Handelsblatt picked up on a pro-government weekly’s front-page scrutiny of Bank of Greece (BoG) Gov. Yannis Stournaras last Sunday, reminding of the latter’s past and very public fallout with the…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday reportedly asked for a postponement of an off-the-agenda Parliament debate on Thursday regarding a controversial and ultimately collapsed deal to sell Saudi Arabia…
German authorities have reportedly cited the increased arrival of passengers without a Schengen visa as the reason behind stepped up passport and border controls, as of Nov. 12, on flights…
By N. Malliara [email protected]
The long-awaited commencement of electronic auctions of foreclosed property in Greece is now set for Nov. 29, a development expected to accelerate efforts by the country’s…
By D. Alexaki [email protected]
The Dutch super market chain Spar will apparently return to the Greek market year through its participation in a consortium with local retailer Asteras, a year…
Nearly 1.46 million households in Greece are reportedly eligible to receive portions of a “social dividend” to be doled out by the government next month, with income and asset criteria…
The Lampsa group is the new owner of the building that houses the five-star King George Hotel on Syntagma Square in central Athens, after coming to terms with Greek lender…
Fraport Greece on Tuesday announced the beginning of works to modernize and upgrade the airport on the Ionian island of Kefalonia (Cephallonia), weeks after similar infrastructure works were commenced at…
By G. Kouros [email protected]
No less than 12 new burdens for taxpayers in Greece are included in the draft 2018 budget that will be tabled this week, with most of…
An EU Commission official on Tuesday said a three-party meeting between EU experts along with representatives from Greece and Germany will examine recent high-profile charges that German authorities are bypassing…
The foreign minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM), Nikola Dimitrov, on Tuesday said a planned meeting with his Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias next month, in the presence…
More than 150 vessels have already been registered on an advanced performance platform created and operated by the Greece-based Metis company.
The system and accompanying platform was designed and developed…
The Greek government’s bid to relocate the European Medicines Agency (EMA) from London to Athens fell flat this week, as the EU on Monday announced that Amsterdam will now be…
Authorities said the 21st victim of last week’s devastating flooding in western Attica prefecture – west of Athens proper – was reported on Tuesday morning with the discovery of a…
The Greek government will reportedly increase the primary budget surplus target for 2018 from a current goal of 3.5 percent (of annual GDP) to 3.8 percent, riding what’s expected to…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party retained a comfortable 12-percentage point lead over ruling SYRIZA in the latest edition of a monthly opinion poll conducted by the Thessaloniki-based University of…
The relevant employment and social security minister on Monday deflected opposition criticism that a “social dividend” the leftist-rightist coalition government wants to distribute next month is the product of over-taxation…
Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (ADMIE) S.A. on Monday reported profits of 49.6 million euros over the first nine months of 2017, up from 33.2 million euros during the corresponding…
The government’s intent to dole out a 1.4-billion-euro “social dividend” before the end of the year dominated debate in Parliament on Monday afternoon, with main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis stepping…
The US embassy in Athens, the general consulate in Thessaloniki and all US federal services in Greece will be closed on Thursday (Nov. 23) due to the Thanksgiving holiday in…
The Commission on Monday publicized a ruling ordering the Greek state to recoup 55 million euros in public monies previously given as subsidies to the state-run Hellenic Defence Systems (HDS…
Greece’s privatization fund, the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), on Monday launched two separate international public tenders for concessions, the first for the Athens-area Alimos marina and a second…
The Greek government on Monday announced a series of relief measures for flooding victims in western Attica, as well as for a handful of other areas around the country hit…
By N. Malliara [email protected]
Greece’s systemic banks are reportedly ready to sell-off some 10,000 foreclosed properties in the country by the end of the year in a new electronic auction…
By L. Karageorgos
[email protected] avenue connecting central Omonia square, in the center of Athens, with the nearby Metaxourgio (Karaiskakis) square is apparently shedding its more “seedier” reputation in the…
PASOK party president Fofi Gennimata was leading with a comfortable 57.45 percent of the vote, with 75 percent of ballots counted, late Sunday evening in the second round of a…
A deputy economy minister who previously enjoyed a more-or-less successful tenure as a the head of Greece’s privatization agency on Sunday emphasized that a pair of closely watched but delay-plagued…
Bank of Greece (BoG) Gov. Yannis Stournaras on Sunday flatly denied a same-day front-page article claiming he failed to list the size of a large pool at his vacation home…
The second round of a leadership race for a nascent center-left political formation in the country is expected to attract more than 150,000 voters, which on a mostly rain-soaked Sunday…
The death toll from this week’s devastating flooding in west Attica prefecture (west of Athens proper) reached 20 on Sunday, with the recovery of a body belonging to one of…
