Credit expansion slows down
The annual growth rate of total credit extended to the domestic economy stood at 9.9% in January 2022, compared with 10.2% in the previous month, the Bank of Greece said on Friday.
With ‘Cyrano,’ James McAvoy is savoring a ‘purer form of storytelling’
In a cozy upstairs bar at the Harold Pinter Theater here, actor James McAvoy was talking about ritual sacrifice. The offering in question was him.
Waking up to a fiscal nightmare
The government is facing an economic and possibly fiscal nightmare with the war in Ukraine, as natural gas and oil rates leapt higher on Thursday, again upending projections on inflation, growth and the budget deficit.
Program for jobless accepting applications
The submission of applications for the new eight-month community service program for 25,000 unemployed people has started, government spokesperson Yiannis Oikonomou said on Friday in a Twitter post.
Triple triumph for Greek basketball, in World Cup and Euroleague
Greece’s Euroleague stars enjoyed three wins on Thursday and Friday, as besides the home victories of Olympiakos over Armani Milano on Thursday and Panathinaikos over Red Star Belgrade, a number of players from the two Greek clubs played for the national team instead, helping it beat Turkey for the World Cup qualifiers on Friday. It…
EU could cut Russia off SWIFT, official says
The European Union could exclude Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payments system in a fresh round of sanctions, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said on Friday.
Sports world moves to ostracize Russia
The invasion of Ukraine drew more punitive measures across the sporting world on Friday.
Thousands protest at Russian Embassy in Athens
Thousands of people took part in demonstrations outside the Russian Embassy in Athens on Friday evening in protest at Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The separate protests, called by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and by the main opposition party SYRIZA, took place in the northern suburb of Psychiko, where the embassy is located.
On the right side of history
National borders must never be changed by force. In the case of Greece, this guiding principle is mandated by the country’s longstanding faith in international law, historical orientation and national interest.
A geopolitical earthquake
History’s tectonic plates are shifting. No one knows the magnitude, depth or duration of the earthquake caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday.