Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis appeared confidant on Saturday evening that his center-right party will win the next general election, pledging to abolish the current leftist-rightist coalition…
Powerful Russian Patriarch Kirill this week announced that the Russian Orthodox Church will stop including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the “primus inter pares” of the world’s Orthodox Patriarchs, in the…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday promised that his party will not support a landmark agreement between Athens and Skopje to finally resolve the fYRoM “name…
Former Greek prime minister Costas Karamanlis emphasized on Saturday, from Thessaloniki, that “we’re all here for a major ND election victory”, speaking before a scheduled address in the city by…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis took center-stage just after 8 p.m. (local time) at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) on Saturday evening, beginning his address with a…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party president Kyriakos Mitsotakis continued his tour of the 83rd Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) on Saturday, where he’s set to deliver an address later in…
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos this week promised a further relaxation of capital controls, in an interview to “N”, his first after the country’s exit from the third memorandum bailout…
Greece’s privatization fund (HRADF) on Friday announced that the Athens International Airport SA (AIA) has submitted a new offer for a 20-year extension of the facility’s concession, which was approved…
Athens quickly clarified on Friday afternoon that there is “no negotiation between the government and the institutions (creditors), but only discussions,” after conflicting press reports out of the Greek capital,…
The Greek state’s primary budget surplus over the first eight months of 2018, according to provisional finance ministry figures released on Friday, shows an significant over-performance in terms of reaching…
A European Commission spokesman on Friday flatly repeated that Greece must meet previous commitments to creditors, in directly referring to looming pension cuts in 2019 and amid conflicting press reports…
By Vassilis Kostoulas [email protected]
Despite the fact that Greece’s institutional creditors continue to emphasize, at every turn, that Athens must implement agreed-to reforms and not curtain previous ones after the end…
By L. Karageorgos [email protected]
Oceangold shipping, controlled by Yannis Dragnis, this week announced that its ship-building program was continuing as planned, with six new product tankers being built in Korea’s…
Cosco-managed Piraeus Port Authority signed its third MoU with a major Chinese port this week, with Guangzhou Port officials on hand at Greece’s biggest and busiest port.
The MoU was…
Greece’s parliament president on Thursday said a crucial bilateral agreement with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM) to finally resolve the “name issue” will come before the Greek legislature…
By G. Hatzilidis [email protected]
The latest sightseeing highlight in the northern port city of Thessaloniki lies off the metropolis’ shores, with the anchored USS Mount Whitney dominating the horizon with…
The number of injured from Thursday’s rock slide at the well-known Navagio cove on the Ionian island of Zakynthos has reached seven, including a 34-year Czech woman who has sustained…
The prime minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM), Zoran Zaev, told MEPs at the European Parliament on Thursday that his country’s “faith in Europe is one of…
A rock slide at the iconic Navagio site on the Ionian island of Zakynthos has resulted in light injuries for three people, although concerns were later expressed over missing persons,…
The former head of Parliament’s independent Budget Office, Panagiotis Liargovas, on Thursday emphasized that although the third – and hoped-for last – Greek bailout officially concluded last, creditors’ supervision of…
The official unemployment rate in Greece continued to ease in 2018, with the latest figures for the second quarter of the year showing it dropping to 19 percent, down from…
By K. Deligiannis
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Eleven construction or energy-related companies and consortia have expressed an interest in a connector natural gas pipeline between Greece and Bulgaria (IGB), with a relevant international…
Passenger traffic at airports around Greece continued to grow in 2018, with the latest figures for the Jan-Aug period showing nearly 45 million people arriving or leaving by airplane.
The…
By E. Sakellari [email protected]
The Olympus-sized “mountain” of “bad debt” burdening Greek banks’ ledgers dominated talks on Wednesday in Athens between institutional creditors’ top auditors and credit institutions’ representatives, as…
By K. Deligiannis
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Construction of a third LNG tank on the islet of Revithousa, just off an industrial district on the mainland west of the port of Piraeus, is…
EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday again dampened the Tsipras government’s hopes of avoiding agreed-to social security spending cuts in 2019, speaking almost simultaneously with reports out of Athens…
The Greek government, as expected, on Wednesday broached the issue of suspending a planned reduction in social security spending – set for of Jan. 1, 2019 – in the first…
The Greek state raised 812.5 million euros from an auction of 52-week T-Bills on Wednesday, with total bids reaching 898 million euros, oversubscribing the offer by 1.44 times.
The uniform…
Turnover in Greece’s all-important tourism sector – particularly in terms of hospitality and food-and-beverage – continued to increase in the second quarter of 2018, up by 11.5 percent , compared…
An Athens first instance court on Wednesday accepted a motion by the Folli Follie Group to maintain an injunction that provides the multinational retailer and jewelry accessory maker protection from…
