A up-until-recently “protected” witness in an ongoing investigation into past practices by Novartis’ Greek subsidiary this week charged that he was pressured to name politicians as recipients of bribes, the…
Police on the Ionian island of Corfu have arrested the father of a 29-year-old woman whose body was discovered buried in a garden outside the former’s semi-rural residence this week.…
Greece’s general counsul to Venezuela was found dead in a Caracas hotel room this week, according to the local daily “El Nacional”.
The first reports said the death of 55-year-old…
Another cold front, accompanied by freezing rain and snowfall in much of Greece’s mountainous and semi-mountainous regions, is forecast for this week, beginning on Thursday.
Snowfall is expected in parts…
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu continued official Ankara’s saber-rattling into the new year this week, warning that an “accident” could have in the Aegean due to inflammatory statements by the…
The discovery of the remains of ancient Tenea, near the present-day village of Chiliomodi, in southern Corinth prefecture, is one of 2018’s top 15 archaeological finds, according to the Internet…
Two inmates escaped from the greater Athens area’s Korydallos penitentiary overnight on Wednesday. The two fugitives, identified as Albanian nationals and brothers, were serving multiple theft and robbery convictions.
The…
By S. Emmanuil [email protected]
Australia and Luxembourg offer the highest minimum hourly wages, worldwide, according to the German think tank Wirtschafts-und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut (WSI), with Greece, however, dropping behind the…
A former Greek health ministry adviser was prevented from leaving the country on Sunday evening after anti-corruption prosecutors cited evidence of his involvement in possible bribe-taking, the latest twist in…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday again dismissed any possibility of holding snap elections next year, reiterating that he intends to stay in office to the very last day,…
A photograph of the iconic Acropolis in central Athens posted by National Geographic on its Instragram account has already received more than 1.2 million “likes”.
The image shows the eponymous…
Migrant traffickers attempting to take advantage of the New Year’s holidays were thwarted by police in the northern city of Thesslaoniki in the early morning hours of Monday, with three…
The finance ministry on Monday, the last day of 2018, announced an extension of the deadline for vehicle owners in Greece to pay annual road fees. The deadline was moved…
Former prime minister Costas Simitis, under whose leadership Greece joined the Eurozone in 2002, raised eyebrows over the last weekend of the year by predicting that the thrice bailed-out country…
A strange heist was reported in western Greece overnight, with local media reporting that three or four suspects broke into a residence in a village outside ancient Olympia and took,…
Most Greeks begin their day with a glance at their smartphones, according to an end-of-year survey by Athens-based Kapa Research on the top trends for 2018 in the country.
The…
Handelsblatt credits a booming tourism sector as helping recession-battered Greece recover, while also pointing to a return of real estate buyers in holiday areas.
In an extensive report from the…
A spokesman for the small right-wing Independent Greeks (AN.EL) party on Friday reiterated that its MPs will leave the current coalition with leftist SYRIZA when the provisional Prespa agreement comes…
A convicted Greek urban terrorist serving 11 life sentences was granted his fifth furlough from prison on Thursday, this time for six straight days.
The decision, by members of a…
The creditor-mandated primary budget surplus, as a percentage of GDP, for the Jan-Nov 2018 far exceeded the target, reaching 7.626 billion euros on the back of an increase in revenues…
The Bank of Greece’s (BoG) interim report on monetary policy (2018) this week again insisted on agreed-to reforms as well as a pro-business, pro-market policies to boost the recovering Greek…
An explosive device went off on Thursday morning outside a well-known cathedral in the upscale Kolonaki district of central Athens, wounding a nearby police sentry, and, according to other reports,…
Two “holiday” violations by Turkish warplanes were recorded on Tuesday, Christmas Day in Greece, with two pairs of Turkish F-16s entering the Athens FIR in the afternoon without a prior…
The positive effects of the so-called “Airbnb effect” on Greece’s recovering real estate sector came under the Bank of Greece’s (BoG) scrutiny, with the effects listed in the central bank’s…
Dipping temperatures, drizzle and even snow in northern Greece and the country’s mountainous regions are on the weather forecast for Tuesday, Christmas Day.
Snowfall is expected to continue southward and…
By S. Zisimos
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New business listings overtook closings in 2018, according to data announced by the development and economy ministry’s General Commercial Registry this week.
Up until Dec. 21,…
Sixty-three foreign nationals were arrested in the early morning hours of Saturday on charges of illegally trying to exit the country, after a crowded sailboat carrying the group was located…
By E. Sakellari [email protected]
Implementation of new International Financial Reporting Standards for European banks’ regulatory capital will significantly affect the latter’s balance sheets, a report by the European Banking Authority…
The relevant labor and social insurances minister confirmed this week that a new framework to settle arrears to social security funds will be implemented in the first quarter of 2019,…
Plans for renewing and improving the rail connection between Greece and Serbia, via the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM), was cited by both visiting Greek PM Alexis Tsipras and…
