The first day on the job of new culture minister Myrsini Zorba coincided with a major Twitter hoax, as an account bearing her name and likeness was used to announce…
Greece’s independent statistics authority reported that the industrial producer price index (PPI) for July 2018 increased by 8.2 percent, compared to the same month in 2017. In a press release,…
Greek tax authorities are reportedly ready to commence an oft-repeated pledge to locate undeclared income from Airbnb-type short-term property leasings, months after a relevant law was ratified and amid reports…
Greece’s four systemic banks are expected to commence a more-or-less automated process to sell-off “bad loan” portfolios in the coming period, within the framework of a “calendar effect” agreed to…
The website of the Public Power Corp. (PPC), the state-run and dominant power supplier in the country, was hacked and taken offline on Wednesday by a group that identified itself…
By K. Deligiannis [email protected]
An international tender to sell-off Public Power Corp.’s (PPC) lignite-fired units in the Peloponnese and northwest Greece, along with the mines that provide lignite deposits, continues…
One of the first reactions by international media to a Cabinet reshuffle in Greece on Tuesday came from the German financial daily Handelsblatt, which referred to the poll-trailing Tsipras government’s…
By A. Tsimplakis
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Greece’s privatization agency, HRADF, is reportedly ready to commence the third phase of a process to, at least, partially privatize 10 regional port authorities around Greece,…
One hundred and thirty-three incidents of West Nile fever have now been reported in Greece so far this year, with 16 deaths linked with the viral infection that’s usually associated…
A garage fire aboard a large ferry boat headed to Crete from Piraeus erupted at roughly 4 a.m. (02.00 GMT) as it was sailing eight nautical miles off a Saronic…
Police authorities on the island of Lesvos (Mytilene), which has borne the brunt of a migrant/refugee crisis in the eastern Aegean since 2015, have reportedly targeted 30 members of a…
The “strange bedfellows” Tsipras government became even more “politically peculiar” on Tuesday with a mini Cabinet reshuffle that sees a former New Democracy minister and MP appointed as the deputy minister for…
By A. Tsimplakis
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Roughly 22 percent of Cosco Ports revenues come from its Piraeus-based subsidiary PCT, which manages pier II and pier III at within the port of Piraeus,…
Passenger traffic at Greece’s commercial airports increased by 10.1 percent (yoy) in the first seven months of the year, benefitting primarily from overseas traffic.
According to data released on Monday…
Convicted “17N” arch-assassin Dimitris Koufodinas has been granted yet another 48-hour furlough, this time from a farm prison near the central coastal city of Volos, where he was recently transferred…
The pilot of a T-2 Hellenic Air Force training aircraft was retrieved on Tuesday morning near the southern Greek city of Sparta, according to press reports.
The two-seater aircraft was…
Two former Turkish navy commandos accused of taking part in an assassination attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are being kept in a secret and high-security location in Greece,…
Former Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem, one of the protagonists in the 2015 Greek crisis that engulfed the Eurozone, on Monday expressed optimism over Greece’s future, speaking on an Athens television…
Folli Follie on Monday announced its cooperation with Synergon Partners, a consulting group specializing in financial and corporate restructuring, while at the same time noting that Dimitris Kouvatsos has been…
The up-until-now interior minister, Panos Skourletis, has been appointed as the new secretary of ruling SYRIZA party’s central committee, a decision by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that more-or-less serves…
The death toll from a catastrophic wildfire that tore through the coastal Mati settlement in eastern Attica late last month has reached 97, after a 76-year-old man hospitalized in a…
Greece’s electricity distribution network operator, DEDDHE, on Monday said power supply to the popular Saronic Gulf island of Hydra was restored in the afternoon, after a nearly 36-hour outage that…
The head of an industrial hemp and pharmaceutical cannabis manufacturer in northern Greece assessed recently that new investments in the sector will reach 255 million euros until 2019 for new…
By G. Hatzilidis
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A new high-end resort at the Loutra Eleftheron site in the northern port city of Kavala is being built by the Harakidis group. The Elefthere Seaside…
By G. Sakkas
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Shareholders representing 95.7 percent of MIG’s share capital overwhelming approved the sale of the Hygeia health care group in Athens to Hellenic Healthcare SARL, an investment…
By A. Tsimplakis
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Major differences in per diem travel spending by holiday-makers in Greece continued to differentiate tourists from northern Europe, the US, Russia, other EU countries and neighboring…
The latest message by a top European official cautioning against any backsliding by the Greek government over agreed to reforms came on Saturday, this time issued by German Finance Minister…
The popular Saronic Gulf island of Hydra remained without electricity and water supply for much of Sunday, the last weekend in the high season tourism month of August. The interruption…
Another high-profile release of an infamous inmate in Greece, this time on health reasons, generated a firestorm of reactions and criticism on Friday, as a 39-year-old man serving felony convictions…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis launched into his own late summer mini political “offensive” over the weekend, promising to abolish portions of controversial pension and labor reforms…
