Greece’s largest employers’ federation this week released figures showing that the ratio between the non-active (homemakers, juveniles, the elderly, unemployed people) and active population in the Greece is two to…
Greek FinMin Euclid Tsakalotos on Friday forecast that his government will not need to take additional austerity measures in 2018, speaking hours after an informal Eurogroup meeting in Tallinn.
Figures…
The initial results from Friday’s informal Eurogroup meeting in Tallinn, as far as bailout-dependent Greece is concerned, include the European Central Bank’s opposition to a standing IMF demand for an…
By V. Kostoulas [email protected]
European Investment Bank (EIB) officials this week referred to the size and scope of proposals for prospective inclusion in its investment schemes, especially the so-called Juncker…
By L. Karageorgos [email protected]
London apparently still remains a magnet for Greek-controlled ocean-going shipping, despite the specter of “Brexit”, with the head of the Union of the Greek Shipowners telling…
International Monetary Fund (IMF) spokesman Gerry Rice on Thursday confirmed that the Fund considers that new austerity measures in still bailout-dependent Greece may be possible.
He also said an Asset…
A furor over failure to fully contain an oil spill from a small tanker that sank under mysterious circumstances in the early morning hours Sunday off the greater Athens area…
The inaugural ‘EAEU–Greece: A New Bridge for Cooperation and Development’business forum’, which within the framework of the Thessaloniki International Fair-Helexpo (TIF) 2017 was concluded in the northern Greece city this week.…
By G. Kampourakis
An off-the-record briefing by top finance ministry officials on Wednesday revealed that the ministry’s leadership considers the goal for concluding the third review of the current bailout…
One unanswered question casting a shadow over official and unofficial Athens prior to negotiations to conclude the third review of the ongoing bailout program is whether current Finance Minister Euclid…
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…
