The Greek President raises the issue of German war debts to Greece with his German counterpart; results of the stress tests of Greek banks are released; the head of the anti-money laundering authority says the media was an accomplice in bank scandals; Chinese investors seek to control Athens airport; and troika demands end subsidies for transport links to remote islands. Image by Dimitris Hanztopoulos for TA NEA.

KATHIMERINI
 
Papoulias raises issue of forced Greek WWII loan, Gauck speaks of ‘moral culpability’
 

The issues of German war reparations and the loan Greece was forced to make during its occupation which, as he said, have been outstanding since the second world war, were raised by President of the Hellenic Republic, Karolos Papoulias, in his meeting yesterday with his German counterpart, Joachim Gauck, who is conducting a three-day visit to the country. Mr Gauck referred to the ‘culpability on a moral level’ of the Germans with regards to the victims of the occupation and expressed his solidarity with Greece’s attempts to emerge from the crisis. 

ETHNOS
 
The gamble of the banks following the stress tests
 
Capital requirements are 6.38 billion euros according to the Bank of Greece
 


Ethniki: €2.183 bln
Eurobank: €2.945 bln
Piraeus: €425 mln
Alpha: €262 mln

Piraeus ‘re-raises’ with €1.75bln injection

EFIMERIDA TON SYNTAKTON

The head of the Authority against money-laundering launches missile:

Multiple bank scandals have occurred with the media as an accomplice

The head of the Authority charged with combating money laundering provided a vivid description to the Parliamentary Committee of Institutions and Transparency of the dirty games and subterranean financial routes which were used over a number of years by bankers/media outlet owners, such as L. Lavrentiadis and V. Restis for their own personal enrichment.
As Panagiotis Nikoloudis said, in our times we have a new type of criminal. “They are not people on the fringes, to the contrary, they are well educated and they have studied money laundering particularly well.”

KERDOS

The Chinese investors are unyielding over the airport ‘Eleftherios Venizelos’

The consortium of Friedmann Pacific Asset Management Limited (FPAM) and Shenzhen Airport (Group) Co. Ltd will seek the majority share in, and management of, the Athens International Airport, with the goal of converting the airport ‘El. Venizelos’ into a functional international hub for passengers and cargo, as they stated. 

DIMOKRATIA
 
Remote islands to face isolation!
 
The troika is asking (yet again!) for cuts to the subsidies for ferry boat lines to small islands.