By N. Bellos
A closely-watched EuroWorking Group session that convened on Tuesday to examine the repercussions of a recently announced one-off bonus to Greek pensioners on the country’s bailout program…
By Lambros Karageorgos [email protected]
The Angelicoussis Shipping Group is expanding its activity in the liquefied natural gas transport sector with the recent order of a floating storage and regasification unit…
Greece’s largest social security fund (IKA) this week pinpointed the average monthly salary for part-time employees in the country at below 400 euros, with the latest figures emanating from April…
The Greek capital, Athens, is among the top 17 holiday destinations for 2017, according to the prestigious US travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler.
Canada gets top billing in the magazine’s…
German press reports this week referred to a “tense climate” between Athens and institutional creditors over the issue of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) presence in the Greek program (third…
Payment of arrears owed by the state towards the private sector were reduced by 1.138 billion euros in November 2016, falling from 3.38 billion euros to 2.242 billion euros, according…
The Russian embassy in Athens on Tuesday announced that a book of condolences will be opened at the historical building of the Russian representation in Greece — 7, Irodou Attikou…
By D. Hatzinikolas
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will be on a tour of the large island of Crete on Tuesday when the EWG is set to offer an opinion…
The extreme northeast Aegean island of Samothrace was the “cherry on the cake” of the leftist Greek government’s decision — mostly supported by the opposition in Parliament — to suspend…
An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale was recorded on Tuesday morning, with the epicenter west of the Dodecanese island of Nisyros.
The quake was recorded a few minutes…
Special anti-corruption magistrates have calculated the monetary damages for the Greek state from the 2002 sale of the Skaramangas shipyards (Hellenic Shipyards S.A.) to the German consortium HDW/Ferrstaal at 53…
Official Greece’s condemnation of the shocking assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey on Monday was swiftly conveyed over Twitter.
“Greece unequivocally condemns the heinous murder of #Russia’s Ambassador to #Turkey.…
By Teti Igoumenidi [email protected]
The Greek state’s “Sisyphean” task of finally establishing a unified and functional land registry (cadastre) in the country has reportedly entered yet another crucial junction, with…
The latest instance of Turkish warplanes entering the Athens FIR without a flight plan turned into over-flights of a couple of small Greek islets in the eastern Aegean on Monday,…
By N. Bellos
The Euro-Working Group (EWG) will convene on Tuesday afternoon to again examine the issue of short-term debt relief measures for Greece, whose processing and, more importantly, implementation,…
By A. Doga
The Bank of Greece (BoG) this week warned that only three out of 100 (3 percent) restructured loans remain serviced afterwards, just one of several indices presented…
A precautionary automatic “cutter” for state spending during execution of the coming 2017 budget will reportedly be activated by the General Accounting Office with the advent of the new year,…
By A. Doga
Non-performing exposures (NPEs) continue to attract the undiminished interest and concern of the Bank of Greece (BoG), which last week announced a stabilization in the sector and…
Main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday again referred to the need for a major political change in Greece, one that will allow for a “radical restart”, as…
By T. Tsiros
Expectations for a conclusion of the now delayed second review of the Greek program (third bailout) now aim for January 2017, as the most recent round of…
European Stability Mechanism (ESM) managing director Klaus Regling on Saturday appeared to backtrack slightly from his initial position regarding a surprise holiday bonus announced by the Greek premier for pensioners,…
“The old Tsipras has returned”, was the way Der Spiegel described the Greek prime minister one-day visit to Berlin for a closely watched meeting with the German chancellor.
The major…
Corporate tax rates for previously untaxed profits that legal entities operating in Greece will voluntarily disclose will vary from 21.6 percent to a maximum 52.5 percent, according to provisions of…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reportedly touched on his leftist government’s ongoing row with the IMF and the latter’s repeated warnings of leaving the Greek bailout program, in talks in…
By N. Bellos
The course of the Greek program in the wake of a conclusion of talks between the Greek side and institutional creditors’ representatives was the subject of Friday’s…
By N. Bellos
The course of the Greek program in the wake of a conclusion of talks between the Greek side and institutional creditors’ representatives was the subject of Friday’s…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated on Friday, albeit in an affable tone, that decisions on the Greek bailout program are not taken in Berlin but at the Eurogroup setting, a…
The Bank of Greece’s (BoG) interim report for monetary policy on Friday echoed European creditors in citing risks for achieving fiscal targets due to the recent and surprise announcement of…
The latest flare-up in Greek-German relations came this week when authorities in both countries confirmed that a teenage Afghan man sentenced to jail in Greece in 2014 for attempted homicide…
Expectations from Friday’s scheduled meeting in Berlin between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and visiting Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras are low, according to a report by DW the same day.…
