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Significantly increased housing prices in many urban areas in Greece is the main highlight in a Supply Price Index (SPI) operated by a property platform, based on data from classified…

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week expressed a hope that Greek expatriates living abroad will be able to vote in general elections back in Greece by 2023, qualifying the…

A press release by the US embassy in Athens on Thursday clarified that a meeting between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and US President Donald Trump had been scheduled on…

Thirty deputies from ruling New Democracy (ND) party on Thursday morning submitted a proposal to convene a special Parliamentary committee of inquiry in order to conduct a preliminary investigation into…

A closely watched meeting between new Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and powerful Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan took place on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly…

A severe low front that passed through Greece’s western mainland on Tuesday caused heavy rainfall while also generating more than 14,000 lightning strikes, with two fatalities reported as a result.…

A finalized audit of troubled Public Power Corp. (PPC), the dominant electricity provider in the country, in tandem with H1 2019 results have reportedly provided a fillip to the utility’s…

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with his counterpart from North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, for the first time as the premier on Tuesday, a closely watched and symbolic meeting on…

An industrial action declared in Greece on Tuesday mostly affected mass transits systems in the greater Athens, as well as ferry boat service between numerous Aegean islands and the mainland.…

By G. Fokianos [email protected] Greece’s defense ministry has reportedly given the “green light” for the upgrading of the primary assault weapon used by the country’s armed forces, the German-patented G3A3…

A five-year boy from Afghanistan was the latest fatality at the Moria ‘hotspot’ on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos (Mytilene), with initial reports stating that the victim was run…

A moderate earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale was recorded at 10.49 a.m. (08.59 GMT) in a sea region southeast of the large island of Crete. The quake was…

A 65-year-old Lebanese man arrested last week on the jet-setting island of Mykonos on an international warrant involving two 1980s terrorism incidents, including a plane hijacking and murder, has been…

By A. Tsimplakis [email protected] The Greek tourism sector received a major hit this week with the collapse of tour and travel giant Thomas Cook, the second biggest in Europe. Some…

Outgoing European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi on Monday told European Parliament deputies that Greece can be included in the revised QE stimulus program if its continues to post…

By F. Zois [email protected] State-run Italian rail operator Ferrovie dello Stato will have reportedly merged its Greek rail subsidiary, Trainosse, with the recently purchased Hellenic Company for Rolling Stock Maintenance…

The collapse multinational tour operator Thomas Cook has sent shock waves through Greece’s hotel and resort sector, with tourism professionals in Crete, for instance, saying that up to 80 percent…

An extraordinary mini Cabinet meeting will take place at the Maximos Mansion government house on Saturday to focus on the resurgent migrant/refugee crisis in the Aegean, the government announced on…

Greek central banker Yannis Stournaras this week again underlined the need to reduce the ambitious fiscal goals that Athens has committed to meeting until 2022, to the benefit of the…

By L. Karageorgos [email protected] Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe has announced an agreement with hotel operator Louis Group for the purchase, by the former, of five high-end hotel resorts in…

Ruling New Democracy (ND) continues what is apparently a “honeymoon period” after the July 7 election, with one of the first opinion polls of the new autumn season showing the…

The latest high-profile police operation in downtown Athens to end building “squats” targeted two buildings – facing each other – with all of the occupants evacuated identified as third country…

Greece’s up-until-recently defense minister on Thursday said there were “numerous instances” during his brief tenure that incidents that could have turned into another “Imia incident”, referring to a January 1996…

A Greek government legal framework to protect eligible households’ primary residence and subsidize mortgage payments has been approved by the European Commission, which judged that it was compatible with EU…

The relevant environment and energy ministry on Wednesday tabled four draft laws in Parliament to ratify a same-number of concessions for hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation in sea regions off Crete…

ATHEX-listed Lamda Development will completely take over the Helleniko concession, the Athens-based company announced on Wednesday, with its board of directors also saying an extraordinary general assembly of shareholders will…

By L. Karageorgos [email protected] A raging disagreement between Greek hoteliers and online booking platforms, such as the aptly named booking.com, continues unabated into the tail end of the summer holiday…

By T. Igoumenidi [email protected] Debt-laden Forthnet has confirmed the submission of a purchase offer by the Alter Ego Mass Media group, controlled by well-known shipowner and businessman Vangelis Marinakis, a…

Reuters this week reported that Canadian multination Eldorado Gold may consider negotiations with the Greek government over possibly paying higher royalty fees for its gold mining operations in Halkidiki prefecture.…

Costamare Inc.’s Neopanamax containership “Triton” has become the largest vessel to ever sail through the Panama Canal after its expansion in 2016. The 369-meter-long vessel, with a width of 51.2…