadly West Bank raid

Peru's President Dina Bolurate is facing growing pressure over her handling of anti-government protests. Trouble began in December when her predecessor was forced from office and imprisoned after trying to dissolve Congress. Protesters want Boluarte to step down.

As deadly protests continue, Peru’s government faces crisis

A World Health Organization committee is meeting on Friday to decide if the COVID-19 pandemic is still a global emergency. Several leading scientists say it may be too early for WHO to declare the end of the pandemic emergency phase. The United Kingdom started easing restrictions in 2021 but is still working to live with the virus. 

Geneva

WHO considers if COVID still an emergency

U.S. President Joe Biden hit out at what he called “MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives” on Thursday for threatening to destroy the economic progress his administration had made and refusing to lift the country’s debt ceiling. Biden called the GOP threat ‘mind-boggling’, during a speech in Virginia.

Richmond

Biden hits out at 'dangerous' Republicans

Five recently-fired Memphis police officers have been charged with murder in the death of Tyre Nichols, who died in hospital three days after a confrontation with officers at a traffic stop. Video of the alleged beating that ensued is due to be released later this week. The five officers have been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault and kidnapping.

Memphis Police officers charged with murder

Nine Palestinians have been killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin. The Israeli military says its troops went in to arrest Islamic Jihad militants planning major attacks.