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…
The finance ministry on Thursday announced a further easing of capital controls in Greece, one of the remaining repercussions from failed negotiations between the Tsipras coalition government and institutional creditors…
Primary and secondary schools were ordered closed on Friday in the greater Athens area by the Attica prefecture governor, Rena Dourou, as a precaution against what she called “particularly intense…
By G. Kampourakis [email protected]
The Tsipras government this week emphasized that submission, to Parliament, of the 2019 draft budget will not be delayed due to its increasingly pressing effort to…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday pounced on reports that the European anti-fraud office (OLAF) was investigating reports of misuse of EU funds allocated for refugee-linked…
By S. Emmanuil & I. Zafolia
A long-awaited forensic evaluation by Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) of beleaguered Folli Follie Group (FF Group) shows the latter’s value at one-tenth of what…
The specter of a “medicane”, a Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone, hitting the southern Ionian sea region and southwest Greece on Friday has caused concern in the country and heightened media attention.…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras took his overseas message of “more investments for post-bailout Greece” to Manhattan on Wednesday, where he addressed US investors and representatives of investments funds in…
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Wednesday continued to insist that already legislated austerity measures – another round of pension cuts in 2019 and a lowering of the tax-free annual…
Moody’s on Wednesday announced that it has maintained Greece sovereign credit rating at B3, and with a positive outlook.
The international ratings agency last upgraded Greece in February 2018.
“The…
By L. Karageorgos
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Sources in the shipping hub of Piraeus told “N” this week that several Greek-owned companies that have already installed expensive scrubbers on their vessels are livid…
By S. Emmanuil [email protected]
The founders of the embattled Folli Follie Group (FF Group) resigned on Tuesday evening in the wake of an explosive board of directors meeting and following…
By I. Zafolia [email protected]
High-ranking executives of 99 stock markets from around the world that are members of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) will arrive in Greece for…
Lease prices across Greece increased by 8.4 percent over the recent period, compared with 2017, a RE/MAX Greece study claimed this week, with the multinational realtor firm saying available residential…
By G. Palaitsakis [email protected]
A new document submitted to Parliament by the independent public revenues authority substantially raises the amount of arrears owed to the Greek state and pension funds…
Politico Europe on Tuesday cited an unnamed spokesperson for the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) as saying an investigation has begun into alleged “irregularities” involving EU funds provided to Greece to…
A meeting in New York City between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lasted for roughly one hour on Tuesday, with government sources in Athens…
