Yesterday’s News Wrap-up includes the following:

According to ELSTAT, the trade deficit in January 2024 amounted to 2,543.1 million euros, compared to 2,476.7 million euros in the same month of the previous year, marking a 2.7% uptick. Excluding petroleum products the deficit was up by 79.9 million, or 4.3%, while excluding petroleum products and ships it rose by €58.4 million, 3.1%, compared to January 2023.


Tourism Innovation Hub has partnered with governments, and public and private entities worldwide, including Spain, Croatia, Costa Rica, and others, utilizing both Mastercard’s technology and data insights, with the aim of developing a new sustainable business model for the benefit of all stakeholders in the tourism industry.


The Agricultural Cooperative “Union of Messinia” registered the “Kalamata Olive” into the International Register of the Geneva Act, after the Lisbon Agreement of the protected designation of origin (PDO), which protects the product name from a specific region and follows a particular traditional production process.


According to Currys’ statement, the acquisition, expected to be officially completed in the first half of April, is valued at 200 million euros and includes lease obligations totaling 97 million euros.

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