The (non) parties and the polls, the tax-relief app, basketball and the AI guru, the shipowners and the embassy, Ivan and M.M

-Hello there, I asked my root connected polling matters to remark connected a survey that shows, isolated from the mainstream parties, precise precocious acceptance rates for rumored-to-be-founded parties (Tsipras, Samaras, Karystianou—another 40%) and got the reply that “if you adhd each of these unneurotic the numbers easy surpass 100%, truthful it would beryllium champion not to instrumentality everything astatine look value.” On different enactment now, the Finance Ministry on with the Ministry of Digital Policy volition motorboat successful 15–20 days an exertion wherever anyone tin input their fiscal data—salary, pension, income and expenses—and it volition cipher precisely what taxation they volition wage (and what taxation they volition save) from January, truthful that everyone tin recognize the alleviation measures. Well, if you don’t get it, you tin ever Facetime Pierre—or amended yet, Petralias, who’s the ‘technician of the craft’—to springiness you the details.

And the AI guru “succumbed” to hoops fever
-Not once, not twice, but 3 times K.M volition conscionable with the AI guru Sir Demis Hassabis, who volition beryllium successful municipality these days. At noon, astatine M.M, determination volition beryllium a gathering with Vice President Chatzidakis and the applicable ministers, portion successful the evening K.M is among the speakers astatine the Athens Innovation Summit astatine the Herodion. The organizers were forced to determination the lawsuit earlier due to the fact that it clashed with the National Team’s crippled against Turkey. The archetypal docket had the commencement aft 9 p.m., but the Greece–Turkey semifinal for EuroBasket 2025 forced them to bring it guardant to 19:45, truthful that aft the sheet everyone could astatine slightest drawback the 2nd half. I stitchery the Prime Minister volition besides be Saturday’s yearly Endeavor gathering successful Costa Navarino, wherever the British-Cypriot idiosyncratic is the impermanent of honor.

Trip to Riga?
-Needless to say, everyone is waiting to spot the result of today’s game. Now, if we marque it to the final, don’t regularisation retired the script of Mitsotakis flying to Riga connected Sunday for the crippled against the victor of Germany–Finland, though personally I don’t judge it. From the authorities broadside truthful far, lone Vroutsis has traveled to Latvia.

The Papastavrou–Bergam lunch
-The docket of American “energy czar” Dan Bergam successful Athens didn’t conscionable see meetings; astatine Revithoussa, Papastavrou had arranged a airy luncheon with a Greek touch. Here’s the menu: the array opened with fava with smoked eel, followed by oversea bass ceviche, and the main was sautéed grouper with zucchini risotto. Dessert was portokalopita, paired of people with Greek wines—a rosé from Alpha Estate and a achromatic Ovilos from Biblia Chora. No wonderment the “czar” aboriginal made glowing remarks astir Greek-American cooperation…

Table No. 2 astatine the embassy
-Enthusiastic, though exhausted from his packed program—including meetings with the Prime Minister, visits to Revithoussa and the shipyards, positive luncheon with businesspeople—the American Secretary of the Interior and “energy czar” N. Bergam arrived astatine the ambassador’s residence, wherever the embassy had organized a reception successful his honor. The reception, which opened with a minute’s soundlessness for the victims of 9/11, saw the attendance of astir fractional the cabinet—S. Papastavrou, A. Georgiadis, Th. Plevris, T. Theodorikakos, V. Kikilias, I. Kefalogianni, N. Kerameos, Ch. Theocharis, N. Tsafos—as good arsenic the Chief of Defense General D. Choupis. Also notable was the concern beingness from vigor and shipping: D. Kopelouzos, M. Latsi, G. Prokopiou, V. Marinakis, Th. Kyriakou, Giann. Alafouzos, G. Papalekas, Al. Exarchou, positive respective institution reps and a fewer journalists. The American curate spoke warmly of practice with Greece, making peculiar notation of the country’s progress. His main enactment was clear: “Friends and allies should bargain vigor from the U.S. and not from our enemies.” He did not fell U.S. ambitions to flood the Balkans and Eastern Europe with American LNG, utilizing Greece arsenic the hub. Both helium and the chargé d’affaires Josh Huck besides conveyed greetings from Kimberly Guilfoyle, who would person been the authoritative hostess had her assignment been confirmed successful time.

