ATHEX: Stock gains wiped out by closing time
The benchmark of the Greek stock market returned at closing on Tuesday to where it had started the week.
Former soccer player seen behind cocaine smuggling
A 41-year-old former soccer player has been identified as the leader of a local cocaine trafficking ring that was dismantled on Monday by the Hellenic Police (ELAS), after a raid of a container at the port of Piraeus yielded 67 kilograms of the drug in 58 packages.
Haris Doukas, from under the radar to Athens mayor
When PASOK announced on July 26 that it was nominating Haris Doukas as its candidate for the Municipality of Athens, the usual reaction was “Who is he?”
Train services damaged by mega-storm to resume in 18 months, minister says
Greece’s railway services which suffered huge damages after a mega-storm hit the country last month will return to full operation in 18 months, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras said on Tuesday.
Instead of allies, PASOK and SYRIZA butt heads
Despite comments by former PASOK leader George Papandreou on Sunday that the victory of Haris Doukas in the Athens mayoral race was a great opportunity for an alliance with SYRIZA in view of the European elections, PASOK’s leadership does not share the same view.
What lies ahead for Greece and Turkey
What a difference a day makes… Just last week, the conversation in this part of the planet almost exclusively revolved around the procedure for a Greek-Turkish rapprochement.
Prosecutor to probe two civil servants with inflated bank deposits
A prosecutor in Athens will investigate two civil servants whose wealth declaration (so called “pothen esches”) showed large sums in their bank accounts that could not be justified by their official incomes.
PM meets with new regional governor of Thessaly
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on Tuesday with the newly elected regional governor of Thessaly, Dimitris Kouretas, to discuss the issues concerning the region.
The US and Greek role in the Mideast crisis
As a critical ally and partner of both the United States and Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean, Greece is once again playing a key role, former supreme allied commander for Europe Admiral (ret.) James Stavridis tells Kathimerini, as the movement of the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group close to […]
Evidence of fiscal prudence
Four days before this Friday’s assessment of the Greek economy by Standard & Poor’s, the government presented new signs of fiscal prudence.