An oil spill over the weekend that has blackened Athens’ southeast coastline as far as the upscale Glyfada district and the waters off the major port of Piraeus turned political…
By F. Zois [email protected]
The long-awaited transfer of shares to Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane in order to finalize the privatization of Greece’s state-run rail operator, Trainose, comes on Thursday.
The…
By L. Kalamara [email protected]
The very high profile row between the Greek state and a mining multinational with a gold and copper concession in northern Greece has taken on international…
Cyprus telecoms operator Cyta on Tuesday officially announced that it was fielding offers for its Greek subsidiary, either for outright purchases of the company or as part of a merger…
A top government official in Athens on Wednesday told reporters that a commitment to achieve specific fiscal targets in 2018 still stands.
“… I don’t expect that there will be…
Dryships this week announced that it has received a second VLGC (Very Large Gas Carrier), with the vessel already commissioned for the next five years by a major oil company and…
The sinking of a small oil tanker in the Saronic Gulf in the early morning hours of Sunday has dumped 2,570 tons of heavy fuel oil into the waters south…
The government replied in its preferred “non paper” mode on Wednesday, attacking the rival center-right opposition and throwing out a bevy to numbers and figures to prove that it’s attracting…
Three licenses promised to mining concessionaire Hellas Gold by Thursday were issued within hours on Wednesday by the relevant environment ministry, 48 hours after Canadian multinational Eldorado Gold very publicly…
The embattled Greek government on Wednesday said three pending licenses for the Olympiada mining complex will be issued the next day, a significant development that comes after Canadian multinational Eldorado…
A closely watched session of Greece’s Central Archaeological Council (KAS) scheduled for Tuesday was called off, meaning no decision was taken for the Helleniko project – billed as the biggest…
Hellas Gold workers made good on their threat to target state buildings without warning, as a group of miners broke into the environment and energy ministry in central Athens on…
Greece’s relevant minister on Tuesday took aim at one of only a handful of landmark privatizations finalized under the current leftist-rightist coalition government’s watch, saying the consortium that took over…
No less than 106 college students at a university in western Greece handed in an identical assignment last June, according to the Athens daily “Kathimerini” on Tuesday.
The assignment was…
The Netherlands’ ambassador to Greece Caspar Veldkamp and the CEO of FrieslandCampina Hellas Konstantinos Maggioros hosted a dinner in honor of Greek Economy Minister Dimitri Papadimitriou on Monday evening.
The chairman of…
Moody’s Investors Service commented that Eldorado Gold Corporation’s announcement that it plans to suspend investment in its assets in Greece is credit negative but has no immediate impact on the…
By N. Bellos [email protected]
An exit of foreign companies from Greece would complicate efforts by creditors and partners to restore the country’s credibility and to again lure investments back to…
Monday’s abrupt decision by a Canadian multinational to suspend operations in recession-battered Greece in the face of systemic delays it blames on state opposition to its mining activities generated a…
The international fallout, as least as the press is concerned, from Monday’s abrupt announcement by Eldorado Gold that it is suspending its Greece operations mostly touched on the effect the…
Monday’s announcement by Canadian multinational Eldorado Gold that it was suspending operations in Greece because of regulatory hurdles was angrily by the leftist-rightist coalition in Athens, with the main opposition…
One of the biggest Mycenaean-era engraved tombs discovered in recent decades has been pinpointed near the south-central Greece town of Orhomenos, the modern-day placename for the ancient settlement of Orchomenus.…
Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Djisselbloem will arrive in Athens on Sept. 25 for a meeting with Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos.
The report comes a day before creditors’ auditors are expected…
The sudden but not altogether surprise announcement by Eldorado Gold on Monday that it was suspending its subsidiary’s operations in Greece – due to systemic foot-dragging by Greek government, as…
By L. Kalamara [email protected]
Mining giant Eldorado Gold announced on Monday that it will suspend its operations in Greece, following what it called three months of unsuccessful negotiations and talks…
The head of China Development Bank (CDB), Wang Jining, on Saturday signed a MoC with the president of Greece’s state-run power utility, the Public Power Corp. (PPC), Emmanuil Panagiotakis, on…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras inaugurated the 82nd Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) in the northern Greece metropolis on Saturday, the biggest trade exhibition in the country and the venue for…
It was ESM Managing Director Klaus Regling’s turn on Saturday to repeat European creditors’ constant message to Athens, namely: keep implementing agreed to reforms and debt relief is on the…
By Vassilis Kostoulas [email protected]
Paris will continue pushing for an ambitious implementation of last year’s Eurogroup decision regarding debt relief, as long as Athens continues to meet its commitments regarding…
The Hellenic Space Technologies and Applications Cluster (si-Cluster) this week signed an extension of a bilateral strategic agreement with the famed Aerospace Valley cluster in France, a cooperative that includes…
Vassilis Kostoulas [email protected]
French President Emmanuel Macron stayed “on message” again on Friday during the second day of his official visit to Athens, emphasizing that Greece needs debt relief but…
