A relevant general assembly on Tuesday extended the operation of Greece’s privatization fund, the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), until June 1, 2020. HRADF’s sole shareholder is the Hellenic…
A telephone call between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday emerged on Wednesday, given that a strike called by press unions a day earlier…
Moody’s forecast GDP growth in 2017 at 1.5 percent, rising to 2 percent in 2018, while its outlook on Greek banks remained “stable”.
The forecast is a far cry from…
The finance ministry, as expected, on Monday unveiled its “road map” for a further loosening of capital controls in the country, nearly two years after the Tsipras government imposed the…
Fraport Greece on Friday presented its strategic development plan for the airport on Mykonos, the iconic Greek isle known as a jetsetters’ destination and one of the country’s major tourism…
Arrivals at Greek airports increased by 7.4 percent in 2016, compared with the previous year, the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) announced on Monday, citing data supplied by the Civil Aviation…
The naval command in Athens on Monday reported that two Turkish missile boats had entered Greek territorial waters the same day and approached the small eastern Aegean islet of Agathonissi…
Net revenues over the first four months of the year were off by 152 million euros from target, with the total standing at 14.567 billion euros, down from the prescribed…
By F. Zois [email protected]
A decades-old idea to commence regular seaplane routes towards Greece’s numerous islands and even coastal resorts appears to have resurfaced over the recent period, with nascent…
A peculiar burglary involving the theft of expensive diagnostic equipment from a public hospital specializing in cancer patients, and located across the street from the main police headquarters in Athens,…
By T. Tsiros [email protected]
The “cost” from the latest round of austerity measures and tax hikes in Greece reaches 5.396 billion euros over the 2018-2021 period, as calculated from provisions…
By A. Tsimplakis [email protected]
Chinese multinational Cosco, who assumed the management of the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) last August, is reportedly eyeing the privatization of pilot services in the wider…
By S. Papapetros
Greece’s General Accounting Office estimates the total savings from the latest round of proposed cuts in pensions and welfare subsidies over the 2019-2021 period to reach 7.125…
A charred body was recovered by firefighters battling a wildfire due west of Athens on Sunday at the bottom of a gorge in the Aghii Theodori settlement.
The blaze erupted…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras put his leftist government and the IMF “on the same page” as far as the country’s debt issue is concerned, taking to Twitter immediately after…
Τhe death toll from a late-night train derailment in northern Greece has risen to three, after another victim succumbed to injuries on Sunday morning.
Seventy passengers and a five-person crew…
The IMF was quick to issue a statement following a Sunday meeting in Beijing between the Fund’s Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, amid the ongoing…
Two dead and seven injured is the toll of a late-night train derailment in northern Greece, according to rail operator Trainose. Three of the injured are in critical condition.
An…
By T. Igoumenidi [email protected]
The latest “banana peel” thrown by a Greek state agency in front of a landmark privatization project came on Friday after a relevant forestry service designated…
The controversial previous Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, on Friday continued his verbal barrage against his former comrades in the current government and leftist SYRIZA party, forecasting that the third…
The controversial previous Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, on Friday continued his verbal barrage against his former comrades in the current government and leftist SYRIZA party, forecasting that the third…
Greek President Prokopris Pavlopoulos on Friday spoke by phone with outgoing French President Francois Hollande, with the former congratulating the latter over what he called the successful conclusion of the…
Government sources on Friday referred to meetings in Beijing on the same day between a top Greek delegation and officials of the China State Grid Corp., the state-run company that…
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Friday urged for more specific debt relief measures to be spelled out by European creditors, part of the Fund’s standing demand that the Greek…
By N. Bellos [email protected]
The Commission’s revised forecast for Greece in 2017 and 2018, translates into a loss of 1.1 billion euros this year and 900 million euros next year.…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will begin an official visit to China on Friday as a high-level participant in Beijing’s “Belt and Road” forum, where he’s set to hold separate…
By G. Kouros [email protected]
Greece’s newly created independent public revenues authority is planning to establish an automated system for seizures and property auctions after first establishing a interlinked database of…
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Thursday claimed that the leftist Greek government is considering a bond issue for later in the year – possibly July or September – on…
An IMF spokesman on Thursday reiterated that no deal has been achieved as yet regarding the Greek debt issue, a pressing matter over which the Fund has demanded medium-term relief…
By N. Bellos [email protected]
EU Commissioner Pierre Moscovici on Wednesday emphasized that Greek authorities had the initiative in composing the initial as well as the latest draft text governing the…
