By L. Karageorgos
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A total of 1,920 exhibitors from 92 countries will showcase products and services at this year’s Posidonia maritime exhibition, its semicentennial anniversary, billed as the world’s…
By Vassilis Kostoulas [email protected]
Countries exiting a bailout program are vulnerable to external events, and Greece should protect itself by sending a clear message that it will continue with agreed-to…
A report by the Hellenic Fiscal Council (HFisc), an independent administrative authority established in 2014 under the second memorandum, on Thursday referred to significant risks that jeopardize the Greek economy’s…
Greek systemic lender Alpha Bank’s net profits increased by 1.34 percent in the first quarter of 2018, reaching 65.2 million euros. The same figure for the first quarter of 2017…
The market watchdog in Greece, the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, on Thursday announced that it was filing a lawsuit again Folli Follie group after the listed company failed to provide…
The Ecumenical Patriarchate, the primus inter pares of the world’s Eastern Orthodox churches, this week announced that it had received a request by the “schismatic” Orthodox Church in the former…
By G. Kampourakis [email protected]
Government sources were optimistic in their assessment that an agreement between Athens and Skopje to finally resolve the obscure – by international standards – but nagging…
Five expressions of interest for the purchase of a majority package of the Hellenic Petroleum (Hel.pe) group were submitted by a deadline on Wedneday.
Greece’s privatization agency, HRADF, and Paneuropean…
European creditors and the IMF are seeking a last-minute agreement over the Greek debt, although the Fund’s participation as a creditor in the Greek program appears unlikely if there is…
By S. Papapetros [email protected]
Arrears owed to Greece’s social security sector have reached nearly 32 billion euros over the first trimester of 2018, an increase by 584 million euros compared…
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on Tuesday announced what it called its largest equity investment in the tourism sector to date by signing agreement that render it…
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias added another parameter to the ongoing, and by all accounts, intensified negotiations towards finding a solution to the nagging “name issue” still separating Athens and…
All of the remaining “prior actions” demanded by creditors in order to conclude the fourth and last review of the current bailout – which itself ends on Aug. 20 –…
The Hellenic Investors’ Association on Monday warned that it will file lawsuits on behalf of shareholders and bondholders of the Folli Follie Group (FFG), a jewelry and accessory maker listed…
By V. Vegiri
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An urgent investment program worth 27.8 million euros at Thessaloniki Port Authority in the implementation phase, the newly privatized port’s management of the announced last week.…
By L. Karageorgos
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Bank lending towards the Greek shipping sector shrank by 5.6 percent in 2017, after an 8.77 percent drop in 2016 compared to 2015, according to annual…
Former German vice-chancellor and foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel on Tuesday will be the keynote speaker at the general assembly of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), Greece’s largest employers’ and…
Roughly six percent of Greek citizens, between the ages of 20 and 64, lived in other EU member-states in 2017, according to figures released on Monday by Eurostat. The same…
Greek authorities on Monday announced that 40 foreign nationals were arrested at Iraklio (Heraklio) airport on Crete between May 21 and May 27, 2018 on charges of possession and use…
Tax inspectors in Greece continued to target top tourist destinations, among others, as the former are traditional “havens” for tax evasion in the still bailout-dependent country.
In a sample of…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis remained “on message” over the weekend, saying that if elected he and his center-right party will lower taxes in the recession-battered…
The foreign minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM), Nikola Dimitrov, on Monday estimated that negotiations to finally solve the “name issue” still plaguing relations between Athens and…
The Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), Greece’s largest employers’ and industrialists’ group, on Thursday evening responded to the Greek coalition government’s recently unveiled “holistic strategic growth plan” with four proposals.…
Greece’s finance ministry said tax revenues reached 13.088 billion euros over the first four-month period of the year, exceeding a budget target by 297 million euros.
The closely watched primary…
German media focused directly on the publication of a 40-page “supplemental MoU” on the Greek program, unveiled by the Commission on Thursday, with Handelsblatt noting that Greece will remain under…
AEK Athens FC on Friday announced that it was parting ways with Spanish coach Manuel ‘Manolo’ Jiménez, who led the popular Greel football team to its first championship in 24…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras travelled to the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Friday for a meeting with the city’s mayor, Yannis Boutaris, days after the latter was kicked…
The Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) on Friday announced a suspension of trading of Folli Follie shares, following a relevant request by the Capital Markets Commission, and earlier, by the jewelry…
By A. Tsimplakis
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Some 20 percent of the global maritime trade is controlled by Greek shipowners and shipping companies, a noteworthy figure, given that only some 0.15 of the…
The Council of State, the highest administrative court in Greece, on Thursday approved of a major property development plan in gritty part of southwest Athens, opening the way for the…
