By V. Vegiri
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The Court of Audit this week approved the concession contract for the privatization of the Thessaloniki Port Authority by a consortium comprised of DIEP -Terminal Link-Belterra, which…
IMF’s European department director Poul Thomsen on Tuesday said a debt sustainability analysis for the Greek debt is ready and has already been sent to the Fund’s executive board members.…
The Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) on Tuesday announced that its chairman, George Michelis, has tendered his resignation to the Greek finance minister.
In a press release sent out by…
Several works by Israeli artist Ruthi Helbitz Cohen and by new artists will be on display at the exhibition “Inspire Project 2017: A Deed Without a Name”, which opens on…
The long-standing Cyprus issue took center-stage in Greece’s Parliament on Tuesday morning with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras briefing MPs over the recent – and ultimately failed – UN-brokered negotiations…
A Greece-based company active in the synthetic voice technology sector has been purchased by Korean electronics giant Samsung. No figures were released for the agreement, although both sides, Samsung and…
ESM Managing Director Klaus Regling on Monday referred to a “good time” at present to facilitate Greece’s future foray into the capital markets, speaking at Monday’s Eurogroup meeting in Brussels.…
The recently departed president of Greece’s supreme court, Vassiliki Thanou, will assume the prime minister’s legal office, a relevant press release announced on Monday afternoon.
Thanou, who was obliged to…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke with US Vice-President Mike Pence on Monday, with the latest developments in negotiations over the long-standing Cyprus issue discussed.
According to a press release…
A current Cabinet member on Monday confirmed that controversial Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis did, in fact, present a “voucher payment” plan to ministers back in 2015, near the climax…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced the completion of a 150-million-euro financing agreement with Greece-based Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications SA, with financing aimed to boost the telecoms provider’s 4G/4G+ mobile broadband…
Rioting was reported at a temporary shelter on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, the hardest hit Greece’s islands from the roughly two-and-a-half-year refugee/migrant crisis that has witnessed upwards of…
The Euro zone’s European Stability Mechanism (ESM) confirmed on Monday that 7.7 billion euros, out of a total tranche of 8.5 billion euros, flowed into Greek state coffers.
“Related to…
By K. Deligiannis & T. Igoumenidi
Greek environment and energy minister Giorgos Stathakis appeared optimistic over a handful of major “prior actions” that his ministry must oversee towards implementation, as…
The management of Thessaloniki’s private but state-subsidized urban bus network (OASTh) is reportedly considering various legal actions to block the stated nationalization of the mass transit monopoly in northern Greece’s…
The islands of the southern Aegean (i.e. mostly the Cyclades) and Crete were among the 30 most popular tourism destinations in the EU during 2015, the last year for which…
Greece’s tax bureau will commence a “receipt lottery” next month, with cash prizes awarded to randomly picked taxpayers and based on the amount of e-transactions they undertake.
The so-called receipt…
The third review of the Greek program (third bailout) now takes “center stage” in the ongoing bailout saga that will, if all goes as planned, end in August 2018.
In…
One of the biggest opinion poll leads enjoyed by main opposition Ne w Democracy (ND) party over ruling SYRIZA emerged over the weekend, with the former given a 14.8-percentage point…
By V. Vegiri [email protected]
Another hotel in Greece will come under the Zeus International management by the end of the year, part of an expanding partnership framework between the former…
A general assembly of Hellenic Petroleum (Hel.Pe) shareholders this week approved of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between the petrochemical group, the Greek state and the Hellenic Republic Asset Development…
The 29th international conference of philosophy commenced on the Dodecanese island of Rhodes began on Friday and will continue until Wednesday, with the theme of this year’s international and high-profile…
Tourism-related remittances reached 489 million over the first quarter of 2017, a decrease of 9.2 percent over the corresponding period of 2016, the Bank of Greece (BoG) announced on Friday,…
By J. Kanoupakis
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The Greek economy is moving within a projected growth orbit but at significantly slower rates than possible and desired, the Athens-based Foundation for Economic & Industrial…
The Council of State (Cos), Greece’s high administrative court, on Friday overruled a previous ministerial decision stipulating the terms and conditions for opening pharmacies in the country by non-pharmacists.
Operation…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras underwent a hernia operation on Friday at a private Athens clinic, according to a press release provided by his office.
Tsipras is due to address…
The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) on Friday approved the disbursement of 8.5 billion euros in bailout loan money to Greece, three weeks after the second review of the Greek program…
A relevant economy minister on Friday finally signed a decree freeing up state prohibitions on Sunday store hours in a handful of urban districts in both Athens and Thessaloniki, hours…
A 22-year-old American tourist was fatally beaten in the early morning hours of Friday at a tourist enclave in the town of Lagana, on the Ionian island of Zakynthos.
In…
Amid a wave of memorandum-mandated privatizations in still bailout-dependent Greece one entity in the country is apparently passing into state control: the urban bus system in the northern metropolis of…
