Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos over the weekend again referred to two servicemen being detained in Turkey as “hostages”, a type of incarceration he said comes without a trial and…
A new system whereby the current university entrance regime in Greece is replaced by admission based on a pupil’s grade point average on their high school diploma was announced over…
A union representing guards of archaeological sites, employees affiliated with the culture ministry, on Friday announced that it was suspending a four-hour work stoppage set for Saturday.
The current week…
A finance ministry council of experts calculated Greece’s annual primary budget surplus at 3.7 percent of GDP in 2017, with the growth rate reaching 1.4 percent, a lower figure than…
Greek warplanes reportedly intercepted the first Turkish UAV “drone” operating in the Aegean, and specifically over the Dodecanese island of Rhodes on Thursday.
According to the Athens daily “Kathimerini”, the…
The parents of two Greek servicemen held in pretrial detention in a Turkish border city visited the pair on Friday, which is Good Friday on the Orthodox Christian calendar.
The…
Wood & Company forecasts lower GDP growth rates for Greece in 2018 and 2019 than the ones already unveiled by the IMF and the EU Commission, predicting a 1.9-percent hike…
By L. Kalamara [email protected]
A decision this week by an administrative court in Greece in favor of Canadian multinational Eldorado Gold’s Greek subsidiary – its latest legal battle with the…
Greece’s Public Debt Management Agency on Thursday announced that the Greek state will auction 13 Weeks T-Bills on April 11, 2018, in book entry form, and with maturity of July…
Nearly half of the surplus balance of new jobs spots – the difference between hirings and redundancies — in recession-battered Greece in March 2018 were in the tourism sector, specifically…
German media continued to focus on the Greek debt issue this week, forecasting that new German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has his work cut out for him in the post-memorandum…
Thirty-nine out of 41 electronic auctions of foreclosed real estate in Greece were completed on Wednesday, with a highest bidder declared – a development that apparently shows the very successful…
Uber on Thursday announced that it was temporarily suspending its uberX service in Athens as of next Tuesday, in the wake of a new law, passed recently by the leftist-rightist…
Members of a notorious anti-state group mostly active in the greater Athens area struck again on Thursday, this time throwing paint at the Turkish consulate in the Psychiko district, the…
By V. Kostoulas [email protected]
The numbers are staggering: In 2009 China exported, in a span of six hours, the total export output that it had recorded in all of 1979!…
A travel agents’ federation in Greece on Wednesday sharply criticized an industrial action by a union representing guards of archaeological sites in the country, scheduled for Saturday, between 8 a.m.…
Another incident involving Greek and Turkish coast guard vessels was reported on Wednesday off the large eastern Aegean island of Hios (Chios), with Athens reporting that a Turkish patrol boat…
Golden Energy shipping, controlled by the Restis family, this week announced that it will take delivery of two new Suezmax tankers from Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. this week.…
By T. Igoumenidi
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A generous debt “haircut” and the voluntary transfer of properties to creditor banks is foreseen in a rescue plan submitted to a relevant first instance court…
The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and France have reportedly submitted a plan to link debt relief for still-bailout dependent Greece with the country’s growth until 2050, Handelsblatt reported on Tuesday,…
The Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research’s (IOBE) economic sentiment index for March receded to 99.8, after several months of successive increases. The index during the previous month reached 104.3…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party’s lead over ruling SYRIZA was given at 4.4 percentage points this week, the first mainstream poll in several months showing such a close margin…
Athens’ Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (AIA) has been voted as the best airport in southeast Europe, as part of the annual Skytrax World Airport Awards, the biggest international study gauging…
A previous “no” by Greece’s powerful Central Archaeological Council (KAS) to a BBC request to film a segment for an upcoming series on the archaeological site of Sounion turned into…
The state’s arrears to the private sector increased by 237 million euros in February 2018, a figure that includes both debts to contractors and tax returns to individual citizens.
Specifically,…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday again promised Cabinet members, and by extension his poll-trailing SYRIZA party’s MPs and supporters, that he’ll exhaust the government’s four-year mandate practically to…
Politico this week reports on the increasing number of Turkish citizens that have requested political asylum in Greece after an unsuccessful military coup in the neighboring country nearly two years…
Fallout continued on Tuesday from the previous day’s sharp criticism by outspoken Defense Minister Panos Kammenos of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ankara’s overall stance over the recent period,…
A couple of well-publicized crime-related incidents generated the latest high-profile criticism by main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday, who claimed that stranger-on-stranger violence has recently surged in the country.…
Six experts previously employed by Greece’s privatization agency between 2013 and 2014 have again been referred to trial on simple complicity and breach of faith charges – a back-and-forth legal…
