Another light earthquake, this time measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale, was recorded at 16.46 (14.46 GMT) on Friday south of Crete, a day after a similar tremor shook the…
More than 30 people were detained and arrested on Friday evening after scattered rioting in and around the central Athens district of Exarchia, at the end of a protest march…
Greek leadership on Friday continued to assail an abrupt and contenious agreement between neighboring Turkey and the shaky interim Libyan government (GNA), with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis telling deputies in…
Two museums in Greece are in the running for the 2020 European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA), namely the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth and the Angelos Sikelianos Museum…
A welcome, albeit modest, relief for Greece’s mobile phone users came on Friday hours after a high-profile meeting between the prime minister and the heads of the three mobile phone…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday met with the heads of the three primary mobile phone operators in the country, as public discontent is rife in the eastern Mediterranean…
The Greek government this week announced a lump sum bonus of 2,000 euros for each child born to a an uninsured mother. Criteria attached to the allocation of the bonus…
The Greek foreign ministry on Friday announced the expulsion of Libyan ambassador accredited to the country, following his failure to deliver a controversial “memorandum of understanding” signed by Turkey and…
A light earthquake, measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale, shook Crete on Friday morning, particularly along the large Aegean island’s southern coast near the town of Sfakia. The quake was…
The months-old Mitsotakis government on Thursday announced specific criteria for allocation of its version of a “social dividend”, continuing the end-of-year one-off welfare payment begun by its leftist predecessor, and…
Turnover from short-term real estate leasing, mainly via the Airbnb and HomeAway platforms, reached 1.15 billion euros in Greece over the period between June 2018 and May 2019, according to…
Greece’s deputy foreign minister, Antonis Diamataris, on Thursday tendered his resignation days after it was revealed that he had exaggerated his university studies, and specifically that he was a holder…
Media outlets in Greece on Thursday morning have official Ankara handing over a memorandum of understanding with the shaky and mostly Tripoli-based Libyan interim government which Athens has heatedly charged…
Israel on Wednesday joined the State Department and the EU in criticizing a recent Turkish attempt to lay the groundwork for delineating exclusive economic zones between that country and Libya,…
A closely scrutinized meeting in London between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lasted for an hour and a half on Wednesday, after the conclusion…
By N. Stasinou [email protected]
The Greek state on Wednesday drained 812.5 million euros in a 26-week T-bill auction, with the uniform yield again negative, -0.02 percent, even lower than 0.00…
The fourth witness to appear before a preliminary fact-finding committee tasked with probing whether a long-drawn-out investigation by an anti-corruption prosecutor into allegations of Novartis kickbacks morphed into an alleged…
By S. Papapetros [email protected]
The initial conclusions from implementation of a 120-month installment plan to cover arrears to Greece’s tax bureau shows that the total outstanding debt included in the…
Greece’s largest social security fund, EFKA, reported increases in private sector wages in May 2019, compared to the corresponding month in 2018. Daily wages were also up, by 3.27 percent.…
A new platform support vessel, the Atlas I, was commissioned into the Hellenic Navy this week, during a ceremony at the Salamina anchorage in the greater Piraeus area.
The vessel,…
Greek coast guard authorities on Tuesday announced that 9,609 would-be asylum seekers and undocumented migrants landed on a handful of eastern Aegean isles in October 2019, in 253 separate landings.…
Scores by pupils in Greece continued to hover well below the average in the OECD’s PISA program, which evaluates global education in the developed world every three years, as results…
Α weak earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale was reported at just before noon (10.00 GMT) in a sea region off the southeast Aegean island of Karpathos.…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday revealed a scheduled meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the sidelines of the NATO summit in London this week, while again…
By N. Bellos [email protected]
Eurogroup member-states’ finance ministers are expected to issue the “green light” to the release of a 767-million-euro tranche to Greece, namely, the profits generated by Greek…
An Athens appeals court on Monday threw out a very prominent first instance lewdness with minors conviction against a former New Democracy (ND) deputy, accepting a relevant prosecutor’s recommendation to…
A three-justice Athens appellate court on Monday handed down mostly the maximum possible prison sentences to defendants convicted last month in the more than decade-old Siemens bribery and money laundering…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be received at the White House on Jan. 7 by US President Donald Trump, according to a statement by the US administration on Monday.…
The first tax relief for Greece’s battered middle classes after nearly 10 years of economic crisis and three consecutive bailouts appears on the horizon next month, with wage-earners and pensioners…
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on Monday morning said Athens considers that Turkey’s latest barrage of provocations and its singular view of international maritime law aim to promote a view…
