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…
Representatives of some 64 percent of Greece-based businesses surveyed in a recent study said sales to buyers outside the country are a challenge they want to meet.
The Future of…
A petition by the Greek state and Piraeus Bank to declare the Hellenic Shipyards at Skaramangas insolvent was heard before an Athens First Instance court on Friday.
A ruling by…
The Greek state’s pace in covering arrears to the private sector slacked off considerably last month, the Bank of Greece (BoG) reported this week, as only 14 million euros was…
By T. Tsiros [email protected]
A huge chunk of bailout loan money earmarked for Greece, as part of the ongoing third program, is not expected to be disbursed by Aug. 20,…
The number of deaths from this past week’s devastating flooding in western Attica prefecture (west of Athens proper) has reached 19, as the bodies of three men were recovered over…
Some 20 members of a notorious self-styled anarchist group broke through the front gate of the Greek defense ministry and threw pamphlets on Friday afternoon, an unprecedented breach of security.…
A report by the EU’s Court of Auditors (ECA) this week included no less than 10 recommendations to the EU Commission in order to improve its institutional role vis-à-vis memorandum…
Leftist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday briefly took a break from concentrating on recession-battered and still bailout-dependent Greece and called for a change in Europe’s economic model.
In…
The German business daily Handelsblatt this week again focused on the Greek economy, pointing to a distinct improvement in certain economic indices but at the same time referring to a…
