Tackling Pollution: Greece introduces Ecotax to reduce use of plastic bags
Sputnik – Greece has introduced an ecotax of four euro cents for each plastic bag on Monday 1 January in order reduce the use of […]
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Bild claims Athens is “a passport supermarket”
To Vima — A report in the German tabloid Bild says that Greece is “paradise of forged passports”, but that Greek Police in 2017 rooted […]
Greece sells Thessaloniki Port concession to German led consortium
maritime-executive.com — Greece’s asset liquidation agency has announced the sale of its 67 percent stake in Thessaloniki Port to Deutche Invest Equity Partners, Belterra Investments […]
Greece hopes China’s modern-day Silk Road will help its economic recovery
South China Morning Post — Greece hopes to transform its ancient port of Piraeus into the entry point for an extensive network of roads and […]
Capital gains tax to be suspended for another year
Naftemporiki — A controversial tax on capital gains from real estate transactions will again, in all probability, be suspended for coming year. The Tsipras government […]
Russian and Chinese buyers are snapping up Greek properties
Bloomberg — The Moscow-based chief executive officer of real-estate platform Tranio.com has bought a building in the Greek capital and is in the process of acquiring five […]
Greece’s olive oil industry offers a lesson on economic hurdles
WSJ — Greek olive oil should be a shining example of the country’s export sector. Instead, it offers a lesson in why Greece remains deeply […]
Olive oil rules at the taverna table get stricter
eKathimerini — Olive oil will have to be presented at the table in sealed bottles to customers at restaurants and tavernas across Greece as of […]
Germany owes Greece €185 billion in WWII reparations, say German researchers
Germany does indeed owe Greeks billions of euros in World War II reparations for the damages and the enforced loan during the occupation of the […]
Crete hosts 256 migrants from Lesvos
256 migrants arrived in Heraklion from Lesvos with the ferry “Nissos Samos”on Sunday morning as part of a plan to reduce congestion on the island’s […]
Greece and Turkey trade barbs as Erdogan visits Athens
Reuters – Greece and Turkey squared up over old disputes on Thursday during a state visit to Athens by President Tayyip Erdogan that quickly descended […]
Cruise ship arrivals Chania remained high in 2017
Tornos News — Cruise traffic arriving at the port of Souda in Chania, Crete in 2017 remained close to the record high recorded in 2016, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]