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.…
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…
