US ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt, on Wednesday pointed to the best era at present for Greek-US relations, saying the east Mediterranean country has been transformed from a source of…
The Council of State (CoS), Greece’s highest administrative court, this week upheld the abolition of the so-called “13th” and “14th” salaries for public servants and employees of state-controlled entities in…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with former ND prime minister Costas Karamanlis on Wednesday at the former’s office in Parliament.
According to media reports based only on leaks from…
An undetermined number of physicians and nursing staff at the main hospital on the eastern island of Samos were arrested on Wednesday on charges of supplying forged documents to third…
Greece’s new Parliament plenum was installed on Wednesday, as the 300 elected deputies were sworn-in, with a religious oath given by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece to all…
Another particularly intense storm front passed through Greece on Tuesday, this time affecting the Ionian islands and western mainland Greece, with thunderstorms and gale force winds reported.
A freak storm…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated on Tuesday afternoon that his new center-right majority government will respect fiscal targets agreed to by the previous leftist government with the country’s European…
An annual report compiled by the Greek Ombudsman’s office, an independent authority, reveals that compulsory deportations of foreign nationals to their home countries recorded a dramatic decrease in 2018, whereas…
Efforts to jump-start the delay-plagued Helleniko investment, billed as Greece’s biggest privatization and one of the biggest real estate development projects in Europe, got another boost on Tuesday, as a…
Strong demand by long-term institutional investors was recorded in the first hours after the opening of an offer book for the issuance of a new seven-year bond by the Greek…
Athens-based Salfo & Associates on Tuesday announced two new contracts regarding the design and supervision for the Legtaifiya metro station and three Monoprix supermarkets, exceeding 8,000 square meters, in Doha,…
New Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday received Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos at the Maximos Mansion government house, a courtesy visit by the latter that nevertheless…
A power blackout has affected certain areas in central Athens on Tuesday, as the Greek capital and much of the country are in the middle of the peak summer tourism…
Eurogroup working group (EWG) president Hans Vijlbrief reiterated to a mostly Greek audience on Tuesday that Greece’s primary budget surplus targets are linked with debt relief measures, with reductions in…
European Stability Mechanism (ESM) chief Klaus Regling on Tuesday said a reduction in Greece’s tax rates could be combined with an expanded tax base, a long-standing recommendation by the country’s…
By L. Karageorgos
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Piers II and III at the port of Piraeus, which are managed by Cosco subsidiary SEP, announced a new record for container traffic in the first…
Inspectors from Greece’s tax bureau have reportedly detected more than 20,000 properties in the country listed on the world’s foremost short-term lease platform, Airbnb, which however, have not been registered…
The 4th EU-Arab World Summit will take place in Athens at the end of October 2019, and specifically at Megaron Concert Hall in central Athens.
The event was established in…
Grand Resort Lagonissi, in coastal southeast Athens, has inaugurated its new Grand Hall conference center. The new conference center covers an area of nearly 5,000 square meters, with its main…
A 27-year-old local man on large island of Crete has been detained on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a 60-year-old American biologist, nearly two weeks ago.
The woman’s…
New Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke by phone on Monday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who congratulated him over his election victory last week, as well as with…
The body of a 50-year-old Belgian woman, on holiday on the large island of Crete, was recovered from the Kapsa gorge in eastern Lasithi prefecture on Monday, after the holiday-maker…
NBA shooting guard Jimmer Fredette was signed by Greek basketball powerhouse Panathinaikos BC on a two-year contract, the club announced on Monday.
The 30-year Fredette has five seasons of NBA…
A meeting between visiting ESM Managing Director Klaus Regling and new Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras was held in a “positive climate”, a press release by the same ministry stated…
The Greek finance ministry on Monday announced the issuance of a 7-year Greek state bond, with the target being to cover the annual goal for draining capital from markets by…
Another international tender for Public Power Corp.’s (PPC) lignite-fired units (three power stations and a final license for the operation of a fourth) was declared null and void on Monday,…
The new conservative Greek government on Monday announced immediate measures aimed to ameliorate the effects of the still ongoing migrant/refugee crisis affecting the SE European country, especially a prompt and…
A close-watched meeting will come on Monday afternoon in Athens between ESM Managing Director Klaus Regling and new Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras, this first time the head of the…
Former Greek finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos is reportedly included amongst the very high-profile candidate for a new managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) according to a report on…
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The Athens-Piraeus area has returned to the world’s top 10 shipping hubs, according to a recent study by Baltic Exchange.
The Greek capital bumped Korea’s Pusan…
