Today’s news about the new superfund head Within today’s day it is heard that the name of the new CEO of the superfund that recently wants to be mentioned as Growthfund so as not to be linked to the then-famous memory agreement of the Syriza government to mortgage state property for 100 years to lenders! The CEO of TAIPEDE (absorbed by the Super Fund) Dimitris Politis has serious chances to take the position. The current head of the EYSYP SA, the company we call superfund, Gregory D. Dimitriadis will probably be used in another position. The single scheme created will not have the sole objective of exploiting state property and mainly real estate. Both the leadership of the Ministry of Economy and Finance and Gr.Dimitriadis promoted the establishment of a state investment fund under the SASYPA that will start operating in the year we are going through. The first funds for this fund come from the return of the shares of EYDAP and EIATH to the public, due to a decision of the Council of State requiring the two water and sewer companies to be public. The Ivan Savidis counterattack and Dreyfus response Did we say that the Capital Market Commission should have faster reflexes and had already discussed the public proposal of the Louis Dreyfuss family for OLTh? The law gives her time, but the situation on the Stock Exchange dashboard shows that things are getting out of hand. The share is already much higher than the 27 euros the French give to the public offering, Ivan Savides’ side buys shares at much higher levels to set up its defenses and scenarios give and take. The Dreyfuss family does not seem willing to limit itself to anything less than the control of the port of Thessaloniki through the PPA. Despite what is said in the announcements on the public proposal to obtain 21%. Next week, as the column wrote, one of the family members will be in Athens in order to have contacts. People who deal with the port say that the French have attempted many times over the last few months to communicate with the Savvidi side but have constantly stumbled upon someone who was not Savidis! The Thymiou Lymberopoulos interview and Traffic While the taxi drivers were hosting a press conference on Marnis Street, traffic appeared and began writing! Suddenly he emptied the panel of speakers who rushed down the street to beg the police not to write them because of an interview! From the balcony Mr Thymios Lyberopoulos shouted and explained and finally we avoided the calls! What do cab drivers want? To continue to move old taxi vehicles in Athens, to abolish the default price for the carriage of passengers from Eleftherios Venizelos airport, to extend until 2035 (from 1.1.2026) the regulation for the compulsory purchase of electric taxis, to allow entry into buses by law, to be specified specifically for taxi drivers tax-free of 12,000 euros. These are just a few of the requests made yesterday by the SATA representatives. Thymios Lyberopoulos, who had kept relatively low tons in recent years, seems to be back on the branch! The column is calm especially when the sympathetic industry benefits from the explosion of the tourist wave to Athens and the rest of Greece. Even less than the cab unionists would like. The expansion in shipping and other Sunlight investments It is in the news because of the decision not to go ahead with the investment in the gigaffactory of Western Macedonia but Sunlight is moving to other branches and countries. The Greek company acquires a strategic share in a German shipping battery company and partnered with a long tradition in the maritime sector. So Sunlight, as those who watch the battery market say, dynamically enters a rapidly growing industry with increased demand for sustainable solutions, electrical and hybrid systems, that reduce emissions and promote sustainability, enhanced by technological developments and strict regulations that enter shipping. In Greece the company has invested more than 500m euros over the last five years creating around 1,000 well-paid new jobs in the country while a respectable amount of these 500m euros has gone to acquisitions for expansion abroad. In Greece Sunlight continues to invest and produce innovative products in the industrial plant in Xanthi, it has the (most advanced unit in its kind in the western world) lead recycling plant in Komotini, while in Kilkis-based Sunlight Technologies it invests 100m euros to expand the production of raw materials and components for energy storage systems. Metlen’s critical raw materials and investment because yesterday there was a communication storm for Metlen’s investment, which would reach EUR 300 million, and allow the Aluminion plant to increase its production capacity and also produce French, one of the metals needed by the European Union for many green technologies and semiconductors, the column has little to fill. 95% of gallium is currently produced in China while both the US and the European Union have classified it in the metals linked to their national security. Metlen’s investment will allow the EU. fully meet its French needs as China has imposed restrictions on its exports. The move, however, complements in the best way what Evangelos Mytileneus has said about the need for strategic autonomy of the EU in critical areas and policies. Are new players coming to the supermarket – apartment stadium? New players may look at supermarket activities on the real estate stadium of residential properties. Officially, so far, only “Masuti” has made relevant announcements, which has announced the construction of apartments over super-market giant in the area “Three Bridges” in Athens. The column is informed that another large supermarket chain, which is active in our country, is “considering” to proceed to enter this stadium. In fact the model of this superchain for the development of new stores already clearly provides for the possibility of adding extra floors that extend far beyond those of a typical food market. But we are now not just talking about possibility, but about the fact that it is “considering” its activation. European experience, for example in Germany, shows that the “additional floors addition” concerns residential properties, i.e. apartments, which are leased to citizens or businesses. New battlefield 24 months of electricity tariffs Elin became the first company to offer a fixed electricity invoice with a duration of 24 months and more are expected to follow. This is a category that was not previously available in recent years with the multi-coloured tariff system, since the largest fixed was at 12 months. Market conditions are now considered to favour them, and RIS support their expansion. The aim is to enable consumers to have access to a reasonable price for a long period of time so that they do not ‘head off’ every few months. The Court of Auditors and the Recovery Fund The finance ministry leadership, speaking yesterday (16.01.2020) to journalists, was also invited to comment on the Court of Auditors’ recent report on the implementation of the recovery and resilience plan. In response, they stressed that the relevant European institutions and services are passing through ‘cosine’ Greece and every other Member State, in what is to do with the implementation of all Community-based programmes. In addition, they added that the Recovery Fund has specific time and quantitative milestones that Greece maintains, which is why it is in the highest positions in terms of both disbursement and payment requests that it has filed, positions that are expected to improve in the coming period. They therefore stress the executives of the MIIC, the Court of Auditors’ report, is taken into account, but only as conclusions and recommendations, as it does not constitute a result of legal control. Why does the government tear down IOBE’s health insurance index? The reason why the government rips off the IOBE health insurance index explains the explanatory statement of the relevant amendment tabled yesterday by the Minister of Development, Takis Theodorikos in Parliament. In particular, it states that “the adjustment of health insurance premiums based on the Single Health Index (SPV), leads, due to the assumptions of training the indicator, to excessive annual adjustments of the above insurance premiums.” ‘In particular,’ the report notes, ‘the single health index is constantly increasing because, in particular, the non-renewal of the portfolios of long-term health insurance contracts, since this category of insurance products has already been offered on the market for many years. This results in the continued increase of the IMI leading to a disproportionate burden on this category of insured persons’. It is noted that the amendment concerns only health insurance premiums for more than one year.
Today’s news of the new head of the Super Fund, the Ivan Savvidis counterattack, the Thymiou Lyberopoulos interview, and the Traffic players in investments in supermarkets with apartments and the new two-year blue electricity tariffs.
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