By T. Tsiros [email protected]
Changes in the legal framework protecting primary residences from creditors – dating from the beginning of economic crisis in Greece in 2010 – as well as…
By L. Karageorgos
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The association representing hotels in the greater Athens area cited a 5.3 percent increase in the average occupancy rate and a 7.8 percent increase in the…
Eurogroup president Mario Centeno cited two conditions for new Greek debt relief measures, ones included in a report his submitted for the Eurogroup meeting concluded last month, merely echoing other…
Reuters reported on Wednesday that the Greek government has decided to delay a new foray into the markets, as political instability in neighboring Italy has apparently claimed a next-door “victim”,…
Hellenic Petroleum (Hel.Pe) group’s general shareholders’ meeting on Wednesday approved of a 0.2125-dividend per share, with payments due to comment on July 9.
Meanwhile, Greece’s other petrochemical concern, Motor Oil,…
By K Deligiannis [email protected]
The state-owned Hellenic Hydrocarbon Resources Management S.A. (HHRM) will submit its report on the bids received so far for hydrocarbon research and exploitatation rights in three…
Rallies are scheduled in 20 cities across mostly northern Greece on Wednesday in support of what organizers stress is the Hellenic nature of Macedonia – the name of the biggest…
By K. Deligiannis
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An agreement over a “formula” to finally privatize the Public Gas Corp. (DE.PA) was achieved this week between the Greek side and institutional creditors, with relevant…
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Tuesday dampened any hopes of across-the-board reductions in Greece’s unpopular property tax (ENFIA), telling deputies elected with ruling SYRIZA party that 67 percent of…
By G. Kouros [email protected]
Greece’s Legal Council of the State has reportedly approved a one-year expansion of the current five-year statute of limitations for tax bureau investigations into income and…
The prime minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYROM), Zoran Zaev, was quoted by the country’s national news agency on Tuesday as saying that phone contacts with his…
A government spokesman in Ankara has threatened the possibility of an abduction of eight Turkish servicemen that have sought refuge in Greece, after arriving in the country in the wake…
The Greek government must accelerate efforts to collect necessary data to demonstrate to creditors that it has significantly lowered the state’s arrears to the private sector, as well as confirming…
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz merely reiterated this week that decisions over Greek debt relief will be taken at the end of June, in statements to the Athens daily “Ta…
A light earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale was recorded at 11:52 a.m. (09.52 GMT), according to initial estimates by a geodynamic institute in Athens.
The quake’s epicenter was…
The Greek state’s arrears towards the private sector fell slightly in April 2018, easing to 2.617 billion euros from 2.749 billion the previous month.
In an interview with “N” last…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras referred to the major contribution of the Greek shipping industry in the country’s economy, during his address at the inauguration of the biennial Posidonia 2018…
All eight Turkish officers and NCOs held in custody after arriving in NE Greece aboard a Turkish military helicopter – in the wake of an unsuccessful July 2016 coup in…
A German finance ministry spokeswoman has reiterated that a decision on whatever Greek debt relief measures will be taken before the ongoing third bailout ends in August 2018, speaking hours…
The Greek economy grew by a rate of 2.3 percent over the first quarter of 2018, Greece’s statistics authority announced on Monday, compared with the same period in 2017. The…
Bank of Greece (BoG) Gov. Yannis Stournaras has reiterated his standing support for a precautionary credit line to be extended to thrice-bailed out Greece after August 2018, when the current…
A group of self-styled anarchists entered and caused damages in a ministry building in central Athens late Monday morning to press demands for another prison furlough to be issued to…
By L. Karageorgos
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The 50 most prominent Greek shipowners in the world own and manage vessels that exceed 250 million dwt in transport capacity, according to the latest figures…
Reuters quoted Eurogroup president Mario Centeno over the weekend as saying that Euro zone lenders will develop a package of debt relief deal for Greece that will be “credible to…
The international maritime exhibition Posidonia 2018 opens its doors on Monday, June 4, with some 1,920 exhibitors from 92 countries participating.
The biennial trade exhibition and convention is considered the…
Greece’s shipping minister over the weekend met separately with officials from the Bahamas and Liberia, two countries with large ship registries – on the occasion of the upcoming biennial Posidonia…
The IMF may assume the role of a “technical adviser” in any Greek program – rather than as a lender – given that margins for resolving differences between the Fund…
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, in an interview to a Greek newspaper, promised to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece if he’s elected as Britain’s next prime minister.
In…
Greece’s finance minister over the weekend referred to arrival of “permanent tax reductions in 2019”, saying that the post-bailout period in the crisis-battered country means “no new commitments, prior actions…
Greece supreme court has reportedly upheld the extradition of a 45-year-old Turkish journalist back to the neighboring country, where he faces a prison sentence for a conviction stemming from participation…
