Schroder Salomon Smith Barney on Monday forecast that Greek consumer price inflation would rise to 3.2 percent in April from 3.0 percent a month earlier. The National Statistics Service of Greece is due to announce April's inflation on Tuesday. Turkeys military has reportedly rejected the helicopter transport of Greeces naval chief to a Turkish base in the Aegean because the aircraft will land at the Dodecanese island of Rhodes. Greece's navy chief was originally scheduled to attend a command transfer ceremony at the Turkish naval base of Axaz. Countries participating in the force on a permanent basis are Germany, Greece, Italy, Turkey and Spain.
Periodical participants are Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States.
The incident comes amid ever-improving ties between the two neighbours, although certain 'core differences' directly related to Turkey's unilateral claims in the Aegean remain. Athens has for decades patiently pointed to International Law, maritime and shipping pacts, as well as a handful of internationally recognised treaties as negating all of Ankara's claims. Keranis, which belongs to listed Keranis Holding SA, is to start importing and distributing cigarettes on May 14 as part of an alliance with ETI of Italy, company officials told a news conference in Athens on Monday. In the first phase, Keranis will handle MS Full Flavour, MS Lights and MS Club Slim, which rank second in Italy, holding 30 percent of the market, the officials said. ETI is a former state cigarette and salt monopoly.