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The high-profile “interventions” of a self-styled “anarchist collective” in Greece, which has gained a measure of notoriety over the recent period by barging into foreign embassies, multinationals’ offices and public…

Greece’s foreign ministry on Friday requested “valid clarifications” over Albanian authorities’ decision to declare 52 Greek citizens as “personae non gratae”, as fallout from the shootout death of an ethnic…

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will travel to Berlin on Friday to attend a summit of Germany’s SPD party, while on Saturday he will arrive in Paris in order to…

A direct link with the Athens Airport via metro line 3 will resume on Saturday, after media reports pointed to numerous complaints by commuters and tourists, who since the beginning…

Power supply gradually returned on Friday afternoon on the Dodecanese island of Rhodes, one of the best-known holiday destinations in the country. A malfunction at the Public Power Corp.’s (PPC)…

A collision between a Greek-owned tanker with a Norwegian navy frigate off the Scandinavian country’s coast has left seven people injured and the evacuation of 137 officers and seamen aboard…

By T. Igoumenidi [email protected] OTE telecoms group announced dividends and an own share buy-back scheme worth 260 million euros this week, during a briefing to present nine-month results. Greece’s biggest…

The nomination on Thursday of Manfred Weber as the European People’s Party (EPP) lead candidate for next May’s European election brought smiles to Greece’s center-right main opposition New Democracy (ND),…

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras stuck by his “October 2019” date for general elections next year, which would exhaust his four-year mandate to the very last day. Although his ruling…

By S. Zisimos [email protected] The Greek government is ready table a draft amendment in the coming period expanding the “golden visa” program for non-EU citizens, beyond the current obligation to…

Greece’s football federation (EPO) on Thursday announced that veteran Greek coach Angelos Anastasiadis will take over the reins of the national football team. Anastasiadis succeeds German manager Michael Skibbe, who…

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday “raised the ante” from this week’s announcement that Orthodox Church clergymen will be removed from the state’s salary rolls in order to make…

After “brain drain”, which relates to the mass emigration of some of the recession-battered country’s “best and brightest” for brighter economic “pastures”, Bloomberg on Thursday touched on the phenomenon of…

The minister of transports took the witness stand on Thursday to defend the president of Greece’s taxi owners association in a defamation lawsuit brought against him by an Athens-based company…

IMF European director Poul Thomsen on Thursday reiterated that the Fund continues to believe that pre-legislated reforms in Greece are necessary, and that greater “fiscal space” in annual Greek state…

Greek lender Eurobank (Eurobank Ergasias S.A.) on Thursday announced that it has concluded an agreement with another Greek systemic bank, Piraeus Bank, for the acquisition of the latter’s subsidiary in…

By N. Bellos [email protected] The European Commission slightly revised, downwards, its forecasts for Greek GDP growth over the 2018-2020 period, expecting a slightly higher rate for the current year but…

Greece’s foreign and public order ministries on Thursday called on Greek citizens crossing into neighboring Albania in order to attend the funeral of an ethnic Greek man, who was killed…

Aegean Marine Petroleum, one of the biggest independent marine fuel suppliers in the world, on Tuesday filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New York City federal court. The…

Public Power Corp. (PPC), the dominant electricity utility in Greece, this week announced that it will tack on a one-euro fee on all printed invoices mailed to consumers, as of…

By V. Vegiri [email protected] The government is reportedly ready to issue a new international tender for the sale of the military vehicle and bus manufacturer EL.VO, with Alternate Industry Minister…

The Hellenic Capital Market Commission on Tuesday reportedly decided a prospective top bidder in the privatization of Hellenic Petroleum (Hel.Pe) – which entails the transfer of 50.1 percent of the…

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday evening formally announced that his government will table a draft bill in Parliament returning some 820 million euros in retroactive deductions made to…

Greek Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis on Wednesday received Russian ambassador to Greece Andrey Maslov at his office, with preparations for the Greek prime minister’s official visit to Moscow and…

Τhe Greek Parliament’s Budget Office on Wednesday estimated that the consolidated general government’s primary balance over the first nine-month period of the year improved by 1.089 billion euros compared with…

The government continued its celebratory tone a day after an abrupt Tuesday evening announcement, jointly made by the Greek prime minister and Church of Greece primate, of a provisional agreement…

The influential prelate of the Church of Greece on Wednesday clarified that “an agreement is one thing, and an intent to agree is another”, less than a day after a…

Greece’s tourism minister on Wednesday referred to a new “historic record” for tourism arrivals to Greece recorded in 2018, saying the figure exceeded 33 million for the year and up…

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the head of the influential Autocephalous Church of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymos, on Tuesday announced a more-or-less unexpected agreement, which both men called “historic”, to…

By G. Kouros [email protected] Greece’s independent public revenues authority on Monday pointed to no less than 14 “indications”, as it said, pointing to money laundering, in a briefing of chambers…