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
kdel@naftemporiki.gr
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 esak@naftemporiki.gr
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
kdel@naftemporiki.gr
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…
A quip by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras over the weekend has reportedly thrown a “monkey wrench” into an ongoing tender process to sell-off the bankrupt Henry Dunant (Errikos Dinan)…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras repeated on Tuesday, this time from Strasbourg, that his poll-trailing government will avoid implementing social security spending cuts on Jan. 1, 2018, as long as…
The number of victims from a July 23 wilfire that destroyed the Mati settlement in eastern coastal Attica reached 99 on Tuesday, with a badly burned 26-year-old passing away at…
Greece’s often venomous political landscape spilled over into a European Union setting on Tuesday during Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ address before a Euro-parliament plenary session in Strasbourg, when the…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday rang “warning bells” against what he called encroaching populism in the European Union, addressing a European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg, where the…
A top European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) official was quoted by Reuters this week as saying that investments funneled towards Greece and its neighboring former Yugoslav Republic of…
By V. Kostoulas vkost@naftemporiki.gr
US ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt, days after attending the inauguration of the 83rd Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) over the weekend, where the United States is…
By L. Kalamara
lkal@naftemporiki.gr
Four international gaming groups have reportedly expressed an initial interest in vying for a casino license at the Helleniko site, where the biggest real estate development…
US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, who represented Washington over the weekend at the opening of a major trade fair in the northern city of Thessaloniki, said the most important…
More than 60,000 residential properties in Greece are listed on short-term lease platforms, i.e. Airbnb, the president of Greece’s hoteliers’ federation assessed this week.
In comments to the state-run news…
Greece’s recession-battered real estate sector is showing faint signs of recovery, according a nationwide study by an association representing realtors and certified property assessors in the country.
The study, presented…
Greece-based Folli Follie’s creditors on Friday requested the removal of an injunction protecting the retailer and jewellery accessory maker’s assets, after reporting overdue loans worth nearly 45 million euros. …
Criminal charges were filed on Monday against two women arrested for at least three instances of vandalism at a same-number of Athens-area museums, in one of the more bizarre cases…
By F. Zois
fzois@naftemporiki.gr
A decades-old initiative to commence regular seaplane routes in Greece, which boasts scores of inhabited islands and number coastal sites without a nearby commercial airport, may…
European creditors took less than a day to react to the leftist-rightist coalition government in Athens, following a more-or-less package of future tax breaks and spending measures unveiled by Greek…
A package of measures, most bumped into the future and many even after general elections are scheduled in the autumn of 2018, were announced by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras…
Greece’s army general staff on Sunday evening provided details over a bizarre incident before 11 a.m. the same day, when two Turkish servicemen were arrested some 150 meters inside Greek…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party is given a 10.9-percentage point lead over ruling SYRIZA in a latest opinion poll, which was commissioned and published by the Sunday weekly “Proto…
Two Turkish servicemen were detained in the Peplos site on the frontier with Turkey in the Evros prefecture, Greek authorities announced on Sunday afternoon, confirming initial press reports of an…