Roughly 35 percent of the applications filed by businesses, self-employed professionals and farmers for inclusion in the out-of-court settlement of debts framework are approved, with the easy arithmetic meaning two-thirds…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party is given only a six-percentage-point lead over ruling SYRIZA in the latest opinion poll gauging voters’ preferences for the May 26 European parliament election,…
Greece’s most notorious convicted terrorist on Thursday announced a hunger strike, after being refused prison furlough for the second time in a row.
Dimitris Koufodinas, convicted in multiple homicides for…
Cruiseship arrivals to the central Greece port city of Volos continued this week, with hundreds of passengers disembarking in the city.
Among others, the “Crown Iris” docked in Volos on…
Greece’s light manufacturing sector continued to post encouraging performances, with April 2019 reaching growth levels not seen since 2000.
According to the IHS Markit survey, the increase in production and…
The Εuro Working Group on Thursday, as expected, has provided the “green light” to a Greek government request,, submitted to the ESM, to pay off a portion of loans…
By G. Kanoupakis [email protected]
Mazda this week announced a new dealership agreement with the Sygelidis group, as of next year.
The latter is the long-time importer of Citroen and Peugeot…
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is in Poland this week on an official visit, where he is expected to participate in the annual “March of the Living” at the site of the…
An initial evaluation for listed companies on the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) of significantly higher turnover in 2018 has been confirmed, with results also improved, although the state-run Public Power…
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Wednesday, May Day in Greece, attempted to navigate a political “tight rope” by acknowledging the need to reduce skyrocketing taxes in the country while…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis used his May Day message on Wednesday to unequivocally deny that he’s in favor of abolishing the so-called “13th” and “14” salaries…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras led the chorus of statements by political leaders on Wednesday, on the occasion of the May Day labor commemoration, which in Greece over recent decades…
Both of the finalists in this year’s Greek cup final, outgoing champions AEK Athens and 2018-19 champions PAOK Thessaloniki want the game played before fans, club officials stated this week.…
A light earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale was recorded at 20.02 (18.02 GMT) some 39 kilometers northwest of the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos.
According to the European…
Greece will only fully exit the bailout program and stand on its own two feet with robust economic recovery, Brussels-based Bruegel Institute senior economist Zsolt Darvas.
In an interview with…
An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale was recorded at 07.43 a.m. some 64 kilometers east-southeast of the Dodecanese island of Karpathos on Monday morning.
The location is nearly…
Seven suspects have been arrested in the southern Greek city of Kalamata in relation to the accidental death of a 53-year-old cameraman on Saturday evening, Holy Saturday before Easter Sunday,…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was highly laudatory of China’s ambitious “Belt & Road” initiative, speaking on Saturday in Beijing in front of China’s top leadership and a multitude of…
By D. Alexaki [email protected]
A burgeoning presence but limited profits are, in general terms, the main characteristics of the micro-brewing sector in Greece so far, although forecasts continue to be…
Five consortia have been approved for the next phase of an international tender to build the Greece – Bulgaria (IGB) gas inter-connector pipeline between the Greek and Bulgarian natural gas…
Greece has submitted a national candidacy for its re-election to the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) category A council for the upcoming 2019-2020 biennium.
Current category A members are PR China,…
A mammoth primary budget surplus – 4.4 percent of GDP for 2018 – combined with two elections next month, the first in Greece since September 2015, will, by all accounts,…
Greece and Italy, among Eurozone member-states, saw their external debt actually increase in 2018, in contrast with the rest of the euro area pack, which witnessed a reduction in their…
Ernst & Young auditors this week referred to substantial “concern” over the fate of Greece’s dominant electricity utility, the state-run and ATHEX-listed Public Power Corp. (PPC), after Tuesday’s annual results…
By E. Sakellari [email protected]
The ECB’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) is expected to request higher provisions by Greek systemic banks for mortgages, given the poor performance in the specific loan…
Two of the newest and state-of-the-art cruise ships in the world arrived in Piraeus this week, with the Cosco-managed Piraeus Port Authority’s leadership welcoming the officers and crews of the…
Center-right Greek political leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis outlined his leitmotif of lower taxes, more reforms and lower fiscal targets – with creditors’ acquiescence – to Bloomberg TV on Tuesday, detailing an…
The leadership of the Union of Cruise Ship Owners & Associated members (EEKFN) has urged regional and local officials on the iconic holiday island of Santorini (Thira) to design and…
US Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was received by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday at the Maximos Mansion in Athens, as the ranking member of the US Senate foreign…
The latest inflammatory statement by the alternate health minister, this time taking issue with a European Parliament candidate from rival New Democracy (ND) for using favorable provisions to acquire appointment…
