EU Commission Pierre Moscovici again expressed his confidence that all post-memorandum issues affecting the Greek program will be decided at a June 21 Eurogroup, adding that what Greece needs now…
Labor costs in Greece increased by 4.9 percent in the first quarter of 2018, comparied to the same period of 2017, according to the statistics authority, EL.STAT.
The figure is…
The head of the small right-wing party propping up the current mostly leftist Tsipras government on Tuesday repeated that his party’s MPs will not vote for any agreement to resolve…
The relevant deputy social insurance minister on Monday referred to the political “hot potato”, as far as the leftist-rightist government is concerned, of pending pension cuts as of Jan. 1,…
Businesses in Greece’s tourism and food & beverage sector led hirings for a third straight month in May 2018, adding to their payroll for the summer season.
According to an…
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the Fund will remain engaged in Greece in “some form”, with the framework to be decided after a closely watched June 21 Eurogroup meeting,…
By V. Vegiri & L. Karageorgos
A mini boon in hotel-related investments in Greece continues around the country, with a bevy of upscale units ready to open their doors in…
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on Monday afternoon, hours after a telephone conversation between Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev, said the looming prospect of a solution to the “name issue”…
Several noteworthy deals were reported on the sidelines of last week’s Posidonia maritime exhibition in Athens, including the order of another LNG tanker by the Angelicoussis group’s Maran Gas Maritime…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday received Greece’s main opposition leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is paying a visit to Israel this week, with talks focusing directly on further boosting…
A long-awaited and oft-cited telephone discussion between the prime ministers of Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM) finally took place on Monday afternoon, given that the two…
Eurogroup president Mario Centeno on Monday again referred to progress made in the Greek program, as a crucial June 21 Eurogroup is set to convene with the issue of Greek…
Developments regarding ongoing negotiations to resolve the long-standing fYRoM “name issue” are expected on Monday, according to reports, with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras meeting earlier in the morning with…
By T. Tsiros
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A pending round of social security cuts – set for Jan. 1, 2019 – will almost exclusively account for 389 million euros in reduced state spending,…
Twenty people, identified with a self-styled anarchist group that’s achieved notoriety by barging into ministries and diplomatic missions, usually to throw paint and toss pamphlets, were apprehended on Monday after…
An event commemorating the 74th anniversary of the Distomo village massacre was held over the weekend in the south-central Greek mainland town of the same name, where Nazi occupation troops…
AirHelp rates Athens’ Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport as second best on a relevant list, out of 144 airports worldwide.
The multinational company, a hi-tech provider of legal services to airline…
Air Force One, with US President Donald Trump aboard, made a brief stopover early Sunday morning at a military runway at the Souda base on the large island of Crete…
A lengthy legal saga for the former head of Greece’s statistics authority, Andreas Georgiou, continued unabated over the weekend, as the criminal division of the country’s supreme court rejected a…
Greek pharmaceutical tycoon and industry pioneer Pavlos Giannakopoulos, one of the co-founders of the Vianex group, passed away on Sunday at the age of 88.
Giannakopoulos, whose professional life began…
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire emphasized over the weekend, in a direct reference to crisis-bedeviled Greece, that obligatory budget surpluses are not enough to overcome a country’s economic crisis.…
Greece has so far received 45.9 billion euros, out of an approved credit line of 86 billion euros, part of the third bailout agreed to in August 2015 with the…
A light earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale was recorded at 10.27 p.m. (20.27 GMT) near the southwest Aegean island of Kythira, according to the Athens geodynamic institute. The…
Greece-based jewelry and accessory producer and retailer Folli-Follie on Friday announced that it has finally signed a contract with Ernst & Young (EY) to conduct a thorough audit of the…
A draft omnibus bill that includes all of the “prior actions” and reforms demanded by creditors to conclude the fourth and last review of the current memorandum – itself the…
The 66th Bilderberg Club meeting being held, as of Thursday, in Turin includes two Greeks among the 131 personalities on the invitation-only gathering, namely, center-right New Democracy (ND) party leader…
Taxpayers’ arrears to the Greek state – mostly income and corporate taxes – increased by 542 million euros over a period of just one month, according to data supplied by…
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Friday said the postponement of a one-billion-euro sub-tranche to be disbursed by the ESM to the country was a “standard abeyance”, while expressing confidence…
A pending sub-tranche of one billion euros, scheduled to be disbursed to Greece by the ESM, has been postponed, as the leftist-rightist coalition government failed to supply creditors with data…
Air Force One, carrying US President Donald Trump, may land at the Souda Bay base on the island of Crete, as the official presidential aircraft will be transporting the latter…
