Greek Health Minister Andreas Xanthos this week called for better monitoring and “counter-incentives” to reduce the extremely high incidence of caesarean sections in the country, as a percentage of births.…
Two of the members of Russia’s controversial Pussy Riot rock group will be in Athens later this month for an appearance at the Onassis Cultural Centre.
The event, entitled “Who…
By A. Doga [email protected]
A pressing need to better manage Greek banks’ “bad loan” portfolios dominated the contacts that the chairwoman of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) supervisory board, and…
By M. Hatziconstantinou [email protected]
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) president Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday continued to hammer away at the embattled leftist Greek government, as yet another “unofficial deadline” to…
The finance ministry’s very tight spending practices at the beginning of 2017 emerged on Tuesday with the release of provisional data, amended on cash basis, which showed a 423-million-euros surplus…
Investors’ interest in private Greek medical clinics suddenly emerged this week with reports that the CVC Capital Partners fund will proceed with the purchase of 70 percent of Metropolitan Hospital…
By N. Bellos [email protected]
Although long-distance negotiations between the Greek government and institutional creditors’ top representatives are continuing to try and resolve differences blocking a conclusion to the second review…
Excavation works over the 2016 season at the Vergina archaeological site brought to light a wall dated to the Macedonian period, a development that long-time researchers of the specific dig…
Monday’s Eurogroup meeting agenda includes the issue of the Greek program’s review, the European Commission announced on Tuesday, while adding that recent developments regarding the now utterly delayed second review…
A report by the largest Greek union confederation this week shows a “two-speed” labor sector in Greece, with employees in the wider public sector enjoying, on average, higher wages and…
Βy Vassilis Kostoulas [email protected]
The average Greek citizen, eight years into an unprecedented post-war economic implosion, now wants a smaller state and lower taxes — cornerstones of a western liberal…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) continues to field “double score” leads over ruling SYRIZA party, with the latest opinion poll in Greece showing the center-right party ahead of the hard…
Wages in Greece declined by 3.1 percent, on average, every year in Greece from 2009 to 2016, according to a study published this week by the European Trade Union Confederation…
By Y. Kanoupakis [email protected]
The Greek government spokesman appeared confident on Monday that whatever new austerity measures will be enacted and simultaneously implemented with corresponding countervailing measures, with the latter…
Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem on Monday briefed the Dutch Parliament, in his capacity as the finance minister in the Netherlands, that Greece must exceed the primary budget surplus goals of…
Concerns that forecasts of GDP growth in the crisis-battered Greek economy are at risk have emerged even before the end of the first quarter of 2017, as the year figures…
Concerns that forecasts of GDP growth in the crisis-battered Greek economy are at risk have emerged even before the end of the first quarter of 2017, as the year figures…
By L. Karageorgos [email protected]
A bevy of upscale market hotel purchases have been recorded in Greece over the recent period, with market analysts pointing to a surge in tourism arrivals…
By A. Doga
Greece’s four systemic banks are expected to point to “macro-economic errors” and uncertainty, in tandem with a deficient institutional framework, as the primary reasons for failure to…
Aegean announced another cancellation of its flight to/from Berlin’s Tegel Airport on Monday, March 13, due to a strike called by ground crews and other airport personnel.
The affected flights…
Emirates on Sunday inaugurated its highly-anticipated Dubai-Athens-Newark Liberty (New York City metro area) route, with flight EK209 landing at Athens International Airport (AIA) to pick up passengers before continuing for…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party continued to enjoy a comfortable double-digit lead against ruling SYRIZA party in the latest opinion poll published in the country.
Specifically, ND was preferred…
A detailed contract between Greek Police (EL.AS) and the German-Greek consortium set to acquire a 40-year concession for the management of 14 provincial airports around Greece was finalized and signed late…
The IMF’s leadership continued to emphasize the point that Greece’s debt, under current conditions, is not sustainable, with the Fund’s European department director, Poul Thomsen, adding that reforms are not…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) president Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday toured the 2017 Oenorama exhibition of Greek wines, where he referred to his party’s commitment to the country’s viticulture and…
The IMF on Friday referred to the previous day’s briefing by its spokesman to reiterate that its executive council has not discussed the Fund’s renewed participation in the ongoing Greek…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) accused Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of “impudence and hypocrisy” on Friday, in the wake of statements attributed to the latter requesting from IMF Managing…
Successive months of deflation in Greece were succeeded by a second straight month of inflation in February 2017, as a “tax tsunami” imposed in 2016 — which included VAT hikes,…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday told EU counterparts that the crisis-battered country does not need continuing austerity, but rather a boost in its growth prospects.
The increasingly embattled…
Parliament’s independent General Budget Office on Friday issued another high-profile warning regarding the still shrinking Greek economy, saying any recovery “will not be automatic”.
The service, which is not under…
