Fraport Greece focused on upgrades and improvement at the Mytilene (Lesvos) airport this week, as the German-Greek consortium that now manages 14 provincial airports around the country continues to use…
Greece-based Titan cement group on Thursday announced that it recorded on small increase in sales and operating profitability over the first nine-month period of 2017.
In a press release, the…
By V. Kostoulas [email protected]
“We want to see our country more as part of the eastern Mediterranean, rather than as a part of the Middle East”, was the way a…
Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Chouliarakis’ admission, made before members of Parliament’s finance and budget committee on Wednesday, that his leftist-rightist coalition government “consciously” chose to pile on tax heavy burdens…
A Hellenic Navy frigate went aground off a small islet off the greater Athens area mainland on Thursday morning while returning to its anchorage on the island of Salamina after…
A relevant alternate finance minister on Wednesday told a Parliament committee that no new austerity measures will be included in a draft budget for 2018, which will be tabled on…
Greek shipowners have apparently taken possession of a greater share of the new ships that are scheduled for delivery in 2017, compared to other national blocs of owners, according to…
By S. Papapetros [email protected]
A minimum monthly payment of 384 euros with 20 years of contributions (360 euros for 15 years) is foreseen for bereavement pensions, according to a draft…
The coordinator of the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), an independent body unaffiliated with the government, on Wednesday warned that the country’s exit from the era of bailout memorandums, set for…
Greece’s privatization fund, the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), on Wednesday announced that a total of 20 investors have expressed interest in a tender process, via an online e-auction…
Greek authorities on Wednesday appeared confident that they have solved the murder of a well-known Athens defense attorney last month, announcing that five Albanian nationals are considered as the perpetrators…
By V. Kostoulas [email protected]
The prospect of securing EU funding and a “better understanding” between Cyprus and Turkey are judged as significant factors for achieving the construction of the East…
Greece fell six spots in this year’s “Doing Business” report, issued by the World Bank, dropping to 67th place out of 190 countries surveyed, with the categories of paying taxes,…
An improving economic outlook in Greece was interrupted in October 2017, according to the monthly reported issued by the Athens-based Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE), with surveyed business…
Greek finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Tuesday evening reiterated that a “social dividend” will be doled out by the government by the end of the year, and that this prospect…
By A. Tsimplakis [email protected]
A looming cooperation between Cosco and the Danish logistics group Trans-IT was reported this week, with the Chinese multinational eyeing a transformation of the port of Piraeus into…
A 32-year-old Albanian national was arrested in the western port city of Patras over the weekend on charges related to the recent gangland-style slaying of a prominent defense attorney in…
The Greek state uncharacteristically went into “overdrive mode” in September to drastically reduce arrears to the private sector, a memorandum-mandated provision that was also the primary condition for the release…
A special levy on interest-bearing bank loans has collected 852 million euros over the 2015-16 period, the relevant finance minister announced this week.
Nevertheless, FinMin Euclid Tsakalotos said only 175…
The key dates on the Greek government’s calendar for concluding the pending third review of the ongoing bailout start on Nov. 6, when Eurozone finance ministers will receive an official…
Spain’s envoy to Greece on Tuesday expressed regret that his press statements “were the cause for interpretations that in no way reflect reality”, essentially defusing a mini diplomatic tempest after…
A top opposition deputy this week demanded that the government release figures related to convicts released under the controversial “Paraskevopoulos law”, named for the former justice minister who spearheaded the…
By L. Kalamara [email protected]
An amendment that would legally pave the way for the transfer of the greater Athens area’s one and only casino from atop a mountain summit to…
By F. Zois [email protected]
Long queues of people over the past few days were evident outside ticket stalls and counters at greater Athens area’s mass transit system – buses, metro,…
Expected revisions in Greece’s civil law code – listed in draft legislation already tabled in Parliament – are expected to strengthen the country’s thrice-recapitalized banks’ position as mortgage creditors, while…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party shows a 13-percentage point lead over ruling SYRIZA in the latest opinion poll results broadcast on Monday evening by a local Athens television station.…
A minor earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale was recorded at 19.36 (17.36 GMT) on Monday in northern Greece, and specifically near the township of Paliouri, in Halkidiki prefecture. …
The Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) for Greece dropped in October to 98.3 points from 100.6 points in the previous month, September 2017.
The negative development for Greece was not mirrored…
A five-justice appeals court in Athens on Monday handed down a guilty verdict against a disgraced former Greek defense minister, who was freed earlier in the year from prison after…
By T. Igoumenidi [email protected]
Greece’s relevant culture minister has reportedly signed off on a decision by the influential Central Archaeology Council (KAS) designating 28 hectares of land at the former…
