Two suspects were arrested in Thessaloniki on Monday in relation to a fatal traffic accident in the city a day earlier, when a 28-year-old Bulgarian man was hit by a…
Another cold front has generated heavy snowfall in many parts of mainland Greece on Monday, which is the religious and national holiday of the Epiphany in the eastern Mediterranean country.…
Μore than 46,000 third country nationals, would-be asylum seekers and migrants aiming to reach western and central Europe, landed or were transported to a handful of Greek isles in the…
The signing of a trilateral agreement in Athens on Thursday by the leaders of Greece, Israel and Cyprus, a mere day after the onset of 2020, for the construction of…
By L. Karageorgos [email protected]
Greek shipowners and shipping interests again posted a first-place showing in terms of second hand vessel purchases, with Chinese shipping companies in close second place for…
Greece’s gaming commission has issued a tender for the assessment of properties and surplus value related to the Parnitha casino which operates from atop Mt. Parnitha, overlooking the greater Athens…
Eight merchant seamen aboard the Greek-flagged tanker “Happy Land” were abducted by pirates on Tuesday morning as the vessel was anchored two nautical miles from teh port of Limboh, in…
A handful of stretches of national highways around Greece on Monday were alternately closed due to the season’s first heavy snowfall and frost, including the main north-south Athens-Thessaloniki, along with…
A light earthquake, measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale, was recorded at 23.33 (21.33 GMT) on Saturday in the greater Athens area, with an epicenter 39 northwest of the Greek…
The Greek state reported a primary budget surplus, as a percentage of GDP, of nearly seven billion euros over the Jan-Nov 2019 period, exceeding the fiscal target by more than…
European stock markets are concluded a banner year at the end of 2019, with the Stoxx 600 up by 22 percent during the year, and with the general index of…
A major cold front is expected to pass through Greece on Saturday, beginning in the north and edging south throughout the day, accompanied by freezing rain, snowfall and gale-force winds…
Almost 100 violations were recorded along the length of the eastern Aegean on Friday by 17 Turkish aircraft, a development that sources in Athens consider an spike in simmering tension…
A handful of privatizations are expected to either conclude or commence in early 2020 around Greece, with the main focus being on finally seeing the emblematic Helleniko real estate project…
Greece’s president of the republic on Friday signed a decree granting honorary Greek citizenship to Hollywood star Tom Hanks, bestowed for his charitable work and philhellenism.
Hanks and his…
By A. Tsimplakis [email protected]
The number of Greek merchant seamen employed on Greek-flagged vessels continues to fall, according to recent figures released by the country’s statistics authority, and based on…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis paid a Christmas Day visit to the remote southern Dodecanese island of Kasos on Wednesday, where he toured a local military camp and met with…
By A. Dokas [email protected]
The first few months of 2020 will be decisive for eight listed companies on the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE), with the entry of a “strategic investor”,…
Athens and a trio of French companies on Monday signed a framework for the upgrade of the Hellenic Air Force’s fleet of Mirage 2000/5 warplanes.
The development comes after a…
A major police operation took place on Monday morning at a migrant/refugee reception and identification center on the eastern Aegean island of Samos, with 78 third country nationals detained.
The…
The Cabinet on Monday was considering the final text for a draft law that allocate 2,000 euros for every birth to eligible households, with an income criteria reportedly set at…
Travel revenues continued an upward course in October 2019, according to figures released by the Bank of Greece on Monday, although the balance of travel services was slightly down, compared…
Greece ranks as a “surprise exception” for the Wall Street Journal in the global manufacturing sector, with the New York City-based newspaper praising the economic turnaround after a decade of…
By A. Tsimplakis [email protected]
Greece’s Public Gas Corp. (DEPA) will commence a tender process next month for the construction of the first bunker ships to supply ocean-going vessels with LNG,…
A health ministry draft bill to be tabled in the coming period will include a provision for the mandatory vaccination of children under the age of four, given a small…
The Greek government on Sunday unexpectedly announced that a trilateral agreement between Greece, Israel and Cyprus will be signed in Athens on Jan. 2 to push forth the EastMed natgas…
Roughly 100 self-styled anarchists attempted to re-occupy a recently evacuated “squat” in the northern Athens municipality of Maroussi, with riot police first blocking the attempt and then giving chase through…
Athens is overtly stepping up its diplomatic activity with partners and interested parties in the eastern Mediterranean in order to neutralize a controversial – and baseless, according to the Greek…
Greek central banker Yannis Stournaras told reporters on Friday that “the Rock of the Acropolis” essentially saved Greece during the acute economic crisis over the past decade, speaking while in…
The EastMed Act now awaits a signature by US President Donald Trump to become US federal law, with the bill including provision with a direct Greek and Cypriot interest.
Among…
