Athens braces for drillship’s departure
The suspense over what direction the Abdulhamid Han drilling vessel, the fourth of the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPAO) fleet, will take will end on Tuesday as it is scheduled to set sail at noon.
Man rescued from cliff near Trikala
Rescue teams have rescued an 86-year-old dangling off the side of a cliff holding onto a branch in the region of Trikala, central Greece.
Saronic Gulf islands get three new catamarans by Attica Group
Three new catamaran ships were launched by Attica Group on the Saronic Gulf Islands line on Monday.
Facing energy crisis, Germans, warily, give nuclear a second look
When Angela Merkel pulled the plug on nuclear power after the Fukushima meltdown, she set Germany on a course to become the only leading industrial nation to abandon atomic energy.
Pension backlog nears clearing
Greece’s social security agency EFKA is on the verge of dealing successfully with what has long been decried as a systemic failure: the backlog of pension applications.
Funds show interest in managing property buyout agency
Six investment funds, Bain, Bayview, Bracebridge, CRC, Davidson Kempner and Fortress, have expressed interest in managing the agency that will acquire distressed properties and rent them back to their owners.
Suspect gets more time to prepare defense in case of teen murder
An investigative magistrate granted a new deadline to a 22-year-old suspect to prepare his defense in the case of the 17-year-old girl he confessed to have murdered last Monday in Peristeri, western Athens.
If there were social media in 1974
Have you ever thought what the Metapolitefsi in 1974 would have been like if social media had been around?
The ‘miracles’ of inflation
Is the job of finance minister still the most difficult one in a government? Not necessarily, say former finance ministers, comparing the requirements in the past and present. In the years after 2009, during Greece’s debt crisis, the major problem was deflation: Prices kept falling, the values of businesses, land, real estate and labor collapsed,…
Stocks rise 1.31%, but on low volume
Stock Exchange rebounded Monday, amid a positive climate in European markets, without making up for all of Friday’s losses, which analysts mostly attributed to a still developing political scandal over wiretapping incidents involving Socialist leader Nikos Androulakis and a journalist.