An increasingly combative Yanis Varoufakis responded within hours on Monday to a high-profile interview of Greek PM Alexis Tsipras in the “Guardian”, using the same outlet’s electronic pages to disparage…
Greece’s first market exit after three years was announced on Monday by the coalition government in Athens, which announced an invitation to holders of outstanding bonds worth 4.75 percent, in…
A simmering feud between the leftist-rightist coalition government and a high-profile segment of the country’s independent judiciary continued unabated on Monday, with the president of the Council of State (CoS)…
The Greek government has commenced the licensing process for the EuroAsia Interconnector, after a complete project dossier was submitted.
The project envisions the laying of an underwater power cable of…
Greece’s Alexis Tsipras this week offered a “mea culpa” over the his and his leftist-rightist coalition government’s failings since he rode to power in January 2015 on a populist wave…
By T. Tsiros
The first serious “litmus test” that the 2017 budget is being successfully executed comes within the next few days, as a deadline for paying the first installment…
Greece won the 2017 men’s U20 European Championship on Sunday evening in a packed arena in Irakleio, Crete, beating Israel 65-56 in the final.
The Greek team had downed reigning champions…
The “bad blood” between Yianis Varoufakis and his former comrades in ruling SYRIZA party continues to boil over amid a steady stream of passages being published by local media from…
The body of a missing seven-year-old Syrian child was discovered in the waters off a coastal industrial district where a refugee shelter is located in extreme western Athens.
An “Amber…
Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis’ “tell-tale” book about his six-month tenure in office and the run-up to leftist SYRIZA’s landslide election victory continues to generate intense scrutiny by the…
The scrutiny that fell this week on the IMF’s debt ceiling provision, and especially on the way it affects the Fund’s participation in the Greek program, belies the fact that…
S&P extended a much-needed fillip towards the Greek government on Friday by revising its outlook to positive from stable, a day after the IMF extended a paltry “precautionary” line of…
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde explained the Fund’s “balancing act” on Thursday in agreeing to a conditional 1.6-billion-euro “precautionary stand-by arrangement” for bailout-dependent Greece, saying the program emphasizes implementation of…
Fraport Greece on Friday morning assured that the airport on the quake-hit island of Kos is operating normally and safely for passengers and flights.
The German-Greek consortium, which manages…
More than 2.5 million taxpayers in Greece are expected to receive income tax invoices showing additional taxes owed to the state, based on the number of electronic filings made so…
The two victims of a strong early-morning earthquake that struck the island of Kos were identified as two men, a Turkish national, 39, and a Swedish national, 22.
Moreover, five…
Two earthquake-related fatalities were reported on the island of Kos in the early morning hours of Friday, while several people were injured from the strong 6.4 on the Richter scale…
A pair of strong earthquakes measuring 6.4 and 5.1 on the Richter scale, respectively, were recorded in the early morning hours of Friday east of the Dodecanese island of Kos,…
The IMF announced a “precautionary” credit line for still bailout-dependent Greece on Thursday, with a Tweet on the Fund’s official account citing a “Stand-By Arrangement” worth 1.6 billion euros.
The…
An IMF spokesman on Thursday referred directly to a debt ceiling that the Fund calculates for still bailout-dependent Greece, in the wake of numerous press reports this past week claiming…
The inaugural sale of a portfolio of “bad debt” held by Greece’s systemic banks is expected in early August, with the initial cache reportedly being non-performing consumer loans extended by…
Excavation and restoration works on a tiny islet west of Antiparos, itself a well-known speck of land in the central Aegean, has revealed the foundations of a temple that archaeologists…
Several violations by Turkish warplanes were reported in the southeastern Aegean on Thursday, while in two instances the fighter planes were armed, according to Greek military authorities.
Specifically, a two-plane…
European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi told reporters in Frankfurt on Thursday that it’s up to the Greek government when to decide on a return to the bond markets…
The European Central Bank’s (ECB) governing council on Thursday lowered an emergency funding cap – the Emergency Liquidation Assistance (ELA) mechanism — for Greek banks by 1.1 billion euros to…
The ECB kept interest rates unchanged, following a Thursday meeting in Frankfurt of the Euro zone central bank’s governing council.
No Greece-linked issues were on the agenda at Thursday’s meeting,…
The Greek statistical service on Thursday announced that the general government primary budget surplus for the first quarter of 2017 reached 529 million euros, down from a surplus of 1.944…
By T. Igoumenidi
An environmental impact study covering the commercial exploitation of the Helleniko site in coastal southeast Athens was unveiled this week for public debate.
The 1,332-page study includes…
By T. Tsiros [email protected]
The Greek government is reportedly fielding low expectations from Thursday’s meeting of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) executive board, at least according to off-the-record comments by…
By K. Deligiannis [email protected]
Earlier forecasts of increased interest by private providers active in the domestic electricity market were confirmed on Wednesday with the latest NOME auction, as the majority…
