Social security spending in Greece for the first eight months of 2018 reached 16.918 billion euros, down from 17.059 billion euros during the corresponding period of 2017, down by 0.82…
The first post-bailout tax breaks appeared in the 2019 draft budget, which was tabled in Parliament on Monday, mostly based on the modest pledges made by Greek Prime Minister Alexis…
More deaths were recorded in Greece in 2017 as opposed to births, according to the Greek statistics authority this week, exacerbating a decades-old demographic problem in the country.
Last year,…
A top administrative review body, Greece’s Court of Audit has approved an agreement to sell-off a state-run rolling stock maintenance company to Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane-controlled rail operator Trainose SA.…
By E. Sakellari [email protected]
IMF auditors are expected back in Athens at the end of this month, with the focus now directly on the financial state of Greece’s thrice recapitalized…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) president Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday toured a migrant/refugee “hotspot” on the eastern Aegean island of Samos, where he again sharply criticized the leftist-rightist government over…
CNBC on Monday warned of “another fight” between the current Greek coalition government with its creditors and markets, in a dispatch from Athens coinciding with the submission of the 2019…
By G. Kampourakis [email protected]
A high-ranking government source told “N” on Monday that a landmark agreement to resolve the fYRoM “name issue” will first be ratified by Greece’s Parliament before…
By T. Tsiros
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The Greek state can achieve a primary budget surplus of 3.56 percent of annual GDP – or 122 million euros more than the prescribed target in…
By S. Zisimos
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New business registrations increased by 4.5 percent over the first nine-month period of 2019, a development that was also accompanied by a significant decrease in the…
By A. Tsimplakis
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Container ships appear to generate a larger share of emissions produced by commercial vessels compared to their overall number and transport capacity, according to a recent…
By N. Bellos
Although the issue of suspending a scheduled pension reform, set for January 2018, was not discussed at Monday’s Eurogroup meeting in Luxembourg, subsequent statements by top Eurozone…
The Athens-based Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE) on Monday announced a noteworthy decrease in Greece’s economic sentiment index for September 2018, dropping to 101.3 points from 105.3 points…
By T. Tsiros [email protected]
The Greek government foresees GDP growth in 2018 reaching 2.1 percent (up from 2 percent prescribed in the medium-term fiscal program) and 2.5 percent for 2019,…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reportedly spoke by phone late Sunday evening with his counterpart in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM), Zoran Zaev, hours after the polls closed…
Greece’s foreign ministry reacted cautiously on Sunday to the result of a same-day referendum in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM) over a provisional agreement to resolve the long-standing…
Throwing leaflets outside the US ambassador’s well-guarded residence in downtown Athens on Sunday while reportedly riding atop motorcycles was the latest “flash intervention” by a notorious self-styled anarchist group.
True…
A light earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale was recorded at 16.15 (14.15 GMT) on Sunday southeast of the large island of Crete, some 28 kilometers from the Zakros…
By I. Zafolia [email protected]
Reports of massive discrepancies in Folli Follie Group’s 2017 results, including a difference of 290 million USD in cash reserves for its China operations along with…
Much of southern Greece continued to experience weather-related problems on Sunday, as a severe cyclone-like stormed caused torrential rainfall and heavy seas.
Hundreds of calls to the fire brigade were…
Civil defense authorities were in high alert across the southern half Greece on Saturday, as a rare – according to meteorologists – cyclone-like depression was made landfall in the extreme…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday touted what he called his government’s handling of the migrant/refugee crisis, which erupted in the eastern Aegean in 2015, as well as its…
A close adviser to main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday reiterated that the prospect of snap elections being declared in the country is very high, given…
Bank deposits in Greece posted an increase in August 2018, according to the Bank of Greece (BoG) this week, a development considered as extremely encouraging for credit institutions’ liquidity and…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras promised to ratify the “Prespes Agreement” in order to finally resolve the fYRoM “name issue”, regardless of the political fallout to his shaky coalition government,…
By D. Alexaki
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The Sklavenitis super market group is expected to exceed consolidated turnover in 2018 of three billion euros, with the management of the robust retailer expressing satisfaction…
Easyjet founder and shipowner Stelios Haji-Ioannou this week announced the 50 bi-communal teams (50 Greek-Cypriots and 50 Turkish-Cypriots), each of which will receive cash prizes of 10,000 euros – with…
A council of appellate justices will decide, for a third time, whether the former head of Greece’s statistics authority, Andreas Georgiou, will be tried on charges of inflating the state’s…
A total of 3,154 “golden visas” have been issued by the Greek state to third country investors or buyers of real estate this year and up until Aug. 31, 2018,…
The Cosco-managed Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) this week announced 18.7 million euros in profits for H1 2018, citing higher turnover and reduced operating costs during the first six months of…
