The Acropolis Museum is among the top six museums in the world for 2018, according to Tripadvisor, which bestowed its annual “Travellers Choice Awards” this week.
The distinctions are awarded…
Seasonally adjusted unemployment eased to 19.1 percent in June 2018, compared with an official rate of 21.3 percent in the same month of 2017, the country’s statistics authority (EL.STAT) announced…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party on Thursday directly questioned the recent acquisition of a private electricity trader and provider in the neighboring Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM) by…
By G. Palaitsakis [email protected] Audits of taxpayers with high incomes and assets have slowed in Greece over 2018, as have fines for violations discovered during such probes, according to the…
The Council of State (CoS) has reportedly overturned a controversial surcharge on wine, according to Greek Wine Federation, in a statement on Tuesday.
The highly unpopular surcharge on wine was…
A trio of Council of State (CoS) rulings this week rejected an appeal by the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece requesting that it be excluded from paying taxes on income…
A glimmer of hope for the embattled Tsipras government that creditors will acquiesce to a postponement, or even suspension, of scheduled pension cuts as of Jan. 1, 2018, emerged this…
The most experienced of the “old hands” involved over the past quarter century in the “name issue”, US diplomat Matthew Nimetz, reiterated this week that if a Sept. 30 referendum…
Former main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Vangelis Meimarakis will be lead the center-right party’s election slate in next year’s European Parliament elections, sources close to the party said on…
By L. Karageorgos
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The end of the summer tourism season in increasingly tourism-dependent Greece will be marked by the commencement of property auctions involving up to 100 insolvent hotels…
Greece’s National Council for Radio and Television (ESR), the independent watchdog and licensing authority for broadcasters in the country, on Wednesday announced the recipients of five nationwide television licenses.
All…
Thirty-six professional fishermen in Greece have sent an extra-judicial notice to the Greek government charging that Turkish coast guard vessels and rival fishermen from the neighboring country are systematically encroaching…
Greek tourism got a major international boost this week as the east Mediterranean country was chosen as the top destination in the “The World’s Top 100” category, which was announced…
Spreads for Greek 10-year bonds climbed higher this week into the “prohibitive range”, influenced by investors’ jitters over developing markets and standing concerns over Italian finances.
On Wednesday morning, indicatively,…
The latest report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) more-or-less confirms what Greek taxpayers and business owners in the country continue to suffer in the second half…
Reduced pressure on Greek lenders’ H1 2018 results from lower non-performing exposures (NPEs) is the highlight of four separate reports by BofA/Merrill Lynch this week, one for each systemic bank…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday reiterated that, if elected as the next prime minister, his future government will immediately reduce social security contributions and promote…
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias was in the western Turkey port city of Izmir on Tuesday for the inauguration of Greece’s newly renovated consulate building, using the occasion and the…
Greece-based Aegean Airlines on Tuesday announced that it was temporarily suspending its Athens-Tehran route as of Oct. 11, 2018, citing restrictions on banking transactions and currency exchange as the reason…
By L. Karageorgos [email protected]
A powerful seamen’s union in Greece on Tuesday announced a suspension of a same-day 24-hour strike, meaning that ferry boat routes throughout the country can gradually…
Greece’s Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship (ESEE), which represents SMEs in the country and much of the retail sector, this week again unveiled proposals to reduce what it called…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday morning met with representatives of residents from the wildfire-devastated Mati settlement in coastal eastern Attica prefecture. He also toured the site of the…
Ferry boats around Greece remained in port on Tuesday due to another 24-hour strike by the biggest seamen’s union in the country, coming a day after another similar industrial action.…
By S. Papapetros [email protected]
Four sector-wide collective bargaining agreements, reportedly affecting roughly 75,000 wage-earners in the private sector, have now become law and must be implemented by relevant employers, after…
Former Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem continued on a somewhat self-critical streak this week, days after his high-profile appearances in Greece, telling a Dutch broadcaster that Eurozone member-states had excessively high…
By V. Vegiri
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A tender by Greece’s privatization fund (HRADF) for port activity concessions at the extreme northeast port of Alexandroupolis is expected next month.
The specific port authority…
By V. Kostoulas [email protected]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is reportedly insisting on its position on no “back-peddling” over previously implemented reforms in Greece’s labor market, liberalization that the Fund…
The Greek economy continued to grow in the second quarter of 2018, but at a slightly slower rate than the previous quarter. Nevertheless, the figures supplied by the independent statistics…
A seamen’s union has reportedly rejected an offer by coastal shipping operators for a 2-percent annual pay hike, with another 24-hour strike now apparently looming.
Most ferry boat routes in…
A 24-hour strike by Greece’s Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO), which represents most mid- to lower-ranking crew-members in the country’s coastal shipping sector, has interrupted ferry boat service throughout the country…
