Loan issues to grow 8% annually in the next couple of years
Credit expansion is expected to run at an average rate of 8% over the next two years, maintaining the high rates of new loan issuance by banks in 2024-2025.
Growth in Q3 driven by investments
Greece’s performance was much higher than that of the European Union and the eurozone.
British Museum Chairman ‘pretty optimistic’ about Parthenon Sculptures returning to Greece
In a lengthy interview to the Sunday Times, British Museum Chairman George Osborne says he is “pretty optimistic” that the Parthenon Sculptures could be reunified in Greece, even though he concedes this has been an “intractable” issue.
A famous olive grove under claim
Vincent van Gogh’s striking 1889 painting “Olive Picking,” depicting three female figures in an olive grove, part of the permanent collection of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, is once again at the center of a legal dispute, unfolding in New York.
Crews begins dismantling trolleybus cable network
Crews will begin removing the first section of trolleybus cables Sunday, along Piraeus’ Akti Miaouli, launching a broad overhaul of Athens’ public transport network.
Just one in 10 pensioners keeps working
Greece is making less use of both its young and its elderly population than other developed economies, despite facing the strongest pressures in terms of demographic aging.
Young boy dies in Zakynthos dog attack, parents arrested
The parents of a 2-year-old boy who was fatally mauled Saturday by the family’s recently adopted dog on Zakynthos have been arrested on negligent homicide charges and were later released by order of a prosecutor.
Authorities revise Crete migrant boat death toll to 17
Authorities have revised the death toll from a migrant boat capsizing off southeastern Crete on Saturday, confirming that 17 migrants have died, down from an initial report of 18.
Protesting farmers: ‘We have nothing to lose’
The discussions at the Karditsa blockade in central Greece stop and the farmers gather in front of the television. Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Food Christos Kellas is a guest at the TV studio. “Be quiet so we can listen,” some farmers say.
Greece-US cooperation reshaping Europe’s energy future, minister says
Minister of Environment and Energy Stavros Papastavrou has told Fox News that his recent meetings in the United States underscored strong US-Greece cooperation and the central role Greece is poised to play in Europe’s energy transition.