Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis referred to a change in Athens’ policy concerning the granting of asylum status, an issue that directly involves the thousands of third country nationals that…
Annual travel and tourism revenues for Greece are reportedly headed for a new record, according to figures for the first half of the year, released this week by the Bank…
Ioannis Lianos, a professor of global competition law and public policy at the University College London, will be proposed by the Mitsotakis government for the position of president of Greece’s…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis echoed immediate predecessors’ more optimistic statements in his interview to French mass daily “Le Figaro”, published hours before his meeting in Paris with French President…
Another obstacle lying before the iconic Helleniko privatization went by the wayside on Wednesday, as a new composition of members of the influential Central Archaeological Council (KAS) unanimously approved…
The bodies of three men, two Russian passengers and the Greek pilot, of a downed helicopter were recovered on Tuesday in the narrow strait separating the isle of Poros and…
Greece’s new health minister on Tuesday announced, via a circular disseminated to all public hospitals and healthcare facilities, that an electronic system will be implemented to record all healthcare-related expenses…
More than 5,600 third country nationals illegally arrived on a handful of eastern Aegean islands in July, according to official figures released this week in Athens, exacerbating the already poor…
The central government reported a higher primary budget surplus, as a percentage of GDP, for the first seven months of 2019, despite a drop in revenues during the same period.…
The coast guard on Monday evening rescued seven Israeli tourists sailing on a yacht that close to the southeastern harbor town of Ermioni.
Ιn an unrelated development, a luxury cruiser…
The prospect of a new cruise ship terminal and an adjacent upscale shopping mall within the Cosco-managed Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) dominated a meeting on Monday between Development and Investments…
Bitsakos S.A. has reportedly agreed to a total purchase price of roughly 51 million euros for the Nireus and Selonda fish farming producers, according to creditors banks, who informed Nireus’…
A new international tender is reportedly being prepared by the relevant transports and infrastructure ministry – i.e. the central government – for the mass transit bus systems of greater Athens…
The US State Department has again issued warnings to Mediterranean countries not to allow the docking of the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya 1, the former “Grace 1”, amid the ongoing…
By G. Sakkas [email protected]
Total purchases of materials and services by state-run hospital in the national healthcare system (ESY) exceeded two billion euros, a figure substantially higher than similar expenditures…
A wildfire erupted on Monday on the Cyclades island capital of Syros, and specifically at the Mega Yialos site, with a medium-sized contingent of fire-fighters and vehicles responding. Two fire-fighting…
The French presidency on Monday confirmed that French President Emmanuel Macron will receive Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the Palais de l’Élysée on Thursday for a discussion on all…
The popular central Aegean island of Skiathos suffered a total power blackout on Friday evening, all amid the peak summer season in the country.
The power outage occurred at 9:40…
By A. Tsimplakis
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Greek and Chinese shipping interests continued to lead the global pack in terms of new vessel orders, with their total in July 2019 comprising 12 percent…
A light earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale was recorded at 5:22 a.m. (03.22 GMT) near the Ionian island of Zakynthos. The quake was pinpointed at 67 kilometers from…
A major ecological catastrophe was visible on the mountainous and semi-mountainous surface of north-central Evia island on Wednesday morning in the wake of almost two days of a burning wildfire…
A major wildfire continued to burn over a wide area in central Evia island on Tuesday afternoon, with the smoke from the blaze blanketing the skies as far away as…
Two Greek beaches are included in the “Top 50” issued by the Big 7 Travel website, namely, Elafonissos on Crete, where rare and protected “pink sands” are found, and jet-setting…
Another spate of wildfires erupted in the early morning hours around Greece after midnight on Tuesday, with the most ominous blaze in north-central Evia island, which straddles the eastern coastal…
A total of 97 archaeological sites, monuments and museums will be open across Greece on Thursday evening, coinciding with the August full moon in the east Mediterranean country, an annual…
Lack of ferry boat service from the northeast Greece mainland to the island of Samothrace over the past few days was reportedly resolved on Monday, with the relevant shipping ministry…
A total of 67 wildfires and outdoor blazes were reported over the previous 24-hour period around Greece, according to the national fire brigade, with most of the incidents dealt with…
At least four non-binding offers – by Bain Capital, Apollo, Fortress and LoneStar – were reportedly submitted last Monday for Alpha Bank’s Neptune portfolio of NPLs, with a mixed valued…
NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and his family received a VIP welcome on Monday at the US consulate in Athens, with the US ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt, personally greeting the…
The relevant development and investments minister on Monday signed, as widely expected, a series of ministerial acts that essentially terminate the term of Competition Committee president Vassiliki Thanou, the same…
