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…
Financial Times on Friday reported that a subsidiary of the US-based private equity group KKR has made its second foray into Greece’s massive NPL market, with reports saying it will…
Four Turkish nationals were arrested along the western bank of the Evros River in extreme northeast Greece on Thursday next to the border with Turkey, which the specific waterway delineates.…
The Russian foreign ministry on Friday formally complained to Greece’s ambassador in Moscow over what the pro-Kremlin site calls “anti-Russian” statements by Athens.
The development comes after an unprecedented souring…
A contract to sell-off 66 percent of Greece’s state-run Gas Transmission System Operator S.A. (DESFA) was signed on Friday between the country’s privatization fund (HRADF) and Hellenic Petroleum (Hel.Pe) group, on…
One apparent “silver lining” in the economic and political implosion that has plagued Greece since 20009-2010 is that e-governance has rapidly flourished in the process, bypassing much of what was…
By G. Kampourakis gkamp@naftemporiki.gr
Political speculation in Athens this week, at least on the domestic front, centered on the upcoming cuts in social security spending, an austerity measure agreed…
Greece’s Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship (ESEE) this week issued detailed instructions on how businesses and producers in the country can secure the trademark “Macedonia” or “Macedonian” for their…
The first Greece-based company affected by the recent Trump administration decision to slap tariffs on a series of European products is Corinth Pipeworks, following a rejection of an application that…
The IMF continued to toe a strict line vis-a-vis the Greek program, nearly a month before the third and last bailout ends on Aug. 21, with the Fund on Thursday…
A union in Greece representing casino workers has declared a 48-hour strike for the coming weekend, lasting until midnight on Sunday.
The union (OSETYP) said the industrial action aims to…
The Tass news agency on Thursday reported that a scheduled visit to Greece by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been postponed.
If confirmed, the development would be linked with…
A 55-year-old woman was arrested by police at a shopping mall in southern Athens this week on charges of repeatedly scratching and slashing infants with her fingernails or a sharp…
A former labor minister in a previous center-right government on Thursday stepped up the opposition’s burgeoning political attack on the leftist-rightist coalition government, months before another round of social security…
By T. Igoumenidi
tigoum@naftemporiki.gr
Corporate advisory and consulting firm Glass Lewis recommends a vote in favor of the proposals submitted by Ellaktor shareholders Anastasios and Dimitris Kallitsantsis, as a board…
The now closely monitored process to draft Greece’s 2019 budget has more-or-less official begun, as an urgently issued circular by the alternate finance minister this week calls on all entities…
Official Athens reacted angrily on Wednesday hours after a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman warned of repercussions due to the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from Greece, with the former referring…
A Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman on Wednesday said the recent expulsions of two Russian diplomats from the country “cannot but have consequences”, roughly a week after press reports disclosed the…
Greece now has the tools with which to implement the reforms that will allow its economy to grow in a sustainable manner, Eurogroup president Mario Centeno was quoted on Wednesday,…
The primary state budget surplus over the Jan-Jun 2018 reached 6.494 billion euros, according to provisional data released on Wednesday by the Bank of Greece (BoG).
The central government cash…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week promised the country’s bar association presidents that if his party wins the next elections he lower tax rates and contributions…
Reports out of Turkey on Wednesday, citing sources in the prosecutor’s office in the border city of Edirne, pointed to the prospect of a maximum prison sentence of two years…
A light earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale was reported at 10 a.m. (08.00 GMT) on Wednesday northwest of the lake-side city of Ioannina, in northwest Greece.
The quake’s…
The board of directors of National Bank of Greece on Tuesday unanimously voted for acting CEO Pavlos Mylonas to assume the position on a permanent basis.
“Assumption of the NBG…