By T. Igoumenidi
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Another deadline associated with the delayed Helleniko property development project appears to have fallen by the wayside, with the first 300-million-euro installment of a would-be casino…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras paid a previously unannounced visit to the wildfire-ravaged Mati settlement in coastal eastern Attica prefecture on Tuesday, chairing a meeting that was bereft of television…
The mangled bodies of four people, possibly undocumented migrants, were located on Tuesday morning along railroad tracks by maintenance workers in northeast Greece, near an intersection in the Maroneia district.…
The Greek finance ministry’s affiliated services will have to collect tax revenues exceeding 10.2 billion euros over the last two months of the year in order to avoid any deviation…
By K. Deligiannis
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A new 200-million-euro subsidization program being prepared by the relevant environment and energy ministry will reportedly be unveiled next year, aiming to partially offset homeowners’ energy-saving…
By L. Karageorgos
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A trio of ferry boat transactions were reported this week in Greece’s coastal shipping sector, purchases by smaller operators.
Levante Ferries, a subsidiary of ATHEX-listed Newsphone…
Goldman Sachs weighed in on the Bank of Greece’s (BoG) recently announced plan to better tackle “bad debt” afflicting Greece’s four systemic banks, while nevertheless avoiding a forecast on how…
The Hellenic Replublic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), Greece’s privatization agency, on Monday announced that it has received a binding offer from an investment scheme comprised of several companies for the…
By Vassilis Kostoulas [email protected]
Increased concern that the Tsipras government’s “over-performance” in terms of meeting creditor-mandated annual primary budget surpluses is asphyxiating the “real economy”, and impeding a genuine recovery…
Police in the extreme northern prefecture of Florina are investigating the uprooting of 105 concrete border markers that delineate the frontier between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia…
Sunday evening’s surprise announcement by ATHEX-listed Eurobank that it is absorbing Grivalia properties – with the approval of the latter’s board of directors, as well – direclty aims to reduce…
By F. Zois
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A rail link extending to the northern Peloponnese coastal city of Aigio, from the current terminus at Kiato, further east, comes after an interruption of 10…
The Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE), Greece’s independent energy sector watchdog, has reportedly granted its preliminary approval to the National Natural Gas System Operator (DESFA) for the construction of a…
A pathologist employed in a public hospital in the northeastern Greek city of Komotini is accused of damaging the state healthcare organization (EOPYY) by more than 6.2 million euros by…
Eurobank’s board of directors on Sunday decided, during an extraordinary meeting, to approve the merger of Grivalia properties investment company with the systemic bank, in a bid to improve the…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) president Kyriakos Mitsotakis stepped up his emphasize on education issues over the week, as the center-right party he leads apparently considers ruling SYRIZA party as…
Corriere della Serra has Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras “advising” Italian politicians over the ongoing feud between Rome and Brussels over the Conte coalition government draft 2019 budget and even…
By L. Karageorgos
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Diana Shipping, one of the biggest Greek-owned publicly traded shipping companies, will proceed with a share buy-back scheme until Dec. 20, a development that comes after…
Main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday reiterated, from Parliament’s podium, that his center-right New Democracy (ND) party will completely eliminate the asylum regime currently bestowed on Greek university campuses,…
An appeals court ruling handing down a 10-year prison term – without a suspended sentence option – against a municipal janitor convicted of forging a primary school diploma 20 years…
By D. Alexaki
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Lidl Hellas, the German supermarket chain’s subsidiary in Greece, this week announced an investment program for its operations in the country of between 100 to 120…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party sports a 9.5-percentage point lead over ruling SYRIZA in the latest monthly opinion poll by the Pulse firm, although dropping 1.5 percentage points from…
The Bank of Greece (BoG) on Thursday unveiled its long-expected proposal to better manage “bad debt” weighing heavily on Greece’s thrice recapitalized banking sector, formally proposing the establishment of a…
The autumn opinion poll by the Public Issue firm gives main opposition New Democracy (ND) party a 16.5 percentage-point lead over ruling SYRIZA, one of the biggest leads ever recorded…
The European Commission’s first “enhanced surveillance” report this week regarding thrice-bailed out Greece calls on the government to implement 16 creditor-mandated reforms and actions by the end of the year. …
Six out of nine defendants indicted in the beating death of US tourist Bakari Henderson on the holiday island of Zakynthos in July 2017 were found guilty on Thursday by…
Another light earthquake was recorded early Thursday afternoon in a sea region off the Ionian island of Zakynthos, as the specific area has witnessed increased seismic activity over the recent…
Revenues from privatizations in Greece for 2019 are forecast to reach 1.531 billion euros, as listed in the draft budget submitted to Parliament by the government on Wednesday.
In a…
By S. Emmanuil [email protected]
Members of the Koutsolioutsos family will also reportedly resign from the board of the Hellenic Duty Free Shops SA, following the latest developments in beleaguered Folli…
The OECD foresees slightly slower growth rates for the Greek economy over the coming two-year period, compared with the government’s forecasts, while expressing optimism over fiscal targets and a recovering…
