Powerless to stop a deal Greece made to for a newly-named North Macedonia, former defense minister Panos Kammenos said it should be called off because of what he claimed were repeated violations of...
After withering criticism that it would open Greece seasides to runaway unlawful buildings, a bill pushed by the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA to legalize the structures has been changed to take away a...
17/04/2019
The Greek government says it is in talks with European bailout lenders to repay its debts to the International Monetary Fund early as market borrowing rates tumbled to their lowest level since 2005...
16/04/2019
With tensions remaining high over the Aegean, envoys from Greece’s and Turkey’s foreign ministries met here formally for the first time in 18 months to talk about ways to de-escalate anxieties...
15/04/2019
The Greek unemployment rate edged up to 18.5 pct of the workforce in January, from 18.4 pct in December 2018, but was down from 20.6 pct in January 2018, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on...
12/04/2019
The Athens Airport “El. Venizelos” won the first prize in the category ‘Over 20m pax’ (+20 million passengers per annum) at the Routes Europe 2019 awards held in Hanover on Tuesday...
11/04/2019
Greek corruption prosecutors said they can’t find evidence against nine of 10 rival politicians accused by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of “the biggest scandal since the establishment of the Greek...
10/04/2019
Hundreds of migrants who flocked to Greece’s border with North Macedonia in a desperate rush to get to other European Union countries and escape long detention went there after a false post by a pro-...
09/04/2019
Greece’s former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, who was ousted after clashing with the country’s creditors, said Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras considered having safe...
08/04/2019
A new law passed by the Greek Parliament on the revision of household insolvency legislation (so-called Katseli law), which tightens criteria for the eligibility of borrowers to obtain protection...
05/04/2019