France’s EU presidency will be good for Greece
It is a common assumption among Greeks that France is, perhaps, their country’s oldest ally.
Pandemic unrelenting as deaths climb
With the main pandemic indicators of deaths and intubations still at high levels, Greece is still not out of the woods, despite a relative drop in coronavirus cases after a spike earlier in the month.
Current account deficit swells
The current account balance has once again set the alarm bells ringing, as its deficit in November was twice as high as a year earlier (as well as two years earlier), reaching up to 2.515 billion euros – the highest since 2011.
Athens and Ankara seek positive agenda
In a bid to de-escalate tensions, sparked by a spike in Turkish overflights in the eastern Aegean and incendiary rhetoric that even targeted President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, the Greek-Turkish Joint Economic Committee is meeting on Monday in Athens under Deputy Foreign Minister Kostas Frangogiannis and Turkish Deputy Minister of Trade Mustafa Tuzcu.
Property all set for rebound
This year the property market is set to recover all the ground lost in the last couple of years and return to the levels recorded in 2019, according to George Mountis, managing partner at Delfi Partners and Co.
Sakkari feels she can go ‘all the way’ in Melbourne
Fifth-seeded Maria Sakkari plays a forehand return to Veronika Kudermetova of Russia during their third-round match at the Australian Open.
Expert answers to readers’ questions about inflation
Inflation is high and has been for months. It’s weighing on consumer confidence, making policymakers nervous and threatening to eat away at household paychecks well into 2022.
Cyprus house prices keep increasing
Residential property prices in Cyprus continued to rise in the third quarter of 2021, primarily driven by apartment purchases, according to the Residential Property Price Index released on Friday by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC).