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…
By S. Papapetrou
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At least three circulars are expected to be issued by the relevant labor and social insurances ministry next week in order to cut social security contributions…
A two-stage process for constitutional revision served as the latest political “battleground” between the Tsipras government and the opposition this week, especially with main opposition New Democracy (ND), with all…
Handelsblatt on Wednesday referred to delays in implementing already agreed-to reforms in Greece by the poll-trailing Tsipras government, as well as what it calls pressure exerted on the Greek prime…
Michalis Sakellis was re-elected this week as the president of the Greek Shipowners Association For Passenger Ships (SEEN), following a general assembly last week held to elect a new board…
New Greek Defense Minister Evangelos Apostolakis was meeting with his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar at roughly noon (local time) in Brussels, on the sidelines of a NATO ministerial summit in…
A former education minister and Greece’s one-time EU Commissioner, Anna Diamantopoulou, on Wednesday added her voice to political criticism in the country over the leftist Tsipras government opposition to any…
By V. Vegiri
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Greece’s economy and development ministry, according to sources that spoke to “N”, is expected to unveil its position over the future of the state-run, and debt-laden,…
The government in Skopje is reportedly ready to send an official letter to the UN, its member-states and international organizations, of which it is a member, announcing the change of…
The government on Tuesday presented a 10-page plan to implement a recent draft agreement between the state and the Church of Greece, ostensibly aimed at distancing the two side, especially…
Alpha Bank on Tuesday announces that Schroders, following a relevant notification this week, now holds indirectly voting rights that correspond to an equal amount of common, registered, voting, dematerialised shares…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday reiterated his personal and his center-right party’s position an overhaul of Article 16 of Greece’s constitution, speaking on the day…
Reducing NPLs held by Greece’s systemic banks, accelerating privatizations and fully covering the state’s arrears to the private sector – all standing demands by institutional creditors during the memorandum era…
The Tsipras government and Greece’s four systemic banks have reportedly reached at least one major compromise on the pressing issue of renewing legal protection of primary residences from creditors, with…
Russia’s ambassador to Athens this week referred to Greek interest, as he said, in a possible extension of the Turkish Stream natgas pipeline to the country.
Ambassador Andrey Maslov was…
The head of Greece’s state-run Public Power Corp. (PPC), the dominant electricity provider in the country, on Monday did not rule out rate hikes.
PPC president and CEO Manolis Panagiotakis…
A government spokesman in Athens on Monday attempted to downplay resurgent speculation and concerns over “bad debt” burdening Greece’s systemic banks, held mainly in the form of non-performing loans (NPLs),…
By F. Zois [email protected]
Greece’s “super fund”, officially called the Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations S.A. (HCAP), convened a meeting on Friday to iron-out cooperation with several major state-run…
By T. Igoumenidi [email protected]
A significant spike in rent prices, by as much as 50 percent, were recorded in specific districts in Greece where the so-called “Airbnb phenomenon” is the…
The pressing issue of “bad debt” burdening Greece’s four systemic banks – a major concern of European creditors before and after the last bailout ended in August 2018 – has…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party is given a 5.5-percentage point lead over ruling SYRIZA in the latest mainstream opinion poll to be published over the weekend.
Although showing roughly…
The major impact of the maritime shipping sector in Greece’s recovering economy was again confirmed this week, with figures compiled by the shipping and island policy ministry showing that total…
A slim but solid majority of Greek MPs, 153 out of a total of 300 in Parliament, on Friday evening approved of a protocol for the accession of the former…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday, speaking from Parliament’s podium, reiterated that MPs of his center-right party will vote against the NATO membership of the former…
US ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt on Friday met at his official residence in Athens with Kostas Dimtsas, the new civil governor of the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos,…
The relevant shipping and island policy ministry this week announced an international tender for the purchase of 23 new patrol boats, a total contract worth nearly 49 million euros.
The…
State-run Public Power Corp.’s (PPC) board of directors on Friday unanimously voted to declare an ongoing tender of a handful of lignite-fired power units as null and void, citing the…
Nick Broomfield’s documentary “Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love,” which recounts the now famous love story between late Canadian poet and musical legend Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse, Marianne…
