Varoufakis on Brexit Negotiations, Ireland, Greece
Former Greece Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on “Bloomberg Markets: European Open.”(video) urged the UK not to fold under European Union demands for a Brexit payment, explaining they […]
Month: November 2017
Greek police arrest nine Turks ahead of Erdogan visit
DW — Anti-terror police squads found detonators and bomb-making equipment while searching three apartments in central Athens on Tuesday morning. Greek police arrested eight men […]
UK bows to EU demands with breakthrough offer on Brexit bill
FT — Britain has bowed to EU demands and agreed to fully honour its financial commitments as identified by Brussels, removing one of the biggest […]
Chinese zero in on Greek real estate
Nikkei Asian Review — Greece’s Golden Visa program, launched in 2013, entitles individuals who invest more than 250,000 euros in real estate to five-year resident permits. […]
ESM chief says Greek aid loan needs may be smaller than previously expected
Reuters – The head of the euro zone’s European Stability Mechanism (ESM) bailout fund has told a German newspaper that Greece was making good progress […]
Greek police arrest 7 for selling bogus olive oil
ctvnews.ca — A Greek prosecutor on Sunday charged seven people for fraudulently selling large quantities of adulterated sunflower oil as olive oil in Greece and […]
Rules laid out for taxation of short-term property lets
eKathimerini — The Independent Authority for Public Revenue on Friday announced a new process to declare income from short-term leasing, which is taxed at rates […]
2018 road tax application now on line
Road tax notices for 2018 are available at TAXIS net from today . Users can print out their forms and pay at the bank or online. To use […]
Greek pensioners protest against government that ‘took everything’
Reuters – Several hundred elderly Greeks marched through Athens on Thursday, protesting against a government they say “took everything” with a new round of cuts […]
Average spending per tourist on Greek holiday in 2017 at 536.3€; double for Spain
Naftemporiki — Figures released this week by the Bank of Greece (BoG) show that average spending per tourist on holiday in Greece over the first […]
Despite gloomy predictions, British manufacturing is booming
The Guardian — Order books for Britain’s factories are at their strongest for almost 30 years as the weak pound and strong global growth boosts […]
Europe 2017: Four in Ten children in Greece are at risk of poverty
The Europe 2020 strategy promotes social inclusion, through the reduction of poverty, by aiming to lift at least 20 million people out of the risk […]
EU ratifies more stringent Schengen regulations, will discuss treatment of flights from Greece
eKathimerini — Despite the public acrimony over the “humiliating” treatment reserved for travelers from Greece at German airports, the government has sought to downplay the […]
Greece probes central bank head over alleged leak
FT — Greece’s central bank governor is under investigation by an anti-corruption prosecutor over the alleged leaking of an auditor’s report on Piraeus Bank, a […]
Davis: “Putting politics above prosperity is never a smart choice”
Bloomberg / Evening Standard — U.K. Brexit Secretary David Davis addressed German businesses directly to help break the deadlock in the divorce talks as he […]