Valentine’s Day marked in central Athens
A street peddler sells heart-shaped balloons as shoppers crowd central Ermou Street in Athens, which had a decidedly s Day feel to it On Monday.
ECB faces backlash over green strategy ‘distraction’ from inflation fight
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde faced a backlash in the European Parliament on Monday from conservative lawmakers criticizing the ECB’s green strategy as a “distraction” from its duty to tame inflation.
No early elections and no handouts
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is already looking forward to the inevitable doubleheader of elections that will take place, as he insists, next year, when the government’s four-year term ends.
Deepening Greece-US ties are frustrating Russia
Journalist Nektaria Stamouli joins our host Thanos Davelis to talk about the deepening US-Greece relationship, the shift in perceptions among Greeks about the US and Russia over the last years, and how these developments are impacting Russia’s relations with Greece.
Divorcing couples fight over the kids, the house and now the crypto
The divorce dragged on for eight years, almost as long as the marriage.
Key privatization deals set for completion by year-end
Greece is set to sign off this year on a long-term concession for its longest highway and a gas company sale, helping it meet an annual 2.2-billion-euro revenue target from state assets, a Greek source close to the talks said on Monday.
Alpha sells Cypriot asset portfolio
Alpha Bank, Greece’s third largest lender by market capitalization, announced on Monday it agreed to sell a portfolio of Cypriot nonperforming loans and real estate properties to Cerberus as part of efforts to clean its balance sheet from bad debt.
Four in five property owners set to see ENFIA drop
Thousands of property owners in Greece will soon see substantial reductions in the Single Property Tax (ENFIA), Finance Ministry sources told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.
Protection of Greek PDO products in Africa
The close trade and investment ties between Europe and Africa are of great importance to Greece as a Mediterranean country, Secretary General for International Economic Relations and Extroversion (Foreign Affairs Ministry) Ioannis Smyrlis said at the Informal Council of the Trade Ministers of the European Union (Foreign Affairs Council – Trade) in Marseille on Monday.
Greek highways lack speed-monitoring cameras
Despite the relatively high number of fatalities on Greek roads, there are very few cameras monitoring speed.