By N. Bellos
A report by the EU’s Court of Auditors (ECA) this week noted that the bailout memorandums in Greece led to a significant improvement in the country’s fiscal…
Greece’s privatization fund, the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund S.A. (HRADF), on Friday issued an invitation to interested parties to submit expression of interest in an international tender for a…
Greece’s balance of trade deficit reached 16.2 billion euros in the first nine months of 2017, an increase of 2.6 billion euros in relation to the same period of 2016.…
A relevant prosecutor’s office tasked with fighting corruption in the public sector on Thursday announced a preliminary investigation into an arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
An order for the preliminary…
A relevant prosecutor’s office tasked with fighting corruption in the public sector on Thursday announced a preliminary investigation into an arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
An order for the preliminary…
One man reported as missing in Wednesday’s devastating flooding in western Attica prefecture (west of Athens proper) has turned up alive, while authorities are searching for another five people still…
By G. Palaitsakis
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Data on taxpayers’ deposits in Greek banks cannot be designated as “supplementary information” in efforts, by authorities, to prove the existence of undisclosed income if five…
Creditors’ top auditors are set to return to Athens next week in order to resume negotiations with the Greek government on concluding the third review of the ongoing bailout, with…
A veteran geology professor blamed Wednesday’s deadly flooding in an industrial district west of Athens, north of the Gulf of Elefsina, directly on ill-advised man-made interventions, stressing that “nature had…
The head of Greece’s weather service on Wednesday expressed a view that a spate of separate but devastating rainstorms in the country over recent days may be due to global…
By N. Malliara [email protected]
Application of the new International Financial Reporting Standards 9 (IFRS) is expected to affect the investors’ assessment of Greek banking shares, whereas lenders must also factor…
By N. Malliara [email protected]
Application of the new International Financial Reporting Standards 9 (IFRS) is expected to affect the investors’ assessment of Greek banking shares, whereas lenders must also factor…
The death toll from Wednesday’s catastrophic flooding west of Athens in the industrial Mandra district has reached 15, while several people are missing.…
The relevant energy and environment minister on Wednesday promised unionists from the state-run power company that the leftist-rightist coalition government will not sell-off hydro-electric plants or client “blocs” to independent…
Torrential rainfall overnight and in the early morning hours on Wednesday caused severe flooding west of Athens proper, cutting off the old Athens-Corinth highway and causing widespread property damage at…
A deadline for the voluntary disclosure of undeclared income will again be bumped back, with the latest cut-off date announced by the Greek finance ministry expected to be Nov. 25.…
TUI Austria this week announced that Greece topped its reservations list for the recently ended summer season, as well as for 2016, with turnover related to Greece increased by 25…
The finance ministry proceeded with a further loosening of capital controls in the country, with a relevant decision published on Tuesday in the government gazette, confirming an earlier report by…
Torrential rainfall overnight and in the early morning hours on Wednesday caused severe flooding west of Athens proper, cutting off the old Athens-Corinth highway and causing widespread property damage at…
German mass daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung this week referred to a growing trend of voluntary repatriations of third country migrants stranded in Greece, in an article filed from Athens.
“At…
By A. Tsimplakis [email protected]
Greek shipowners are apparently again reverting to new shipbuilding, according to figures included in the annual study by Naftiliakis, with orders for 238 vessels (23.9 million…
An unnamed finance ministry source in Athens on Tuesday was quoted as referring to a pending swap of 30 billion euros worth of bonds dating to the PSI, and with…
In the wake of a European Commission report, released on Monday, regarding Greece’s implementation of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) program, sources in Brussels noted that it was the Tsipras…
By V. Kostoulas [email protected]
Institutional creditors are in talks with Greek authorities over distribution of a “social dividend” announced on Monday evening, although deliberations “appear aligned” but are not yet…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party on Tuesday continued its scathing attack against an announcement by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, a day earlier, to dole out some 1.4 billion…
By L. Karageorgos [email protected]
Navios Maritime Partners and Capital Maritime & Trading are among the Greek-owned shipping companies that have recently allocated tens of millions of dollars for the purchase…
The justice ministry is reportedly ready to table an amendment foreseeing the automatic prosecution of anyone blocking or attempting to block auctions of foreclosed property in the country, in the…
Thirteen new routes to and from Thessaloniki’s Macedonia Airport will be inaugurated by five carriers for the summer of 2018, according to Fraport Greece executive Giorgos Vilos.
According to the…
Reaction to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ surprise televised announcement of a 1.4 –billion-euro “social dividend” doled out to roughly 3.4 million beneficiaries was immediate and scathing on Monday evening.…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras took to the airwaves on Monday evening in an unscheduled television appearance in order to announce a “social dividend” of 1.4 billion euros, saying 720…
