An eight-year-old boy and his nine-year-old sister suffered burns during an early-morning fire that erupted in a tent at a temporary refugee shelter in the Oreokastro township near Thessaloniki, northern…
Eurobank President Nikos Karamouzis on Monday underlined that a positive credit expansion in recession-battered Greece, something he said is imperative for growth, will not precede but will follow an economic…
Eight new Greek companies were awarded monetary sums this week by the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation, set up by easyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou.
This Awards for Young Entrepreneurs were announced during…
The board of directors of Piraeus Bank, one of four Greek systemic banks, appointed George Hatzinikolaou to the post of non-executive president on Tuesday afternoon.
Hatzinikolaou has previously worked for…
A noteworthy increase in the number of work-related accidents was recorded in Greece in 2014, up by 12.5 percent, yoy — the last year for which figures are available.
According…
The politically charged issue of social security reform in Greece is apparently returning to the agenda of negotiations between the leftist Greek government and institutional creditors, a particularly painful development…
The latest opinion poll, published this week, shows the biggest difference between ruling SYRIZA party and its main rival, center-right New Democracy, with the latter fielding a 24-percentage point lead…
Seven foreign distress funds have reportedly expressed an interest in assuming the management of an Attica Bank portfolio of non-performing (NPLs) totalling one billion euros.
The same reports cited a…
The research institute affiliated with Greece’s largest trade umbrella union, GSEE, on Tuesday referred to «high risks» entailed in any «quick» economic recovery and a return to international lending markets…
A trio of top Cabinet ministers was meeting on Tuesday to examine the issue of more than a dozen mostly non-essential bonuses and welfare stipends allocated by the state, benefits…
Greece’s association of tourism enterprises was the latest group this week to broach the question of how tourism-related revenue appears to have fallen in 2016 when arrivals reached near record-breaking…
Arrears to Greece’s beleaguered social security funds continue to accumulate at an accelerated pace, with a relevant state collection agency for pension contributions announcing this week that the figure is…
Next week a representative from the Greece-based frozen vegetable producer Barba Stathis as well as dairy and juices producer Delta Foods, both part of the Vivartia Group, will travel to…
The retail sector’s turnover fell in August 2016, Greece’s statistical bureau (EL.STAT) announced on Monday, confirming the downward trend throughout the year.
Turnover, both in terms of volume and value,…
Parliament’s Budget Office fired another salvo over the leftist government’s bow on Monday, expressing a more-or-less pessimistic forecast over Greek economic growth prospects for 2017, while at the same time…
Reuters reported on Monday afternoon that Azerbaijan’s state energy company Socar has renewed its letter of guarantee for Greece’s natural gas grid operator (DESFA) by one month.
The news agency…
By Vassilis Kostoulas [email protected]
A noted Greek economist and author told “N” this week that Greece’s striking fiscal adjustment over the last few years of an ongoing economic crisis is “not…
PepsiCo-HBH is the latest multinational to cease production operations in Greece, as a company announcement on Monday claimed that the closure of its last remaining unit aims to ensure the…
Political sniping between the leftist government and center-right main opposition continued unabated on Monday, with the latter pointing to a previously unknown trip by embattled Minister of State Nikos Pappas…
By G. Kouros
The Greek government has provisioned 2.65 billion euros in revenue in its draft 2017 budget from property tax (ENFIA) proceeds, meaning that the system for tax rates…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday called the current situation in Greece “extremely critical” and again reiterated his demand for snap elections in the still…
The leftist Greek government will reportedly proceed as planned with its nomination for an independent broadcasting authority, even in the face the opposition’s immediate rejection of the candidate, former New…
A glimmer of progress has apparently emerged in a long-delayed and oft-proposed project to build a new airport in Crete’s Irakleio prefecture, one of the prime tourism destinations in the…
Wind Hellas, one of the three mobile telephony operators in Greece, boosted liquidity over the recent period with a five-year bonded loan worth 250 million euros, while shareholder have agreed…
The fallout from a surprise offer by the leftist SYRIZA government to nominate a one-time New Democracy minister for the post of president of the country’s independent broadcast authority continued…
Former interim Parliament president and long-time conservative political cadre Vyron Polydoras is the leftist government’s surprise choice for president of a national radio-television council that oversees – under the constitution…
European Stability Mechanism (ESM) managing director Klaus Regling referred to a “road map” for Greek debt relief, pointing to the communique issued after a landmark Eurogroup meeting in May 2016,…
US Vice-President Joe Biden was quoted by the Cyprus News Agency on Thursday as saying that Barack Obama will touch on the increasing thorny issue of the Greek debt, during…
D-Marine Investments Holding BV, a subsidiary of Dogus Holding AS, and Temes SA, a development arm of the Costa Navarino resort of southwest Greece, are the new owners of the…
The Greek producers’ composite price index in the industrial sector (measuring both the domestic and external markets) fell 3.0 percent in September this year compared with the same period in…
