By A. Tsimplakis [email protected]
The port of Piraeus reached fourth place among all European ports in terms of container traffic for 2020, barely edging out Valencia to claim “first place”…
New confirmed instances of Covid-19 eased on Wednesday, a day after exceeding the 3,000-mark in Greece. Specifically, 2,633 new cases were detected.
Related deaths over the past 24 hours reached…
A primary suspect in Tuesday evening’s attack on a motorcycle police officer in southern Athens’ Nea Smyrni district has reportedly been arrested and transferred to police headquarters in the Greek…
The EU has approved of a program by the Greek government to funnel 60 million euros towards the support of SMEs severely affected by the ongoing pandemic.
The sum was…
A large protest demonstration against police brutality in a southern Athens district turned ugly on Tuesday evening, with dozens of firebombs thrown at riot police, with the latter responding with…
Another surge in the number of new confirmed Covid-19 instances was recorded on Tuesday, with 3,215 cases detected, the highest daily tally in 2021 so.
Worse, another 46 related deaths…
The youngest victim of the Covid-19 pandemic in Greece was recorded on Monday, with a 37-day-old infant boy added to the macabre list of victims.
The infant had been hospitalized…
A rare marine phenomenon in the Aegean over the past week has seen shorelines recede from the Thermaikos Gulf in northern Greece to the popular Kavouri beach in coastal southeast…
The number of intubated patients being treated in hospital ICUs for acute Covid-19 symptoms reached another record high for the current year, at 477.
The number of single-day new Covid-19…
Greece’s most notorious urban terrorist, who continued a weeks-long hunger strike on Friday, was reportedly resuscitated the same day by medical staff at Larissa hospital ICU ward after suffering what…
Worries of a “third wave” of the Covid-19 pandemic were rife on Friday, as the number of intubated patients being treated in hospital ICUs for acute cases of coronavirus reached…
Figures released today by Greece’s statistics authority (EL.STAT) show the pandemic-generated recession in 2020 at 8.2 percent, with Q4 recording a shrinkage of 7.9 percent.
While economic downturn was disappointing,…
Greece has received the “green light” by the ESM to proceed with the early payment of loans extended to the country by the IMF.
Athens will pre-pay the loans set…
A three-justice first instance court in the south-central city of Lamia on Thursday dismissed a petition by a notorious terrorist to temporarily suspend his prison sentence due to a health…
Confirmed new single-day instances of Covid-19 in Greece again exceeded the 2,000-mark on Thursday, on the very day when stricter lockdown measures came into effect in regions with a high…
Greece’s tax bureau, the now renamed and autonomous Independent Authority for Public Revenues (AADE), this week unveiled an online service that would have been unheard of in the country only…
This week’s surge in the number of new coronavirus cases and the strain now faced by the country’s healthcare system generated a tightening of current pandemic-related restrictions, with visits to…
A strong earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale (5.9 by other measurements) was recorded on Wednesday at 12.16 p.m. (10.16 GMT) in central Greece, and felt throughout the wider…
New single-day confirmed instances of Covid-19 again jumped on Tuesday, rising above the 2,000-mark and causing worry amongst public health experts and the government that a continuation of the current…
Eight out of ten respondents in a latest opinion poll in Greece answered in the affirmative when asked if they’ll be vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus, with 18 percent saying…
A proposal by members of a general council of the Bank of Greece (BoG) on Monday proposed to shareholders that a statutory dividend to be paid to the Greek state…
The number of acute Covid-19 cases treated in hospital ICUs again exceed the 400-mark throughout Greece on Monday, an ominous development.
The number of new single-day confirmed instances reached 1,176,…
By T. Igoumenidi [email protected]
Non-binding offers have been received by 15 companies, mostly from outside Greece, for two of the six proposed high-rise towers at the 620-hectare Helleniko property development…
By V. Vegiri [email protected]
International tenders to sell a majority stake of the port authorities of Irakleio (Herakleio) and Volos, on Crete and in central mainland Greece, respectively, will reportedly…
The political “thermometer” shot up in still pandemic-gripped Greece over the weekend due to a weeks-long hunger strike by a notorious urban terrorist, who’s demanding that he be returned to…
Higher figures on Sunday, compared to the previous 24-hour period, in terms of related single-day Covid-19 fatalities and ICU cases were reported, 36 and 391, respectively.
New confirmed single-day instances…
The outgoing spokesman for the Mitsotakis government, Christos Tarantilis, tendered his resignation over the weekend, citing personal reasons, only to subsequently clarify that he wasn’t departing the Cabinet due to…
New confirmed single-day instances of Covid-19 infections in Greece reached 1,630 on Saturday, as the total since the advent of the pandemic neared 190,000 in the eastern Mediterranean country.
Of…
A still high number of new single-day confirmed Covid-19 infections in Greece, at 1,784 on Thursday, was reported over the past 24 hours, along with a spike in the number…
The prospect of easing ongoing pandemic-related restrictions in Greece appears in the coming period appears now faint, as Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday pointed to another surge in…
