By S. Zisimos
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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
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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…
Orthodox monasteries in Greece are obliged to pay property taxes (ENFIA) for properties they own, excluding ones used as places of worship or for charitable purposes, a plenum of Council…
Athens was named as the “European Capital of Innovation 2018” on Tuesday during a special ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal, with the Greek capital picking up a one-million-euro prize as well.…
Greek lender Piraeus Bank is reportedly accelerating the process to sell-off another portfolio of “bad debt”, mostly loans extended to the shipping sector, by the end of the year.
The…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday unveiled his center-right party’s proposals for constitutional revision, a subject abruptly revisited by the leftist-rightist government last month, and with…
By N. Bellos and T. Tsiros
A European Commission report this week on the course of member-states’ economic performance is deemed as crucial in gauging the “fiscal space” that…
Greece is one of eight countries that Washington will exempt from oil sanctions it slapped this week on Iran, with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, in making the…
An attorney representing the family of a 35-year-old ethnic Greek man killed in a shootout with Albanian police last week on Monday told an Athens television station that the victim’s…
Greece’s first locally owned and managed hydroelectric unit was inaugurated on Monday in the Velventos district in northwestern Kozani prefecture.
The 1.9MW-unit is operated by a local Organization of Land…
A supreme court prosecutor has ordered a preliminary investigation stemming from a “fictitious defendants” lawsuit filed by former foreign minister Nikos Kotzias last week, over what the latter alleges is…
