Ryanair announces more flights to Chania, new route, improvements
GTP — RyanAir announced Thursday that its peak summer schedule, which will run from June to October, will include extra flights to Chania. “Greek consumers and […]
Presidential decree to end ‘closed shop’ for pharmacies in Greece
Naftemporiki — One of Greece’s “closed” sectors, pharmacies, appears to be heading towards a memorandum-mandated “opening”, as a revised presidential decree was submitted on Tuesday […]
Turkey is an aggressive neighbour, Greek PM tells Europeans in Davos
Reuters – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday his European partners couldn’t always appreciate the challenges of living with an ‘aggressive’ neighbour such […]
EU creditors to start Greece debt-relief talks
BBC — EU creditors have agreed to start talks on possible debt relief for Greece as the country prepares to leave an eight-year bailout programme. […]
Could growing marijuana be the answer to curbing Greece’s ongoing unemployment?
Bloomberg — Investors in medical cannabis projects are focusing on Greece, where a warm, sunny climate and potentially favourable future legislation could help the government deliver […]
Protesting Greek farmers to return national roads with tractors
eKathimerini — Greek farmers are expected to roll out their tractors onto national roads this week, as has become customary at the start of the […]
Greeks rally against use of “Macedonia” in name dispute with Skopje
Reuters – Hundreds of thousands of Greeks in Thessaloniki rallied on Sunday to protest against the use of the name “Macedonia” in any solution to […]
Crete one of the top ten destinations for wine lovers
Vinepair, a leading New York based travel and lifestyle publication, highlights its top 10 destinations for wine lovers to visit in 2018. Among them features […]
Public art destroyed in Palaio Faliro after exorcism
eKathimerini — Phylax (Guardian), a red winged figure by Kostis Georgiou placed on an 8 meter high metal column plinth, was pulled down in the […]
EWG greenlights review completion
eKathimerini — The Euro Working Group gave the green light on Friday for the completion of the third bailout review in principle, but property auctions […]
Turkey links EU accession talks progress to migration control deal
The Independent — Turkey’s government has said it would reject any deal for a closer partnership with the European Union that did not involve becoming […]
Eurobank buys back E950m of its shares from government
Reuters — Eurobank, Greece’s third-largest lender, said on Thursday it had bought back preference shares worth about 950 million euros from the government. The shares […]
Luxembourg based European institutions fund acquires stake in Fraport Greece,
The Marguerite Fund announced that it has acquired a 10% stake in Fraport Greece, the owner and operator of 14 regional airports in Greece. The […]
Strong winds batter Crete
Storm force wind battered western Crete on Wednesday night causing some power cuts in the Chania area A sailing restriction order for all vessels was […]
German strikes spread to Daimler, union mulls escalation
Reuters – Tens of thousands of German industrial workers downed tools on Tuesday in support of trade union IG Metall’s demands for a 6 percent […]