A rise in Greek households’ disposable income combined with a significant reduction of unemployment are helping to ease pressures on family budgets in the form of increasing inflation, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said on Tuesday.
Eurozone bonds calmed on Wednesday, with yields falling for the first time in five sessions, as markets reassessed the European Central Bank’s perceived hawkish policy pivot last week and some doubts emerged about its communication strategy.
Environment and Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas announced on Wednesday the subsidies for electricity and natural gas that will apply in February for households and enterprises. The average subsidy for electricity will be 39 euros for households and €65 euros for enterprises.
Matrix Pack, Europe’s leading producer of drinking straws, has become the first Greek company to benefit from the European Investment Bank’s venture debt financing to help the company reduce the use of single-use plastics among millions of consumers.
PAOK, Olympiakos and Panathinaikos have joined Lamia in the semifinals of the Greek Cup after emerging victorious from their second-leg quarterfinals on Wednesday.
I often wonder if this country is governable. But I imagine that there comes a time when whoever rules it asks the same question, without being sure of the answer.
The upward momentum on most European markets and the easing of pressure on Greek state bonds gave local stocks an adequate boost to take the benchmark almost 2% higher on Wednesday, reaching a level unseen in over seven years.
Laws and more laws, stricter and again “even stricter.” But experience from high-profile cases of hooliganism shows that the main need is not to vote for new provisions for offenses that are already punishable by law.
Cyprus will channel 15% of its new casino’s revenue, as soon as it becomes operational, to the Cyprus Land Development Corporation (CLDC) for the promotion of its housing policy projects, the island’s government decided on Wednesday.
Prosecutors in the western city of Patras have ordered a preliminary investigation into the deaths of three young girls from the same family who died within three years of one another.