The foreign minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fyrom) appeared optimistic over the weekend that a majority of voters in his country will ultimately approve a bilateral agreement…
A line of vehicles extending some 5 kilometers was piled up on the southbound side of the Athens-Lamia highway on Sunday afternoon, during a mass return of excursionists to the…
The ever-present “agreements must be adhered to” phrase was again uttered by a Eurozone official on Friday, in response to a cascade of reports out of Athens this week that…
By G. Kampourakis [email protected]
A controversial Cabinet reshuffle this week by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras offered only a brief distraction for his poll-trailing leftist-rightist coalition, as it faces a…
Increased passenger traffic at Greece’s airports continued in July 2018, compared to the same month in 2017, with 3.83 million arrivals recorded last month, up by 9.8 percent from the…
By A. Tsimplakis
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Jet-setting Mykonos, in the Cyclades island chain, again confirmed its reputation as one of the priciest spots in the Mediterranean, with recent figures showing its five-star…
A moderate earthquake measuring on the Richter scale was recorded just west of the central Greek city of Karditsa on Friday morning, and specifically at 10 a.m. (08.00 GMT).
The…
Α cruiser carrying no less than 71 foreign nationals was intercepted by the Greek coast guard in the early morning hours of Thursday in a sea region just off the…
Greek lender Alpha Bank on Thursday reported after-tax profits of 12.3 million euros in the first half of 2018, while saying it retained a sector-leading capital position with Common Equity…
Hellenic Petroleum group (Hel.Pe), the biggest petrochemical concern in Greece and one of the largest in SE Europe, on Thursday reported EBITDA up by 25 percent in H1 2018, standing…
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…
