The Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) organized a thematic workshop this week to promote wine tourism, held in cooperation with a national inter-professional organization representing winemakers and viticulturists.
Entitled “When Wine…
The Union of Greek Shipowners (UGS) on Wednesday announced that the sector organization has been accepted as a member in the Arctic Economic Council (AEC).
The latter describes itself as…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras promised cheaper fuel pointed to the implementation of a passenger and freight fare subsidy for the permanent residents of certain islands – beginning next month…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ office on Wednesday announced the itinerary for his official visit to Moscow this week, with the latter set to meet with Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis stayed “on message” in an interview with Financial Times this week, stressing that if elected as the next prime minister in the…
Athens-based media group Antenna on Wednesday announced that it was selling its subsidiaries in Serbia and Montenegro for 180 million euros.
The group’s Serbian subsidiary owns two free-to-air televisions stations,…
Greece finds itself in the unenviable “top spot” of the OECD’s list in terms of tax hikes in surveyed member-states, with relevant tax revenues in the thrice-bailed out country posting…
Former finance minister Gikas Hardouvelis was unanimously acquitted – for a second time in the same case – this week on charges of failing to submit a mandatory statement of…
By K. Deligiannis [email protected]
Public Power Corp. (PPC), Greece’s dominant electricity utility, has given a Dec. 17 deadline to Halyvourgiki, the biggest steel mill in the country, to begin covering…
The latest “hiccup” affecting a provisional agreement between Athens and Skopje to resolve the long-standing “fYRoM name issue” revolved around a statement over the weekend by the neighboring country’s prime…
Speculation was rife in Athens on Tuesday that eight defendants on remand in a massive gold trafficking investigation, accompanied by charges of fencing and racketeering, will soon be set free…
By A. Tsimplakis
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Professionals in the maritime tourism sector are awaiting a joint ministerial decision that excludes certain categories of vessels from imposing VAT on their rates, based on…
The US embassy in Athens and its consular section, the US consulate general in Thessaloniki, and all US federal government offices in Greece will be closed on Wednesday, Dec. 5 in…
By G. Kanoupakis [email protected]
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week reiterated his center-right party’s proposal for a “radical tax reform” in the country, pointing to a…
By K. Deligiannis
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Public Power Corp. (PPC) is expected to issue a corporate bond of between 400 to 500 million euros within the first quarter of 2019, according to…
By N. Bellos [email protected]
Eurozone finance ministers on Monday, as expected, formally approved of a suspension of the social security reduction that was set for implementation in Greece on Jan.…
An information bulletin for the auction of Folli Follie’s 35.7-percent stake in Attica department stores has been posted on the eauction.gr platform by creditors banks.
FF’s shares in the central Athens…
The Hellenic committee of Italy-based ship classification and certification provider RINA hosted a meeting with several top leaders of Greece’s shipping community last month, with the emphasis new technologies. The…
Bureau Veritas organized the 29th marine technical committee meeting of last month at the Yacht Club of Greece, which was hosted George Andreadis, Veritas’ marine chief executive, and chaired by…
Bank of Greece (BoG) Gov. Yannis Stournaras on Monday emphasized – from Berlin, no less – that reforms in thrice-bailed out Greece must continue, while again warning that Athens’ obligations…
By V. Kostoulas [email protected]
A top Greek banker on Monday shed light on the issue of protection of primary residences in Greece – shielding over-indebted households from creditors – after…
The latest political row in Greece emerged on Monday morning from press leaks of a report by the majority of members on a Parliament committee investigating alleged health sector corruption,…
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama referred to an upcoming meeting with his Greek counterpart, adding it will come “very soon”, in comments to Greece’s state-run news agency.
The Albanian leader…
S&P’s upgrading of Greece’s Public Power Corp. (PPC), the state-run and dominant electricity utility in the country, bodes well for the ATHEX-listed company’s efforts to restructure in the next six…
The Greek side is expected to again be on the “receiving end” of pressure by Eurozone partners on Monday during a Eurogroup meeting, with the emphasis being on Athens’ implementation…
National Bank of Greece on Friday reported 48 million euros in profits in the Jan-Sept. 2018 period at the group level, compared with damages of 103 million euros in the…
In one of the more interesting bits of statistics released this month by the country’s independent public revenues authority is the fact that 900 million euros, out of 1.4 billion…
A total of 37 Montenegrin citizens travelling to watch a basketball game in Athens on Friday afternoon were detained at a tollway station west of the Greek capital, after authorities…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party president Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday weighed in over a successive wave of high school occupations and sit-ins by pupils – mostly in northern Greece…
By T. Tsiros
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Business entities in Greece face the fifth highest tax rate on profits in the European Union, despite a recently Parliament voted reduction in the corporate rate,…
