The exact number of missing persons in the wake of a deadly wildfire in eastern Attica prefecture – east of the greater Athens area – remains unknown as of Wednesday…
Greece will be able to repay the loans it has received although it is still important for the country to continue its reform efforts, ESM Managing Director Klaus Regling said…
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More than 2.4 million households in Greece and more than 200,000 legal entities (mostly SMEs) are due – according to finance ministry calculations – to pay…
The management of the Olympiacos football club on Tuesday announced that it was donating one million euros to the victims of this week’s wildfires around the greater Athens area, while…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras fielded calls from several international and Europoean leaders on Tuesday, in the wake of a deadly wildfire in eastern Attica, which has claimed nearly 80…
Τhe death toll from Monday’s devastating wildfire in eastern Attica prefecture (east of Athens proper) has reached 74, with 83 people hospitalized, of whom 12 are children.
Dozens of people…
Two Polish nationals, a mother and her 10-year-old son, are among the victims of Monday’s wildfire in eastern Attica prefecture, east of Athens proper, the Polish foreign ministry confirmed on…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared a three-day period of mourning for the victims of a deadly wildfire that swept through a coastal stretch of eastern Attica prefecture over the…
Another two bodies, a mother and her daughter, were reportedly discovered on Tuesday in the areas devastated by wildfires in eastern Attica prefecture the previous afternoon and overnight, raising the…
EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Tuesday morning expressed Brussels’ solidarity with Greece in the wake of a string of devastating wildfires that erupted around the greater Athens area a…
The port authority of Rafina, on Attica prefecture’s eastern coast, on Tuesday announced that ferry boat routes to and from its harbor were being conducted normally, while roads leading to…
At least 24 dead are the toll so far from catastrophic wildfires in eastern Attica prefecture, east of the greater Athens area, while reports point to the possibility of even…
Reports, albeit unconfirmed before midnight, referred to fatalities from a string of abruptly started wildfires east of Athens proper on Monday, along a pine-covered stretch of coastline on the western…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was cutting short his visit to Bosnia on Monday, in the wake of a bevy of wildfires that erupted almost simultaneous around the greater Athens…
The scourge of summertime wildfires in southern Greece suddenly emerged with a vengeance on Monday amid arid conditions and swirling winds, with several blazes around the greater Athens area’s remaining…
Τhe general government’s arrears to the private sector reached 2.385 billion euros at the end of May 2018.
Conversely, only 60.4 million euros went towards covering arrears during the same…
Greece’s culture ministry on Monday abruptly “changed gears” and ordered the opening of the Acropolis archaeological site, with free access, from 5 to 8 p.m. the same day.
The site…
Embattled Greek jewelry manufacturer and retailer Folli Follie has filed for protection from creditors, under Greece’s article 106 of the bankruptcy code, according to announcement on Monday issued by the…
The first major wildfire of the season erupted in Greece on Monday, with the blaze centered in the Magoula settlement off a coastal highway due west of Athens, near the…
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The official unemployment increased in Greece in June 2018 after five successive months of decreasing, with more than 923,000 people registered on jobless rolls in the…
The average income tax – on top of monthly deductions – that 2.172 million taxpayers in Greece will pay for 2017 income returns is 1,129 euros, with 5.483 million tax…
The transfer of 51 percent of the Thessaloniki area’s natural gas provider, Zenith, was completed last week, with the Public Gas Corp. of Greece (DE.PA) stake passing to Eni gas…
VesselsValue last week reported that Greek shipping interests placed new orders for 14 LNG carriers in the first half of 2018, and figure that does not include an order by…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev, his counterpart from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM), will be honored in the Bosnian city of Mostar on Monday at…
Nearly 25 million passengers passed through Greek airports in the first half of 2016, an increase of 10.5 percent compared to the same period of 2017.
According to figures released…
Excavations and restoration of a unique monument on the small island of Sikinos, one of the more remote and less visited Cyclades islands, have revealed an untouched grave containing the…
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias went on the offensive over the weekend in the wake of an unprecedented “cold front” in Greek-Russian relations, after Athens expelled two Russian diplomats and…
A tax office in north-central Athens was the latest “victim” of a notorious self-styled anarchist group, with some eight individuals vandalizing the front of the building and breaking glass.
The…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader is profiled with a lengthy interview by the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung this week, where, among others, he pledges to honor a recently concluded…
Travel & Leisure’s latest list for the 15 best islands in the world for 2018 includes a Greek destination, and specifically the central Cyclades island of Paros, which landed in…
