Great benefit for traders receiving payments through IRIS
The commission traders are charged for taking a payment through IRIS is up to a quarter lower than that charged when the payment is made by card.
Europe now holds Cyprus’ guarantee, not Turkey, not Britain
A treaty can be broken not by words but by permanence – a pact meant to preserve Cyprus’ independence became, in a guarantor’s hands, its undoing.
Can Germany learn from us?
These days, praise for Greece from German politicians is hard to miss. The message is always the same: Germany, the argument goes, can now learn how to govern effectively from the very country it once had to rescue.
Turkish FM says yes to a High-Level Cooperation Council meeting
The Greece-Turkey High-Level Cooperation Council will take place soon, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has told Kathimerini, responding to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ statement Friday that conditions are “mature” for a meeting to take place.
What Ιs a “Koutouki”?
A Thessaloniki expert selects 13 spots that have preserved the atmosphere of an authentic “koutouki,” an eatery where it’s never all about the food.
Betting shop robbers nabbed
Four suspected members of a criminal gang thought to be behind a number of armed robberies at OPAP betting shops have been arrested, police said on Saturday.
On Naxos, a demolition that took two decades
For successive generations of residents and visitors to the Greek island of Naxos, the building in Alyko, located in the middle of the cedar forest, has always been there: dilapidated, eroded by the sea, full of graffiti.
Arrest in Oropos tied to transatlantic drug trade
A 39-year-old Albanian national arrested in Oropos is accused of belonging to a major narcotics network that moved cocaine from Ecuador and Brazil into Europe and Russia, according to Belgian judicial documents.
Turkey, US will find way of removing CAATSA sanctions ‘very soon’, Turkish FM says
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Reuters on Saturday that he believed Turkey and the United States would find a way to remove US CAATSA sanctions “very soon”, and added the NATO allies had started working on the issue.
Foreigners cool off on property investments
The contribution of foreign investment in real estate to total foreign direct investment in the Greek economy has decreased significantly this year.