Greece’s central bank on Thursday announced that deposits in domestic banks by households and non-profit institutions increased by 771 million euros in June, compared with a decrease of 214 million…
FT on Wednesday reported that Greece’s five-year, three-billion-euro bond on Tuesday was the fifth most-traded euro-denominated sovereign debt in Europe.
According to the international media provider, in an article bylined…
The latest instance of anarchist-related violence occurred on Wednesday evening when between 10 to 15 sledge hammer-wielding perpetrators smashed ticket dispensers and validation machines at the Perissos electric train (ΙSAP)…
Greece’s federation of property owners, known by its Greek-language acronym of POMIDA, this week charged that the government is attempting to impose what called “predatory” tax rates on short-term leases,…
Two bodies were recovered from the wreckage of a small plane that went down overnight outside the central Greece city of Larissa.
The two victims had taken off with the…
Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, arrived in the Ionian island of Corfu on Wednesday afternoon for a holiday stay at the Rothschild estate.
The…
The leftist government is expected to submit a draft bill in September that will reportedly prescribe the imposition of heavy fines against the owners of private vehicles used to transport…
By K. Deligiannis
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The management of the state-run Public Power Corp. (PPC) on Tuesday unveiled a plan to expand activities to neighboring Turkey, the biggest electricity market in the…
An across-the-board interview by the IMF’s mission chief for Greece to “N” this week apparently “ruffled feathers” in Athens, with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras charging that the people “who…
An across-the-board interview by the IMF’s mission chief for Greece to “N” this week apparently “ruffled feathers” in Athens, with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras charging that the people “who…
The New Acropolis Museum, the country’s most popular and cutting-edge museum, will again mark August’s full moon with special events.
Entrance is free.
An evening concert is scheduled for Monday…
The relevant finance ministry on Wednesday is reportedly considering a “silent” extension of a deadline for all retail businesses to install electronic transaction terminals (POS) on their premises.
A circular…
The EBRD on Wednesday signed an inaugural project under its new framework for renewable energy in Greece by subscribing to €28.3 million in bonds issued by Hellenic Petroleum, Greece’s biggest…
Parliament’s independent Budget Office on Wednesday referred to a “positive development” with the previous day’s first exit by the Greek state to test sovereign debt markets in three years.
In…
Hellenic Petroleum (Hel.Pe) on Wednesday announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Hel.Pe Finance Plc, successfully issued new notes priced at 74.5 million euros, which will be consolidated and form a…
A union representing culture ministry employees has chosen the upcoming weekend, amid the height of the ongoing summer tourism season, to announce a 48-strike at museums and archaeological sites in…
The Greek state’s “debut” in international sovereign debt markets on Tuesday drained three billion euros out of the four billion-euro target it said it wanted, although the overall development was…
By Vassilis Kostoulas [email protected]
Greece’s testing of the markets must adhere closely with the current program’s objectives and targets, as the Greek side still has a “full agenda” of reforms…
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos expressed his satisfaction with the results of a five-year bond issue concluded on Tuesday, the first by the bailout-dependent Greek state since 2014, months before…
Greek government sources on Tuesday referred to an “absolute success” and a confirmation of the positive course of the Greek economy, immediately after a five-year bond issue offering concluded with…
By T. Tsiros [email protected]
VAT remittance targets for the first half of the year were mostly achieved on the back of the successful completion of a concession transferring the management…
Greece will price its five-year benchmark bond issue with a 4.625-percent yield, according to numerous press reports in the afternoon.
The order book also exceeds 6.5 billion euros, including 156.8…
Reuters put the interest rate for Greece’s five-year euro benchmark bond sale are at above 5.5 billion euros, citing its sources.
According to the news agency, the figure includes orders…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras referred to the successful, as he said, return of the bailout-dependent country to the capital markets on Tuesday with a same-day rollover five-year bond issue,…
Yanis Varoufakis on Tuesday aimed squarely at the same-day first foray by the Greek state into the markets since 2014, headlining – on the Greek-language side – an online post…
The first estimates on Tuesday morning (Athens time) put a yield on the same-day five-year bond issue that Athens will float at 4.875 percent, according to banks acting as joint…
Minerva Marine has chosen RINA, the Italian classification, certification, testing and inspection company, to certify its compliance with the EU’s Monitoring, Reporting, Verification (MRV) regulation.
Minerva, a Greek-controlled company, manages…
By V. Vegiri [email protected]
The management of the state-run Alexandroupolis Port Authority, a small but very strategic port in extreme northeast Greece, this week reported that an international tender to…
A MoU was signed in Bucharest last week between Greece’s natural gas transmission system operator (DES.FA) with its Bulgarian, Romanian and Hungarian counterparts – Bulgartransgaz, Transgaz and FGSZ, respectively –…
Influential German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble calls the Greek crisis in the summer of 2015 the most dramatic crisis in the last four years of his tenure at the post.…
