The Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) on Wednesday announced an increase in both turnover and profits for 2019, with the company recommending a hefty dividend, higher by 27 percent from the…
Greece may have returned to the “good graces” of the world’s ratings agencies – with Fitch being the latest to upgrade the country’s credit rating – yet this week’s forecast…
The Hellenic Navy this week announced a series of exercises in various parts of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, with surface vessels engaged in firing exercises off the eastern coast…
The second of two “protected” witnesses that previously implicated 10 past prime ministers, ministers and even Greece’s central banker as recipients of kickbacks by Novartis’ Greek subsidiary on Wednesday…
By N. Stasinou [email protected]
A eyebrow-raising forecast of up to one billion euros is expected to be invested in 2020 by Chinese property investors in Greece, as part of the…
The conservative government reacted angrily to an occupation, by union members, of a train depot in the greater Athens area on Tuesday morning, part of efforts to prevent the scheduled…
By A. Tsimplakis [email protected]
A burgeoning consortium that reportedly includes Greece-based Goldair, along with the US transport multinational SSA Marine and the Black Summit Financial Group investment fund, is expected…
The French embassy in Athens on Thursday hosted an event aimed at promoting and shepherding a possible future acquisition, by the Hellenic Navy, of two state-of-the-art FTI-type warships. FTI stands…
Controversial former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who convincingly re-emerged on Greece’s political scene after the July 2019 elections as the leader of a small Parliament-represented party, on Friday promised…
Bloomberg on Thursday heralded what it called the end of the euro zone crisis, coming on the heels of news that the spread between the Greek 10-year bond and German…
One Athens district has made it into the Guardian’s “Top 10” best neighborhoods in Euro is the municipality of Nea Smyrni, coming in 10th.
According to the well-known UK daily,…
A relevant circular by the deputy finance minister requests data and figures from ministries and all general government-affiliated entities in order to compose an updated Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy Framework for…
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will travel to Algeria on Thursday, where he will be received by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, before holding talks with his counterpart, Sabri Boukadoum.
Besides…
A draft bill that includes a last-ditch rescue scheme for debt-laden and loss-making Larco, a large state-run ferro-nickel producer, was ratified by a majority of deputies in Greece’s Parliament on…
Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos met with his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar on Wednesday evening in Brussels, on the sidelines of a NATO ministers’ summit in the Belgian capital.
According…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday took to Twitter to comment on the fact that the yield for Greece’s 10-year bonds had fallen below the psychological barrier of 1…
The government on Monday announced yet another, albeit modest, step forward towards finally commencing construction at the Helleniko site in coastal southeast Athens, which comprises the most iconic privatization in…
The latest government-opposition tussle in Greece this week revolves around yet another “last ditch” plan to salvage, via liquidation, the debt-laden and loss-making Larco metallurgical unit in south-central Greece, which…
The US consul general in Thessaloniki over the weekend referred to the increasingly touchy issue of “5G” technology, warning of a lack of trustworthiness by certain multinationals, a thinly veiled…
The Greek government on Monday abruptly announced that it will requisition land on five eastern Aegean islands to create or expand closed temporary shelters, “hotspots”, for asylum seekers and irregular…
Hard Rock International on Monday announced that it has filed an appeal over a recently concluded tender decision for an integrated resort casino concession at the Helleniko site, while stressing…
The CEO of state-run Public Power Corp. (PPC), the dominant electricity provider in the country, over the weekend offered assurances that the utility will not abandon the western Macedonia province…
Thirty ancient Greek tablets featuring curses in the form of invocations to the gods of the underworld, dated some 2,500 years ago, were recently discovered at the bottom of a…
By A. Tsimplakis [email protected]
Chinese multinational Cosco’s new online platform for the Piraeus Port Authority (PPA), the Hellenic Port Community System (HPCS), is generated its first waves in Greece’s biggest…
Polar-like temperatures were recorded in northwest Greece overnight, where the “mercury” fell to minus 13.7C at the Neo Kafkaso site in Florina prefecture, which borders with North Macedonia and Albania.…
ATHEX-listed Alpha Bank on Thursday successfully placed a 500-million-euro, Tier 2 bond with 10-year maturity callable after five years at a yield of 4.25 percent, with the listing on the…
By Dimitris Michopoulos, Managing Director at Weber Shandwick
Heading towards 2030, the communication of brands and organisations will be tied closer and more directly to their reputation. And this reputation,…
The first woman to serve as Greece’s ambassador to the United States was greeted with laudatory language by an upbeat Donald Trump on Thursday, while presenting her accreditations, with the…
Well-known Greek talk radio presenter Aris Portosalte on Thursday posted photographs on his personal Twitter account showing spray-painted slurs against him and his media outlet, Athens-based Skai, scrawled on his…
A GPS tracker hidden in bell has led to four arrests in a remote region of the island of Crete on sheep rustling charges, all related to an incident dating…
