Vegetable producer prices, at record high, stoke inflation fears
Producer prices in vegetables rose 34.1% in June to their (relative) highest level in 23 years, statistics authority ELSTAT says.
Boars devour man
A 55-year-old fireman who went missing on July 22 in Evia was found dead on Saturday.
Looking for solutions to sports violence
In the latest bid to combat fan violence, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet on Wednesday with Aleksander Ceferin, the president of European soccer’s governing body UEFA.
Takeover boosts ANEK shareholders
Shareholders of troubled passenger shipping company ANEK have benefited greatly over the past year from the plans by Attica, Greece’s largest passenger shipper, to take over the company.
Stock market ends week with 2 pct dip
Negative sentiment in European markets and investors locking in short-term gains led the Greek stock market to drop for a third successive week on Friday.
Elefsina in the eye of the beholder
The trip from central Athens to Elefsina and the West Attica town’s Old Olive Mill takes me through a hot, “post-industrial world in transition and looming uncertainty,” just as the note on the exhibition I’m heading to promises.
The Treaty of Lausanne: A story of survival and ambivalence
This year marks the centenary of the Lausanne Treaty, a treaty that has survived a number of twists and turns in world history. Bruce Clark, a contributor to The Economist and the author of “Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey” and “Athens, City of Wisdom,” joins Thanos Davelis to look…
Banks exceed expectations
The “big four” Greek banks posted impressive first-half results, analysts say, focusing on their strong profitability and its main underlying cause, interest and commission fees, but also the quality of their assets and their liquidity, which led all to adjust their end-year goals upward.
40 suspected hooligans to testify in second round of questioning
Forty suspects who were arrested during Monday’s deadly soccer-related violence in Athens are expected to appear on Saturday before one of three investigating magistrates appointed to deal with the case.
Cyprus is sending Syrian migrants back to Lebanon. The UN is concerned but Cypriots say it’s lawful
The United Nations refugee agency said Friday it was “extremely concerned” over the return of more than 100 Syrian nationals from Cyprus to Lebanon without being screened to determine whether they need legal protection and who may be deported back to their war-wracked homeland.