Greece and Cyprus have completely closed their airspace to Russian aircraft, the Greek Civil Aviation Authority and Cypriot Transport Minister Giannis Karousos announced Monday.
The ban will apply to all aircraft registered in Russia and controlled by Russia, including private aircraft.
The Greek authorities said that flights for humanitarian purposes will be excluded from the ban, following obtaining permission from the Greek government.
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Melina Travlos, first woman at the head of the powerful union of shipowners
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
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The election of Melina Travlos represents a symbolic evolution of this environment of the Greek merchant navy, historically very masculine. She spoke on Monday with the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
With our correspondent in Athens, Joel Bronner
Along with the tourism sector, the merchant navy is one of the two lungs of the Greek economy. In Greece, shipowners have a fleet of more than 4,000 ships, which allow this small eastern Mediterranean country to regularly obtain the title of world’s leading merchant navy, in terms of transport capacity.
The greek ships particularly focus on transporting oil and bulk products. And in total, regarding 10% of the wealth produced on Greek territory comes from this area of merchant shipping.
Exit from the seraglio
The presidency of the Union of Greek Shipowners (UGS) is therefore a prestigious position. The one who has just seized it, Melina Travlos, comes from the seraglio, she who notably runs Neptune Lines, founded by her father Nikos, in 1975. This maritime transport company specializes in the transport of automobiles in Europe.
Melina Travlos has been a member of this very selective union of shipowners for 15 years. Before her, another woman had succeeded in integrating her: Christina Onassis, the daughter of one of the most famous Greek shipowners. Melina Travlos thus takes over from Theodoros Veniamis, who led the union of Greek shipowners for more than a decade.
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Rescue crews, including the army, evacuated overnight thousands of people stuck in their cars on a motorway in Athens, following a snowstorm swept across Greece on Monday, blanketing the capital and causing traffic chaos.
More than 3,500 people were evacuated early Tuesday morning, government spokesman Giannis Okonomo said, with some leaving their cars and moving on foot, but regarding 1,200 cars remained stuck on Attiki Odos Road, the capital’s main ring road.
“It was a very difficult night, and the miraculous evacuation efforts are still going on in Atiki Odos,” Oikonomo told a Greek TV channel.
“We are still in a very difficult stage, as all expectations indicate that we will face climatic difficulties once more within a short period,” he added.
Today, the authorities declared a public holiday and closed government offices and private businesses, except for supermarkets, pharmacies and gas stations in the greater Athens area and on some islands.
Parts of Athens experienced blackouts and network operators said crews were working to restore power.
Fifteen passengers were injured when a railcar tried to pull a train carrying regarding 200 passengers that had stopped in heavy snow in central Greece.
Storm Elpida is expected to last until Wednesday.
Albert Bourla, the boss of Pfizer, CEO of the year 2021 according to CNN business
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
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Albert Bourla is the man behind the world’s best-selling Covid-19 vaccine. The boss of Pfizer, CEO of the year 2021 according to CNN business, is a businessman with an atypical career and a meteoric rise, who claims his origins.
He is the one who has achieved the impossible, offering a vaccine nine months following the start of a pandemic that has paralyzed the whole world. Opportunist for some, genius for others, Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, claims to be a fighter. In the book he published shortly following the pandemic, he explains that his background helped prepare him for his responsibilities as a business leader. A Jewish upbringing in Greece and the story of a family that escaped the Holocaust in Thessaloniki in 1941.
Albert Bourla, whose real name is Abraham Bourla, is a gifted student who is passionate regarding animals. He obtained his veterinary degree, then his doctorate in reproductive biotechnology at Aristotle University where Professor Nikolaos Papaioannou, now rector of the prestigious institution, was his classmate.
The young Abraham, spotted by Pfizer, left for Athens where he became a doctor of veterinary medicine and technical director of animal health for the American group.
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Albert Bourla will then experience a dazzling career: appointed in five countries and eight different cities, then it is the trip to New York in 2000 where he will climb all the levels within Pfizer, until being appointed CEO in 2018.
We know the rest of the story: the anti-Covid-19 vaccine which is breaking sales records, a turnover at Pfizer which might exceed 100 billion dollars in 2022, i.e. twice as much as before the pandemic and the name of Albert Bourla forever associated with the fight once morest the pandemic.
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