Archaeologists in the northern city of Thessaloniki on Thursday are expected to announce that they have pinpointed the tomb of one of Classical antiquity’s pre-eminent philosophers, none other than Aristotle.…
By G. D. Pavlopoulos
The head of international relations for Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told “N” this week that Tehran is against the declaration of an autonomous Kurdish…
A bevy of open issues remain unresolved in the wake of Tuesday’s approval by the Eurogroup of the first review for the Greek program, particularly in terms of a much…
The government is eying changes to the income tax code to allow for greater deductions based on electronic transactions – as opposed to cash purchase receipts – as well as…
By Klaus Schrader, David Benček, Claus-Friedrich-Laaser Kiel Institute for the World Economy, IfW
In 2014, there was evidence that Greece’s economic situation would take a turn for the better for the first…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is scheduled to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday, on the sidelines of a European Peoples Party (EPP) event in…
Two British analysts answer Naftemporiki’s question: Should Britain leave the EU?
By Vassilis Kostoulas [email protected] @VasKostoulas
Britain should not leave the EU – it should lead the EU
By Edward Douglas …
A pilot program that allows for the issuance of tourist visas for tourists arriving from Turkey on several eastern Aegean islands has been extended for another year.
The islands of…
The Lonely Planet website this week ranked the Peloponnese, Greece’s southern-most mainland province, as its top European destination for 2016.
The iconic print and Internet travel group describes the Peloponnese…
Greece’s finance ministry now takes center stage in the wake of Tuesday’s late-night approval of the first review of the Greek program, with the goal none other than meeting fiscal…
By A. Doga
Potential benefits of between 400 and 500 million euros per year for Greece’s battered banking sector is one result that is expected from the first review of…
By N. Bellos
A delayed first review of the Greek program (third bailout) was finally concluded after yet another all-night session at the Eurogroup in Brussels, with the highlights being…
The Eurogroup welcomes that a full staff-level agreement has been reached between Greece and the institutions. Also, the Eurogroup notes with satisfaction that the Greek authorities and the European institutions…
Former of Bank of Greece (BoG) governor Giorgos Provopoulos on Tuesday warned that he still doesn’t see the “light at the end of the tunnel”, referring to the ongoing Greek…
Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos generated a firestorm of political controversy on Tuesday with a statement from the island of Syros, where he said, among others, that a recent increase…
Greece-based Energean Oil & Gas has unveiled a hydrocarbons exploitation plan of up to 60 million euros to exploit a deposit off southwest mainland Greece, at the Katakolo site.
The…
A weekly review of the Greek economy by domestic lender Eurobank cites lower private consumption, exports and labor productivity as the reasons behind the re-emergence of a recessionary trend in…
By D. Hatzinikolas
Institutional lenders have reportedly asked the leftist Greek government for clarifications regarding the creation of a so-called “social solidarity fund”, which was announced by the Greek prime…
A long-expected evacuation of a makeshift refugee camp at the Idomeni site on Greece’s northern border began on Tuesday, with the first of 600 third country nationals transported out of…
The Eurogroup meeting on Tuesday in Brussels will, by all accounts, sign off on the first review of the Greek program (third bailout) and unblock up to 10 billion euros…
Greek tourism is apparently the beneficiary of fewer reservations by German tourists in the rival markets of Turkey and Egypt this season, according to a Bank of Greece (BoG) study…
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Greece this week, his first trip to an EU country in more than a year.
The powerful Russian head of state will meet with…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday, speaking from Istanbul, said progress in legally relocating thousands of Mideast refugees throughout Europe has been “extremely” sluggish.
Tsipras was in the Bosporus…
National Bank and the Israeli embassy in Athens announced a new program to advise Greek entrepreneurs, with the initiative set to begin on June 1.
The program is part of…
The Greek government is reportedly examining the possibility of a second wave of privatizations for regional airports around the country, following the signing of an agreement earlier in the year…
The latest painful batch of austerity measures, passed by a slim majority of Parliament MPs on Sunday evening, may still not completely cover memorandum-mandated fiscal targets, with a “hole” of…
A voluminous tax bill passed by the government majority on Sunday evening includes stipulations for the operation of companies managing non-performing loans in Greece, with the firms coming under an…
An omnibus bill loaded with indirect tax hikes and legislation creating a “supra privatization fund” was passed by the coalition government majority on Sunday, with 153 deputies in the 300-MP…
The government took two, albeit small, steps back from a tax-laden draft bill over the weekend that completes a 5.4-billion-euro package of austerity measures aimed at meeting memorandum fiscal targets…
The leftist Greek government was scrambling on Sunday to find “off-set” measures after tabling an amendment on Friday freezing so-called “special wage” categories in the wider public sector until 2018,…
