S&P restores Greece to investment level
Standard & Poor’s upgraded Greece’s credit rating to “BBB-” on Friday, taking the country out of “junk status” and into investment grade for the first time after 13 years.
Overtime kind only to the Reds, not the Greens
As if playing two games within three days was not enough, Olympiakos and Panathinaikos also played overtime in the week’s second game.
ATHEX: Second week of gains for local bourse
The Greek stock market behaved independently from the rest of the eurozone bourses for one more week.
Improving school infrastructure
The state of school buildings, even those located in the middle of the capital, is frequently disheartening and reflects poorly on a European nation.
PM: Greece attracts foreign capital
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed the importance of foreign investments for Greece on the occasion of the privatization of Igoumenitsa port at an event on Friday.
Full steam ahead for Elefsis Shipyards
The competent court has ratified the restructuring agreement and the business plan for the reorganization of Elefsis Shipyards with the investment by ONEX Elefsis Shipyards.
Historic school at the mercy of time and vandals
Signs of utter neglect haunt the disused 14th Primary School on Athens’ central Sina Street, designed by influential 20th-century Greek architect Dimitris Pikionis.
Fruitless anger and abstention
Greece’s demographic problem is not limited to the fact that deaths outnumber births.
Kasidiaris granted five days’ leave from prison
Ilias Kasidiaris, the jailed former deputy leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group, has been granted five days’ leave from prison. It is the first period leave granted to Kasidiaris, 42, since he was sentenced three years ago to 13 years and six months’ imprisonment for directing a criminal organization.
Archons condemn Israeli air strike on Gaza church
The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate have joined the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in condemning the Israeli airstrike that struck the compound of Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City.