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The 1999 stock market crash case was re-opened by the Areios Pagos, Greece’s Supreme Court, as the judges believed that the acquittal lacked sufficient legal justification. They ordered that the case be retried from scratch.

Greece’s data room is ready to welcome investors who are interested in the research and exploitation of hydrocarbons in three offshore areas: Southwest and West of the island of Crete, and the Ionian Sea. But the doors of the data room will not open until two international tenders for three offshore blocks are published in […]

Tsipras is scheduled to have a working breakfast with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris tomorrow morning, amidst reports of French interest in Greek privatisation projects.

A report by the German financial daily Handelsblatt had words of praise for the fiscal performance of the Greek government. The report predicted that 2018 may be an exceptional year for Greece, and that the aim is for the country to stand on its own feet by the end of August. “For the third straight […]

Two days before the scheduled EU Justice and Home Affairs Council on 12 October in Luxembourg, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière sent a letter to the European Commission requesting the temporary re-institution of border checks at its land border with Austria, and for passengers traveling on airplane flights from Greece. The legal basis of […]

The fact that Prime Minister Tsipras demanded a postponement of the debate on the Saudi munitions deal to be there in person means he will defend his junior partner to the end.

There is a major upswing in reservations for vacations in Greece for next summer, according to the Thomas Cook Group,

“How long can the ruling coalition of Alexis Tsipras and Panos Kammenos last?” That is the question posed these days by many in Greece's political halls of power.

The German interior ministry asserted that the cause for the distinction against Greek nationals is the fact that about 1,000 passengers arriving at German airports from Greece between January and October, 2017, presented false travel documents.

The inability to form a government in Berlin is cause for heightened political anxiety in Athens, which fears impediments in achieving its long-awaited debt reprofiling.

Public debt is expected to increase by 13.7 billion euros in the first months of 2018, according to the budget tabled in parliament yesterday by the government.

In terms of taxes and excessive surpluses we are doing just fine, but in terms of economic growth we constantly fall short of projections, despite the burst of optimism that has overtaken the government. The 2018 budget that was tabled in parliament yesterday follows the same prescription as did those over the last years. One […]

The budget tabled in parliament projects a hefty 3.8 percent primary surplus for 2018, which exceeds the 3.5 percent to which the government had agreed with creditors.

The German financial daily Handelsblatt had words of praise for Greece’s fiscal performance in the context of its bailout memorandums.

In a new, positive sign for the Greek economy, travel receipts for September marked an increase of over 15 percentage points over the same month last year. The fresh data was reported today by the Bank of Greece, the country’s central bank, in a bulletin which provides details on the balance of travel services, travel […]

Speaking during debate on the bill on social welfare hand-outs yesterday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made clear that his strategy is “the best defense is a strong offense”.

The fiscal measures of the third bailout memorandum evaluation end with the tabling in parliament of the harsh 2018 state budget, which provides for a primary surplus of 3.5 percent of GDP until 2022 and for redistribution and cuts in social welfare benefits. Benefits will be cut back for families with three or more children, […]

The successful conclusion of the process of choosing a leader for the new centre-left Democratic Alliance (Dimokratiki Symparataxi) creates new realities on the broader political stage. The mass participation of members and friends in the electoral process is the best starting point for the organisational and political reconstitution of this part of the political spectrum. […]

Greece’s state privatisation fund today announced two concessions of at least 35 years each, for the major marina of Alimos, on the outskirts of Athens, and the marina of the island of Chios, in the eastern Aegean.

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos defended the government’s “social dividend” handouts to poor taxpayers, in debate ahead of today's parliamentary vote.