A long-awaited electronic “one-stop shop” process for establishing a business entity in Greece appears to be only days away, with a joint ministerial decision expected to stipulate the operation…
By L. Karageorgos
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Greek shipping remains atop the international rankings in early 2018, based on gross tonnage, according to calculations by Vesselsvlaue.com conducted for “N”. Specifically, Greek shipping is…
Prosecutors investigating alleged kickbacks by the Greek subsidiary of pharmaceutical giant Novartis have transferred a voluminous case file to a relevant supreme court prosecutor, given that eight former ministers and…
The leftist-rightist coalition government on Monday took direct aim at one of Greece’s political “sacred cows”, a day after septuagenarian composer and leftist icon Mikis Theodorakis served as the primary…
The post-fYRoM ‘name issue’ rally furor in Greece on Monday revolved around how many people attended the protest in central Athens a day earlier, with the relevant public order minister…
By T. Tsiros
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The next Euro Working Group, set to convene on Thursday and without Thomas Wieser at its helm after six years, will again deal with the implementation…
Α massive, even by memorandum-era standards, rally was held in central Athens early Sunday afternoon to demand a hard-line stance by the Greek government in resurgent UN-mediated negotiations over the…
The Greek government on Saturday leaked what it called an exchange, last week, between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis regarding the sensitive…
A mass rally in the heart of Athens called in reaction to the resurgent fYRoM “name issue” is scheduled to proceed as planned at 2 p.m. (12.00 GMT), with organizers…
Unknown assailants, reportedly anti-state “antifa-like” like masked youth, on Saturday threw paint and defaced the front of an Athens residence where renowned Greek composer and long-time leftist icon Mikis Theodorakis…
The IHS Markit Greece Manufacturing PMI reached 55.2 in January 2018, up from 53.1 in December, as the 50-point threshold separating growth from recession.
The performance marks the eighth straight…
Greece remains first among European countries on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) list of work hours – per year – put in by residents in each country,…
Tourist arrivals to Greece from Belgium reached a 10-year high in 2017, exceeding 509,000, and posting a 12-percent increase from the previous year.
The figures were cited on the sidelines…
US ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt on Friday appeared confident that 2018 will serve as a watershed year for Greece’s economic recovery, while referring to a historic milestone for Greek-US…
Greece’s privatization agency, the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) on Friday announced that three investment schemes have expressed an interest (Phase A) for a concession to exploit a state-owned marina on…
Reactions over a resurgent effort this month to solve the fYRoM “name issue” continued unabated this week, with the latest development being anonymous threats against Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias,…
A top adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this week continued to ramp up official Ankara’s sabre-rattling – in practically all directions – vowing to “break the arms and…
A noteworthy increase in arrears to the Greek state was recorded in December 2017, a month that included an installment of ever-higher income taxes, property taxes (ENFIA) and a deadline…
By L. Karageorgos [email protected]
The value of Greek-owned shipping assets has again exceeded 100 billion USD, after plunging as low as 95 billion over recent years, primarily due to a…
A deputy IMF spokesman on Thursday stressed that the Fund continues to insist on reforms and debt relief as conditions for its participation in the Greek program.
Spokesman Williamn Murray…
A 31-percent tranche of Greek natural cosmetics manufacturer Korres changed hands on Wednesday through the bourse transfer of 13 blocks, with a price per share at 5.08 euros, and with…
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos reiterated on Thursday that the still bailout-dependent country does not need a precautionary credit line after August, when the current adjustment program ends.
Nevertheless, in…
By L. Kalamara [email protected]
A ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled against an appeal by Larco metals works, in south-central Greece, to overturn…
The last report by Parliament’s independent Budget Office, under outgoing head Panayiotis Liargovas, again expresses heightened concerns and caution over looming economic developments in the still bailout-dependent country, warning that…
By S. Papapetros [email protected]
Total arrears to Greece’s social security system, which includes only a handful of pension and health care funds at present, reached 31.285 billion euros over…
Greece’s high-end hotels reported a marginal increase of 3 percent in terms of market value between 2016 and 2017, according to estimates included in an ICAP study, issued this week,…
French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Left Party (PG) on Wednesday demanded the expulsion of Greece’s ruling party, SYRIZA, from the Party of the European Left, the leftist grouping at the European…
By N. Malliara
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International banking giant Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is seriously considering its entry into the Greek market, according to reports in Athens this week.…
Outgoing Euro Working Group chief Thomas Wieser on Wednesday, in summing up his tenure at the post, said no Greek government truly took “possession” of the bailout programs shepherded by…
The European Central Bank (ECB) will examine 37 euro area banks as part of the 2018 EU-wide stress test conducted with the European Banking Authority (EBA). In line with the…
