Record state investments planned for next year
Solid growth, with GDP expanding above 2% in 2026, as well as a strong fiscal performance and a dip in the debt below 140% of GDP in the same year, will be the main elements of the 2026 draft budget.
Thrivest set to keep thriving
The further development of the Aktor group in the concessions sector, as well as in renewable energy sources, is the primary goal of management goal, chairman and chief executive Alexandros Exarchou said.
Tsipras quits as MP; new party ahead?
Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras resigned from Parliament Monday, further fueling speculation about his founding a new political party.
Optimism for reopening of Halki seminary
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Patriarchate officials are optimistic that the Theological School of Halki, shuttered by the Turkish government in 1971, will open sooner rather than later.
Air battle over €220 million
Route and terminal fees, i.e. the amounts paid by airlines to use Greek airspace, generate significant revenues, which are collected and remitted to Greece by Eurocontrol. Last year they amounted to €220 million.
‘Greek’ honey that isn’t as advertised
It has been at least four decades that middlemen import cheap honey of doubtful quality and mix it with locally produced ones to sell it as wholly Greek, beekeepers complain.
Alleged gunman Artemios Mintzas charged after street shooting spree
Australian police have charged a gunman who allegedly fired indiscriminately on a suburban street, leaving one person seriously injured and sparking a shootout with officers.
Saudi minister visits Greek counterparts
Development Minister Takis Theodorikakos and Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Alkhorayef and National Industrial Development Center CEO Saleh Al-Solami met at the ministry in Athens and then paid a visit to the Onex Elefsis Shipyards on Monday.
Credit rating upgrade by Japan’s R&I agency
Japanese credit rating agency R&I announced on Monday the upgrading of Greece’s credit rating for issuances in both domestic and foreign currency by one notch to BBB, acknowledging the country’s continued strong growth, stable fiscal trajectory, improved public debt sustainability, and the enhanced stability of the financial system.
What a signal in a failed star’s clouds means for the search for life
On a brown dwarf dozens of light years from Earth, astronomers have detected trace amounts of phosphine, a molecule that on this planet is produced by living things.