By A. Tsimplakis
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Members of a shipping ministry-affiliated committee are expected to vote on Tuesday over the Piraeus Port Authority’s (PPA) submitted master plan, a nearly half-billion-euro investment and…
Shipping minister Fotis Kouvelis on Monday promised coastal shippers that an up-to 5-percent surcharge to be imposed on companies awarded concessions for specific port services at 10 regional port authorities…
By S. Emmanuil [email protected]
Beleaguered retailer and accessory maker Folli Follie’s (FF) remaining real estate assets will be transferred to a new special purpose vehicle, according to reports, part of…
Bank of Greece (BoG) Gov. Yannis Stournaras on Tuesday called for judicial action after Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, a day earlier, leaked a phone conversation he had with Greece’s…
A controversial Greek minister whose been a “lightning rod” for opposition opprobrium and scathing media attacks over the recent period struck again – and with vengeance – on Monday evening,…
Two top Attica Bank executives – its deputy CEO and managing director – met urgently on Monday with Bank of Greece (BoG) regulators in the wake of fallout from the…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday called on Greece’s four systemic banks to include specific reward measures for conscientious borrowers in any new package aimed to…
By F. Zois [email protected]
Transformation of the recently privatized port of Thessaloniki into a final destination for goods and commuters, and not merely as a transit hub, along with unification…
The bodies of four people, missing after the car they were riding in was swept away in a flash flood early Sunday morning in central Crete, were recovered on Monday.…
Coca-Cola HBC this week announced the purchase of Serbia-based Bambi, billed as the biggest snack producer in the SE Europe country, for 260 million euros.
A company press release said…
Members of a now infamous “anarchist collective” late Monday morning recorded yet another “intervention” at a diplomatic mission in Athens, this time entering the Swiss embassy in the upscale Kolonaki…
The latest political furor to batter the poll-trailing Tsipras government has latched on to one of the Cabinet’s most controversial and outspoken member, Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, after a…
Tax arrears in Greece over the last four years increased by roughly 30 billion euros, despite the fact that the Independent Public Revenues Authority collected up to 20 billion euros…
The mostly unchecked activities of an increasingly violent group of self-styled anarchists, centred mostly in the greater Athens area, continued on Sunday, as a major retail store along the Greek…
By T. Igoumenidi [email protected]
Proclamation of an international tender for a casino gaming concession at the landmark Helleniko property development site in coastal southeast Athens, one of the biggest and…
A light earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale was recorded at 21.10 (19.10 GMT) in extreme southeastern Greece, according to a geodynamic institute in Athens. The quake’s epicenter was…
The iconic baker of Kos, an island in the eastern Aegean, Dionysis Arvanitakis, who became known throughout Europe for his daily and constant assistance to the hundreds of third country…
Decades-old efforts to revise a controversial article in the Greek constitution essentially preventing the establishment and operation of non-state universities in the eastern Mediterranean country again fell short this week,…
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Friday met with the CEOs of Greece’s four systemic banks, as well as the Hellenic Bank Association (HBA) president, a day after an agreement…
A mini reshuffle was announced on Friday in Athens by the Tsipras government’s spokesman, with up-until-now Alternate FM Giorgos Katrougalos promoted as the top minister of foreign affairs.
The development…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis emphasized growth, the creation of new job spots and protection of European borders as the most significant issues facing Greece and the…
The first political reactions over last evening’s announcement of an agreement between the Tsipras government and Greece’s systemic banks, aimed to establish a new legal framework protecting primary residences from…
Greece’s digital policy, telecoms and information minister, Nikos Pappas, among Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ closest associates, is set to become the first Greek cabinet member to visit the recently renamed…
A wide majority of Parliament MPs on Thursday approved of a finance ministry draft bill extending the concession for the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport of Athens.
Deputies from ruling SYRIZA…
An agreement was announced on Thursday evening between the Greek government and the four systemic banks in the country over a new legal framework to protect primary residences from creditors.…
The government’s proposal to revise a constitutional article (paragraph 1 of Article III) referring to religious neutrality received a bare majority during an initial Parliament vote on Thursday evening, meaning…
A total of 56 flu-related, most linked to the H1N1 strain, have been reported in Greece so far this season by the country’s disease prevention center (KEELPNO).
According to a…
A messy “political divorce” between the up-until-recently coalition partners in Greece continued to generate headlines in the country, with former defense minister Panos Kammenos – the head of the smaller…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis will arrive in Germany on Thursday to attend the Munich Security Conference 2019 in the Bavarian city, where he’ll give a brief…
By E. Sakellari [email protected]
Results of a Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP), sent to Greece’s systemic banks last week by the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), cited the level of…
