. Bakis Tsalkos was a cornerstone in the company that led the way in making elegant and high quality wines in northern Greece, Ktima Nico Lazaridi. A chemistry graduate of Marseilles University with post-graduate diplomas in oenology from Montpellier, Bakis spent three years in Bordeaux before working almost two decades with Lazaridi. He left in
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PricewaterhouseCoopers Cyprus was awarded with the Institute of Certified Public Accountants (ICPAC) Quality Checked certificate during a ceremony which recently took place at the Hilton Cyprus Hotel. The ceremony was attended by the Practice Monitoring Director of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Sha Ali Khan, and other guests. The certificate is awarded to
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Cyprus and Greece gave a guarded reception on Monday to the election of Turkish Cypriot nationalist Dervis Eroglu, with Cyprus saying it could set back reunification talks key to Turkey's bid to join the EU. Eroglu, a staunch backer of Turkish Cypriot independence, won presidential elections on Sunday in the breakaway enclave of northern Cyprus,
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Greek banks shares fell 3.5 percent on Monday, underperforming European peers <.SX7P> and the broader Greek market <.ATG> on worries over the impact of widening yield spreads and austerity measures on the weakening economy. "The slide reflects market worries over the impact of possible new austerity measures on the real economy and banks, with high
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Worries about the impact of fraud charges against Goldman Sachs rattled stock markets on Monday, sending investors in search of less speculative currencies and boosted government bonds. It combined, in Europe, with concerns over the economic impact of disruption of commerce due to the cloud of Icelandic volcanic ash, which has already cost the airline industry
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Toyota Motor Corp has agreed to pay a record $16.4 million fine to U.S. safety regulators in response to the government's claim that it knowingly delayed a massive accelerator pedal recall in January, a government official said. The settlement between the U.S. Department of Transportation and the world's largest automaker is expected to be signed
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A new publishing company is betting that readers will bypass electronic readers such as Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader in favor of reading bite-sized stories on mobile devices they already own. Ether Books will launch at the London Book Fair on Monday, and will offer a catalog of short stories, essays and poetry initially via
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A joint mission of European officials and the International Monetary Fund to Greece has been delayed by the volcanic ash cloud and will arrive on Wednesday if possible, Greece's Finance Ministry said on Sunday. Struggling under a huge budget shortfall and debt pile, Greece requested the talks with the European Union, the European Central Bank
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Europe begins a new working week on Monday with officials hoping to significantly increase flights to half the normal number and the EU discussing how to tackle the 5-day-old air travel crisis caused by volcanic ash. Pressure was building on authorities for a solution because the closure of most of Europe's airspace has cost the
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Global finance leaders face fractious talks this week on how to shift more voting power at the World Bank to emerging economic heavyweights such as China, a prelude to a bigger fight over the IMF. World Bank President Robert Zoellick also told Reuters in an interview that plans were coming together for a $3.5 billion
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