Nolita alternatively of Athenian Club
-Since we’re connected the taxable of tables, fto maine archer you that the decades-old regular ellipse of the Athenian Club has present permanently relocated from Syntagma to Nolita successful Neo Psychiko. That means Prokopis (the 1 and only) Sallas, Arvanitopoulos, and yesterday’s impermanent prima Karamanlis (of Rafina), spotted by galore since they didn’t spell into the restaurant’s backstage room. Don’t look for a menu—they’ve been eating unneurotic for decades, truthful it’s conscionable a gathering.

Ivan and M.M
-My root told maine that calm and relations betwixt Ivan (I judge helium has near for Rostov) and M.M person somewhat been restored. The… evil tone Telis (Mystakidis) has turned backmost to PAOK basketball, if that materializes; Savvidis is presently preparing lone a insubstantial program for the stadium; apparently, the mediators met successful Thessaloniki implicit the past 3 days; and beingness goes on.

Which Greek shipowners went to the American embassy
-Last week I wrote astir the moving luncheon the U.S. Embassy hosted for Greek shipowners and shipping executives. Today I person names. It took maine a fewer days, but I didn’t privation to permission the study unfinished. The luncheon was closed-door, which successful itself is telling. Among the attendees: a apical enforcement from Maran of the Maria Angelicoussis group; a typical of Angeliki Frangou’s Navios Partners, listed connected the NYSE; Dr. Nikos Tsakos of Tsakos Energy Navigation, besides listed connected the NYSE; Aristeidis Ioannis Alafouzos with Okeanis Eco Tankers, likewise NYSE-listed; Stamatis Tsantanis, president and CEO of Nasdaq-listed Seanergy and United Maritime; Dimitris Theodorou Angelopoulos; Haris Plakantonaki, Chief Strategy Officer of Petros Pappas’s Star Bulk, listed connected Nasdaq. Also present: the president of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping, Giorgos Alexandratos; Ilias Karyampas of the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS); Dorothea Ioannou, CEO of the American P&I Club; and Kostis Fragoulis, president of the Propeller Club Port of Piraeus. The moving luncheon was an embassy initiative, specifically by chargé d’affaires Josh Huck, who’s hyperactive these days, gathering authorities officials and entrepreneurs, focusing chiefly connected vigor and shipping. A person with experience: earlier this post, helium served arsenic Deputy Assistant Secretary of State overseeing argumentation for Southern Europe and the Caucasus, and arsenic Director of the Office of Southern European Affairs.

Intralot: Vote “yes” astatine the assembly and… you’ll get paid
-The banal marketplace has been near stunned by Intralot’s determination to wage €40 (per €1,000 bond) to its bondholders, provided they ballot successful favour of the docket items astatine the upcoming wide assembly connected Monday. Nothing similar this has ever happened earlier successful Greece, and the authorities, I hear, person mobilized their lawyers to determine however to grip it. Specifically, successful the announcement for the €130 cardinal bondholders’ meeting, Intralot clarifies that regarding the “attendance interest of €40 per bond,” the beneficiary is immoderate idiosyncratic oregon ineligible entity contiguous oregon lawfully represented astatine the meeting, archetypal oregon repeat. The interest is payable lone if each items of the archetypal docket are yet approved. If not each items are approved, nary outgo is made. The €40 magnitude volition beryllium paid once, aft ineligible deductions. In different words: ballot “yes” and you’ll get paid. Authorities are examining the inaugural legally, since determination is nary precedent successful Greece. General assemblies autumn nether the Development Ministry, but the Capital Market Commission is besides looking into it. Greek instrumentality has nary specified provision, and the interest could beryllium seen arsenic compromising shareholders’ escaped will. However, Intralot argues that paying bondholders for a affirmative ballot is simply a communal signifier abroad, and that’s wherefore they chose to use it successful this case.

A beef breaks retired betwixt Panteliadis (My Market) and Sepetas (Vikos)
-A abrupt beef broke retired betwixt the Panteliadis household (Epirus AEBE, My Market) and the Sepetas household (Vikos) implicit who owns the sanction “Vikos.” Epirus, a dairy institution of the Panteliadis group, started advertizing a achromatic food nether the marque sanction Vikos, present connected supermarket shelves. The Sepetas household reacted with a connection saying the usage of the Vikos sanction causes user disorder and reserved each ineligible rights. Last night, Epirus issued its ain statement—not addressing Vikos straight but alternatively the media reports (as you know, it’s ever the journalists’ fault)—arguing determination is nary disorder betwixt Vikos food and products from different categories, and that they’ve had the Vikos trademark registered since 2001.