The European Commission on Wednesday announced that it has ruled that a new Greek support scheme for renewable electricity and high efficiency cogeneration complies with EU state aid rules. The…
Hours after Barack Obama repeated his leitmotif of “reforms and debt relief” before a Greek audience, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble again dampened Athens’ hopes by saying that such discussion…
Seven violations of national airspace were reported on Wednesday in the central and northeast Aegean region, with Greek air force planes and military radars identifying at least 11 Turkish warplanes.…
Barack Obama was given a rock star-like welcome before his address at a new cultural multiplex in coastal Athens on Wednesday, where he responded with a “Kalispera” (good afternoon in…
Creditors’ representatives and the Greek government have reportedly covered most of the distance separating the two sides in terms a new out-of-court regime to settle arrears and self-employed professionals’ debts…
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday toured and was photographed atop the Acropolis in the heart of Athens and with the Parthenon in the background, the quintessence of Classical Antiquity…
The head of the ECB’s supervisory board, Danièle Nouy, this week emphasized that whatever measures to manage and begin reducing the Olympus-sized mountain of non-performing loans (NPLs) in Greece does…
US President Barack Obama was scheduled to tour the Acropolis, in central Athens, on Wednesday morning, with Greece’s best-known and most-visited archaeological site closed to the public in anticipation of…
Barack Obama’s high-profile visit to the Greece on Tuesday was the catalyst for the latest instances of late-night street violence around the Athens Polytechnic by self-styled anarchist and anti-establishment gangs,…
New Greek Labor Minister Efi Ahtsioglou has reportedly briefed representatives of creditors on the government’s positions regarding labor sector reforms, easily the most difficult chapter of negotiations to conclude a…
US President Barack Obama was attending an official dinner in his honor on Tuesday evening at Athens’ presidential mansion, hours after concluding meetings with the country’s president and prime minister.…
Barack Obama’s “swan song” as the US president came with encouraging words to crisis-plagued Greece on Tuesday, where he offered support for debt relief, praise for painful reforms over the…
US President Barack Obama praised Greece for what he called the country’s “humanitarian and compassionate manner” in dealing with the unprecedented, by post-war standards, Mideast war refugee issue. His comments…
Obama received at the presidential mansion in central Athens by Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, expresses satisfaction over his visit to Greece. Refers to significance of visiting the land where democracy…
Outgoing US President Barack Obama the third US president to pay an official visit to Greece after Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959, George H. Bush in 1991 and Bill Clinton…
By Sophia Emmanouil [email protected]
Forget “Brexit”, highly qualified Greeks still retain an undiminished interest in moving to the United Kingdom for better job prospects, despite whatever uncertainties arising from the referendum,…
The Greek budget recorded a surplus of 1.306 billion euros over the January-October period, greatly improving from a shortfall of 793 million euros in the corresponding period in 2015, according…
By Giorgos Kouros [email protected]
The “tax tsunami” that began in 2016 as a result of the signing of the third memorandum will continue unabated in 2017, with highest VAT rates (13…
National Bank CEO Leonidas Fragiadakis, whose tenure as the top executive of Greece’s biggest financial institution has generated a fierce tug-of-war between the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund and the bank’s…
Thousands of police and a massive US security contingent will be on hand for the two-day visit to Athens this week by US President Barack Obama, with roads closed in…
A firestorm of controversy emerged in the wake of Sunday evening’s 1-1 tie between Greece and Bosnia-Herzegovina when it was reported that a small banner with a genocidal reference to…
The state-run Hellenic Sugar Industry SA will declare an international tender for its production units in Serbia by the end of November, CEO Pantelis Manis told the state news agency…
Aegean Airlines on Friday reported a 3-percent increase in consolidated revenue in the January-September 2016 period, and a 6-percent rise in passenger traffic to 9.8 million, according to the state-run…
Seasonally adjusted data for the third quarter of 2016 show an annualized GDP growth of 1.5 percent, the statistical bureau EL.STAT announced on Monday.
Moreover, Q3 growth increased by 0.5…
By A. Doga
A simmering feud between the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) and the management of National Bank of Greece (NBG), the country’s largest financial institution, appears ready to…
With arrears to the Greek state nearing the milestone 100-billion-euro mark the finance ministry’s general secretariat for public revenues is rapidly promoting the implementation of a comprehensive and fully automated…
Outgoing US President Barack Obama is sending his own message of support for the Greek government and Greek citizens, days before he arrives in Athens for a two-day visit.
In…
By N. Bellos
Unreservedly optimistic forecasts by the European Commission for the Greek economy in the current year and over the upcoming two years could smooth the way for a…
By T. Tsiros
High-level talks between the Greek government and representatives of institutional creditors (the Quartet) are set to resume on Tuesday or Wednesday in Athens, with crucial negotiations actually commencing…
Well-known Greek shipowner John Angelicoussis this week forecast a rebound the very recently roused dry bulk sector, calling it an “engine” for the global economy because, as he estimates, major…
