Business and Pleasure! After the stormy conference of SYRIZA and the reshuffle of local authorities in the party, Stefanos Kasselakis and his husband Tyler Mackbeth made a five-day escape, this time in Arcadia. Tours and rafting on the Lucius River, in Dimitsana had the program among others. And some political videos. Yesterday the president of SYRIZA sneezed with party officials in Stemnitsa and Tripoli. He ate skewers and steaks he shared with Tyler. Today he returns to Athens. At 6 p.m. the SYRIZA Parliamentary Group will be convened to evaluate the debate on the bill on non-state AEIs and will be voted late at night. The president will be present. Then he will repack his bags for the 26th documentary festival in Thessaloniki. On March 15 he will be presented to the army to serve 21 days as a foreign resident. With the look at 2029! Kyriakos Mitsotakis is along with his Croatian counterpart the most powerful leaders of the European People’s Party. In Bucharest, at the EPP conference, he was the most popular leader. A lot of people asked him to pull selfie. He had just arrived from Ukraine where he lived the real drama of the war, the Russian bombing a short distance from the procession of the Greek expedition. They wanted to hear his first-hand experience. Again the discussions on a European post have been rekindled. But diplomatic sources in Brussels show in 2029, after the next European elections and the new Community institutions to be set up then. Early election scenario In such a case the scenario of early elections is likely. For example in Spring 2026. The opposition will hardly have been regrouped (SYRIZA and PASOK) and ND will win. By 2029 the European elections will somehow be launched and the succession in the Southwest. In the lounges Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister and with the European profile he builds, there is no way he can be found in the lounges in Brussels. The position of the President of the European Council is usually taken by a former or current Prime Minister. Of course scenarios for early elections in the two and a half years etc. were heard after the first New Democracy victory in 2019. But the four years have run out. And as the Prime Minister usually says to his interlocutors “you will listen to me what I say, not to others”! He himself has denied the European post and stressed that it is an honor to be Prime Minister of Greece. 80% “Yes” for Ursula His support for Ursula Von Der Leien’s nomination for the position of President of the Commission, he reaffirmed the European People’s Party in Bucharest with which he lit the engines ahead of the June 9 European elections. In the vote taken, he voted yes for Ursula 80% and 20% NO or white. Small losses may have come from France, Slovenia, etc.The blur for Michel Unknown is still if European Council President Charles Michel will take a second term. He caused unrest and discontent when he expressed his intention to come to his country as a Member of Parliament in Belgium. This practically meant that he should leave the Presidency of the European Council earlier, thus passing on to Victor Orban as Hungary will have the EU presidency for the six months of July – December 2024, that is, the months that will be decided by all persons for the new Community institutions. Eventually he was convinced not to do it but because he caused dissatisfaction they have him waiting for. Lots of watermelons! A lot of dust has been lifted by the statement made by SYRIZA State MP and Harvard professor Otto Iliopoulos that he has a workload and at some point he will have to choose what he will keep. “I run a clinic, run a laboratory, we have very big clinical successes lately, I work with the outcasts too, I try to be in Parliament and I come and go,” he said in Attica. “Sometime inevitably there will be the question of what I hold, what I leave”. Because two watermelons don’t fit in the same armpit. Asked by the column whether he has a horizon when he will make his final decisions Mr.Iliopoulos did not reply. Five resignations A resignation of Iliopoulos opens the way for Stefanos Kasselakis to enter the Parliament. He is 9th in the State and to be elected a Member of Parliament should resign the interim five runner-up. The possibility of automatically taking the position of Heliopoulos as an outcast does not exist. The law imposes on the first three seats of the ballot of State to be one of the out-of-state but does not impose being within the elected. Poppy! Former SYRIZA representative Poppy Tsapanidou, the director of Alexis Tsipras’ political office Michael Kalogeros, Jenny Levadaros, Athanasios Tsakris and Georgeta Lali are the runner-up. The column asked Poppy Tsapanidou whether she would resign or hold the seat, but did not answer. It will be difficult, however, to refuse if the other four declare that they will resign for the president. In other words, different is Kasselakis’ unmediated contact with citizens, the comfort of error and correction in a TikTok or in a video and other unmediated (without Famelus) contact with his political opponents in Parliament. That’s where he’ll see if he’s a leader. Quiz: Is it true that known political officials paid a fine for embezzling sms in the election period? If so, hypocrisy will strike red because especially one is a banner for Anna Michel Asimakopoulou’s e-mails. And a fine for the Privacy Authority to impose on it, however, high-ranking sources of the Maximus state that it will normally descend to the European elections. Lavrio and the other ports without a train began, then, the TAIPED the competition to grant the port of Lavrio without any visibility of when it will be connected to the suburban or when the extensions of Attica Road, one of which reaches Lavrio, will proceed. And we hear they’re interested in different investors, known names most of them. And one wonders at what value we would grant a port connected to the railway and at what value we will grant it now that it does not have that advantage. There in the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, who announced the competition for the project to expand the suburban in the department of Koropi – Lavrio to give some priority? And, above all, find the money. Of course, Ch. Staikouras has a lot of holes to close, and he’s always with the book in his pocket. The 25-year record for the stock of GEK TERNA A new 25-year record was scored yesterday by the stock of GEK TERNA which closed up, in a negative meeting, at 15.22 euros. Analysts, as recently Axia who set the price – a target of 24.8 euros per share, consider that the share of the group is gradually reflected in the Attica Road. And that the valuation of the group must be equivalent to other concession companies, which have a long life as in the case of GEK TERNA. Such a company is the Spanish Ferrovial that negotiates 25 times the business value relationship that operating profits (EV / EBITDA). The shares in the construction industry are running as the rise of close to 100% for ABax’s share over the last year and the rise of over 230% for Intrakat’s share. AIA invests in RES Among the investments promoted by Athens International Airport (AIA) managed by the airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” include the construction (has already started) of a photovoltaic power park of 35.5 MW, which will include an energy storage system of 82 MWh, to achieve the zero carbon footprint target (Net Zero) for Directs (Ped 1) and Indirects (Level 2) Gas emissions by 2025. Of the other details announced yesterday by the administration the column retains revenues and other income from Non-Air Activities that last year amounted to 134.8m euros, with an increase of 23.2% compared to 2022. The revenues per passenger of EUR 4.8 were increased by 17.1% compared to 2019, significantly higher than the corresponding passenger traffic increase. The curse of Berberda! It is a property with a total area of almost 628 acres, with unlimited views of mountain, sea and Ververonta lagoon. And yet, TAIPED did not even manage to find a serious buyer in the second competition. The Wutos Construction, the local broker, did not deposit an improved financial offer and the competition was declared barren last week. Why can’t he attract investors to such a privileged property? Knowing people say that very powerful factors that already have cottages in Porto Heli do not see with any good eye the use of the property, which is also licensed for a private airport! The same strong factors believe that, as in many Greek islands, Porto Heli has now been saturated with tourism investments. So they’re doing everything they can to keep other plans from going from sheiks and Irish ticks. CVC always rings twice! The known travel goods company, etc. with a history of 115 years had been purchased in 2007 by CVC Capital and in 2011 it had been admitted to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Through admission the investment company had already made enough money. CVC is now included in the candidates for re-acquirement to Samsonite but must compete with Carlyle, Bain Capital and DCP Capital Partners. The company’s value is currently almost three times as high as the time CVC first entered its share capital.
Life is nice for St. Kasselakis, Kyriakos looks towards 2029 with a scenario of early elections, the ports without train, the 25-year record of GEK TERNA and the curse of Verberonda
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