European Commission mission chief for Greece Declan Costello on Wednesday repeated the EU executive’s message of staying on the “reform path”, speaking in Athens at a conference organized by the…
By L. Karageorgos
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The number of Greek-controlled shipping companies again dropped, slightly, in 2018, continuing a negative trend for a seventh straight year, with the number standing at 588…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis emphasized his pro-market and pro-reform credentials on Tuesday by touring a site that, on paper at least, is one of the biggest…
By A. Tsimplakis [email protected]
Piraeus’ container port is in the “top 5” in Europe based on figures for the first two months of the year, with piers II and III…
State spending in Greece, as a percentage of GDP, is the sixth highest amongst European Union countries, according to figures released on Tuesday by Eurostat.
In determining where the spending…
By T. Tsiros [email protected]
Beyond the still unfinished legal framework for protection of primary residences in Greece from creditors, the country’s Eurozone partners and other European institutions will also consider…
Greece’s independent public assets authority (AADE) on Monday issued an urgent circular towards all state-affiliated entities in the country, detailing customs and other financial procedures involving trade and transactions with…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday evening again pledged that he will not declare snap elections in the country coinciding with May’s European Parliament elections.
“Even though many have…
By F. Zois
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Four suitors have expressed an interest in the Thriasio II project, a 1.45-sq-kilometer rail-linked logistics and transit hub in the same-name industrial district due west of…
The federation representing bank employees in Greece (OTOE) this week announced that it has reached a collective bargaining agreement with bank managements for the 2019-2021 period, with the highlights being,…
By T. Tsiros [email protected]
A large cache of online applications by would-be beneficiaries of a rent subsidy – one of a handful of welfare spending measures being doled out by…
The Kremlin on Monday finally recognized the newly christened Republic of North Macedonia under its new constitutional name, despite previous reservations expressed over the legality, as it claimed, of a…
An odd but tragic accident was reported over the weekend with a 67-year-old fisherman dying under still undetermined circumstances moments after casting his nets along a rocky shoreline off the…
Most geography-savvy people in the world, as well as ancient mythology buffs, know that Mt. Olympus is the highest peak in Greece, but how many – including Greeks – know…
Yet another Greek Superleague derby was interrupted by hooligan violence and finally suspended, with the Panathinaikos Athens-Olympiacos Piraeus match stopped in the 69th minute on Sunday at the Athens Olympic…
A 4.5 on the Richter scale earthquake shook the Ionian island of Zakynthos just before 14.00 (12.00 GMT) on Sunday.
According to the Geodynamic Institute of Athens, the quake’s epicenter…
Two emblematic investments in the so-called “Athens Riviera”, the coastline extending roughly from Neo Faliro southeast all the way to renowned Cape Sounion, will have a significant impact on the…
Bank of Greece (BoG) Gov. Yannis Stournaras stayed “on message” on Friday, saying the country’s economic recovery depends on continued – and agreed to – reforms, privatizations, a significant reduction…
A total of six consortia and companies, one more than the last international tender, expressed an interest for the purchase of two Public Power Corp. (PPC) lignite-fired power stations, Meliti…
Greece’s privatization agency, the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), on Friday unsealed binding offers for the Alimos marina in coastal southeast Athens.
The three binding offers on the table…
Athens immediately responded on Friday to inflammatory statements a day earlier by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who, among others, said “we (Turkish military) scramble aircraft in the Aegean, as…
European creditors, especially the European Central Bank (ECB), have reportedly tabled four main objections to the proposed framework presented by the Greek government for protection of primary residences in the…
Bolivian President Evo Morales began a two-day official visit to Athens on Thursday, one of his rare exits from the land-locked South American country.
Morales addressed a crowd composed mostly…
Entrance fees at 24 archaeological sites, museums and monuments around the country will be increased in 2020, while the relevant culture ministry also announced the abolition of the 1- and…
Greece’s association of industrialists has addressed a letter to the relevant finance minister requesting the urgent composition and signing of a double tax avoidance agreement with the neighboring Republic of…
A bundle of proposals for constitutional revision, tabled by the leftist Tsipras government, passed with a simple majority of deputies in Parliament on Thursday, meaning that in order to make…
By T. Igoumenidi [email protected]
An integrated casino resort (IRC) at the Helleniko site – one of the biggest real estate development projects in Europe – will cover 634,000 square meters,…
European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Managing Director Klaus Regling told Greek media on Wednesday that Athens is committed to posting a primary budget surplus of 3.5 percent (of annual GDP) until…
The IMF’s country report on Greece this week confirms that the Tsipras government intends to pay off as much as 60 percent of its debts to the Fund before maturity…
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos was revealing on Wednesday in regards to the first six months of the Tsipras government in 2015, a period punctuated towards its end by failed…
