Main opposition New Democracy (ND) president Kyriakos Mitsotakis promised a “return to normalcy” and an emphasis on attracting investments to the recession-battered country, speaking on Wednesday from a large tract…
Greece’s chief of the national defense general staff, Adm. Evangelos Apostolakis, on Wednesday received US ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt, amid a recent spike in tensions in the eastern Mediterranean…
By A. Tsimplakis [email protected]
A “Turkish wave” of professional pleasure craft is again expected to target the foremost holiday destinations in the eastern Aegean this summer, amid a still fuzzy…
Turkish saber-rattling continued unabated on Wednesday, with an aide to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan boasting that “not the sixth, but not even if the 66th fleet can put Turkey…
The first official reaction by a top Turkish government official vis-a-vis the still unresolved case of two Greek servicemen being held in Turkey for allegedly straying into that country’s border…
A close aide to Bank of Greece (BoG) Gov. Yannis Stournaras on Wednesday categorically denied a pair of online reports over the previous 24 hours claiming that bank accounts belonging…
A three-justice appellate council in Athens on Tuesday ruled against the extradition of one of nine Turkish citizens, identified as ethnic Kurds, facing charges in Turkey.
The nine individuals were…
By L. Kalamara
[email protected]
A new round of legal clashes between the troubled Club Hotel Casino Loutraki, west of Athens, and the Greek state has commenced, following this week’s decision…
The prime minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM), Zoran Zaev, on Tuesday proposed the signing and ratification of an international treaty for a possible “name issue” resolution,…
By T. Tsiros [email protected]
Reduced state spending in order to achieve an over-performance in fiscal targets, as well as mostly stagnant household spending despite extraordinary welfare payments doled out by…
By F. Zois http://[email protected]
Ryanair’s displeasure with looming rate hikes at 14 regional airports managed by a Fraport-led consortium came this week from official lips, with the low-cost airliner’s chief…
FSI-controlled Trainose, the dominant and previously state-owned rail operator in Greece, on Tuesday submitted a binding offer for the 100-percent acquisition of another state-controlled entity that provides rolling stock maintenance…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke by phone on Tuesday with UN chief Antonio Guterres, with the former’s office later saying the two men discussed regional issues, EU-Turkey and Greek-Turkish…
The Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) on Tuesday published its revised guidelines on the board of directors’ selection and appointment process for Greece’s four systemic banks (Alpha Bank, Eurobank, National…
A European Commission spokesman on Tuesday was the latest official to comment on a still unresolved case involving two Greek servicemen who allegedly strayed into Turkish territory last week, as…
An operation by police’s anti-terrorism unit was underway in the greater Athens area and at least one provincial city, beginning in the early morning hours, and targeting what initial reports…
A Greek government spokesman on Tuesday expressed a view that the case of two Greek servicemen being held by Turkish authorities, after allegedly straying across a land border between the…
The Greek state this week apparently received a short reprieve from an international court order mandating that it pay the Hellenic Shipyards at Skaramangas up to 200 million euros, a…
A looming privatization of partially state-owned Hellenic Petroleum (Hel.Pe) group involves a latest scenario by which the state and the group’s other major shareholder, Paneuropean, together offer up a 51-percent…
EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos on Monday filed a motion with a relevant supreme court deputy prosecutor demanding that the names of three “protected witnesses” who provided controversial testimony in a…
By G. Kouros
[email protected]
An “avalanche” of state-mandated seizures of assets in tandem with the confiscation of bank deposits for arrears to the tax bureau and social security funds is…
A top government official, Frangiskos Kountetakis, on Monday was appointed as the new head of Parliament’s independent Budget Office, after a majority vote by committee members elected from the two…
A first instance court in the European Turkey city of Edirne on Monday has reportedly rejected an appeal to release two Greek army servicemen, who are held in the neighboring…
The Greek shipping community should do more to support the country, relevant shipping and island policy minister Panayiotis Kouroumblis told an audience at the concluded Delphi economic forum over the…
Greek GDP grew by 1.4 percent, yoy, in 2017, down by 0.2 percent on an annual basis from the previously stated goal of 1.6 percent, according to Greece independent statistics…
A closely watched trial against two Greek servicemen held by Turkish authorities after allegedly straying across the land border between the two countries on Thursday may be delayed for several…
By G. Hatzilidis
[email protected]
Northern Greece cigarette manufacturer SEKAP has won a first legal battle to keep the company afloat as it awaits a first instance court verdict on its…
Athens-based Mytilineos group has announced an investment of up to 300 million euros for the creation of a new natural gas-fired power station, with company executives announcing the project at…
By G. Kampourakis [email protected] The Greek government is awaiting a decision on Monday by a provincial first instance Turkish court, in Edirne, over the fate of two Greek army…
Former Euro Working Group (EWG) president Thomas Wieser over the weekend continued to insist on his 200-billion-euro estimate of damages incurred by Greece from the shambolic first-half negotiations in 2015…
