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The Greek newspaper "Kathimerini" published a confidential document dated October 8, 2019 that is signed by the head of the Public Prosecution for Corruption Eleni Touloupaki, revealing the identity of two of the three protected witnesses.

Greece-China relations have entered a new era, characterized by a dynamic cultural and economic collaboration, said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Xinhua News Agency on Saturday.

Deputy Minister of Agricultural Development and Food Konstantinos Skrekas referred to potential challenges that might be faced by Greek farmers in the near future.

Intrum aims for a long-term investment in Greece, Mikael Ericson the company's CEO said on Friday. Speaking to reporters in Athens, Ericson expressed his satisfaction over the quality of the human resources and of the management team of Intrum in Greece and noted that the aim of Intrum Hellas was the offer long-term and sustainable repayment solutions to Piraeus Bank's debtors, while it also aspires to take over the management of third-party portfolios in the future.

Greece is pushing ahead with two luxury tourism investments in Crete and the Peloponnese, worth some 850 million euros, that have been caught up in red tape for more than ten years. Permits are being issued for the Kilada Hills resort, an investment located in the eastern Peloponnese' Argolida area, and the Elounda Hills resorts in northern Crete.

Greece's sale of a 30 percent stake in the Athens International Airport drew stronger than expected investor interest, in what could earn the country more than 1.5 billion euros in revenues, while also giving a major push to its stalled privatizations program. Expected dividends of 1.1 billion euros connected to the 30 percent stake between 2026 to 2046 drew ten bids from some of the world's largest investors in infrastructure and airport management companies.

In one of the biggest projects to go ahead in Greece in recent years, three bidders are expected to submit bids on Thursday for the construction of two power conversion plants that will form part of the Attica-Crete grid electricity connector. Along with international partners, the three bidders have their eye on the tender, worth 380 million euros, that has been extended twice.

Concerns are rising that a political crisis in northern Macedonia may spill over onto other Balkan nations, prompting the risk of social unrest arising, as the European dream in the region starts to fade, analysts from two leading think tanks, US Stratfor and the European Policy Center (EPC) in Brussels, tell Business Daily.

Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Constantinos Fragoyiannis, underlined the importance of the investment to the growth of the Greek economy and expressed his certainty that in the next 2-3 months there will be very important investments in Greece.

The European Central Bank's Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) has rejected a key term of Greece's Hercules plan, a proposal aimed at helping banks reduce bad loans, casting doubts over the future of the scheme, sources have told Business Daily. Τhe SSM has decided that the only way for state guarantees on bad loans being securitized to carry zero risk is for Greece to commit respective cash amounts.