Greece-based carrier Aegean officially inducted its first Α321neo passenger aircraft in its fleet on Thursday, days after the plane landed at the airline’s base at the Athens International Airport.
The…
The first political “fallout” from Wednesday’s landmark court decision characterizing the extreme-right Golden Dawn party as a criminal organization came from an unlikely source a day later, with a former…
A three-justice appellate level court adjourned until Friday morning in the sentencing phase of the explosive Golden Dawn trial on Thursday, a day after most of the defendants were found…
The death toll in Greece from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic rose by six on Thursday, while the number of single-day confirmed new infections reached 436.
The latest figures brought the…
Initial media reports in Athens on Wednesday give a guilty verdict for the main defendant in the closely watched Golden Dawn trial on a homicide charge, with another 15 out…
A long-awaited conclusion in the explosive Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi) trial is expected on Wednesday, with a three-justice appeals court ready to hand down verdicts against 68 defendants. The most…
Another 399 new confirmed instances of coronavirus were reported in Greece on Tuesday, compared to the previous day, with the death toll also rising by three.
Total cases now exceed…
Greece’s high-profile minister of state and digital governance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, on Tuesday detailed a very significant – by Greek standards – Microsoft investment in the country, a day after the…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday morning received visiting NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, who arrived in the Greek capital from Ankara, all in the wake of nearly a…
Greece’s draft 2020 budget includes continued support for households and businesses in the face of repercussions from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, in tandem with best exploiting European recovery funds.
One…
Public health authorities on Sunday announced another 229 confirmed new cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number in Greece to nearly 19,900.
Eight-two people remained on life support in hospital…
Greek authorities have identified four NGOs based on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos as actively engaged in migrant trafficking, by colluding with people smugglers operating from the opposite Turkish…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be joined by Microsoft President and chief legal officer Brad Smith on Monday at the Acropolis Museum for a presentation of the tech giant’s…
“We are fully satisfied with the results of the EU summit,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed on Friday, in a press conference after the conclusion of an extraordinary European…
Another 460 new confirmed coronavirus infections were reported on Friday in Greece, of which 142 are related to previously recorded clusters and another 26 detected at border entry points.
The…
The IMF on Friday released its forecast for the Greek economy during the current, and coronavirus-battered year, predicting a contraction by 9.5 percent, before recovering in the medium term.
The…
Another 411 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were reported on Thursday from the previous day, with the death toll rising by two.
Eighty-nine people infected with coronavirus are on life support…
Greece and Cyprus are reportedly opposed to a set of draft conclusion after the first day of an EU Council summit, with reports stating that both countries want changes over…
Greece’s Public Debt Management Agency drained 487.5 million euros from the markets on Wednesday via a latest auction of 26-week T-bills at a uniform yield of -0.10 percent – an…
Vodafone, one of the trio of mobile phone providers in Greece, suffered a network breakdown on Wednesday afternoon, which also affected its land-line service in several parts of the country.…
The Bank of Greece’s (BoG) proposal for tackling Greek systemic banks’ NPLs, now calculated at billion euros, will reportedly include the long-expected creation of a “bad bank”, based on a…
A new state-of-the-art lighting system illuminating the ancient marble structures on the Acropolis in central Athens, including the quintessence of Classical antiquity, the Parthenon temple, was unveiled on Wednesday evening.…
The average primary monthly pension in Greece, as of September 2020, reaches 726.70 euros, while the monthly supplementary pension – for eligible beneficiaries – is 194.37 euros, according to figures…
US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo completed a closely watched two-day visit to Greece on Tuesday, replete with very high-proflle talks with Greek leadership and tours of military installations on…
A sharp rise in the number of confirmed Covid-19 infections was reported in Greece on Tuesday, over the previous 24-hour period, with the number reaching 416. Another five related fatalities…
The first of three tests on 12 crew-members on a cruise ship that initially tested positive for Covid-19 have come back negative, with reports in Athens claiming that all 12…
Thirty-three members of NGOs operating on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos – the epicenter of a refugee/irregular migrant crisis since 2015 – along with three foreign nationals, have reportedly…
Athens-based systemic lender Alpha Bank this week announced the commencement of a carve-out procedure for transferring NPEs to the firm Cepal, part of a strategic plan announced last November aimed…
Twelve instances of coronavirus infection have been reported aboard a cruise ship carrying more than 1,000 passengers and crewmembers on a cruise in the central Aegean, with the cases involving…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday referred to irregular migration, climate change, the ongoing Covid-19 and the resurgence tension in Greece’s relations with Turkey in a pre-recorded video address…