ATHEX: Universal growth for local stocks
The main index at Athinon Avenue rebounded on Wednesday to reach highs unseen since January 2010.
Child protection group urges missing 16-year-old to come forward
Child protection group “The Smile of the Child” posted a video on social media urging 16-year-old Laura, who went missing last Thursday after leaving her home in Rio, Patra, to contact the organization and confirm she is safe.
Greek example shows deregulatory reforms can boost economic growth, says Fed’s Miran
The example of Greece shows that “well targeted deregulatory reforms can help lay the foundation for more sustained and robust economic growth by expanding the productive capacity of the economy,” Stephen Miran, a member of the board of governors of the US Federal Reserve System, has told an Athens audience.
Scarcity tactics aimed to drive up prices hit olive oil
Greece’s competition authority has identified practices of artificial scarcity in the domestic olive oil market aimed at driving up prices, according to a research study examining price links among producers in Greece, Spain and Italy, Europe’s three largest olive oil producers.
When political judgment fails
The lack of political judgment among a segment of the urban elites has been striking over time. It’s as if we learned nothing from what happened in the country between 2008 and 2015.
Russian diplomat found dead in Cyprus said to have been GRU spy
A Russian embassy employee in Cyprus who was found dead after an apparent suicide in his Nicosia office last Thursday may have wanted to defect, an independent researcher who monitors Russia has said.
Commercial real estate woos cash
Investment in commercial real estate soared by 47% year-on-year in 2025, amounting to €2.9 billion, with hospitality properties at the forefront, per a report by real estate consultancy company Proprius.
Sinkhole opens on downtown Athens street
A large sinkhole opened Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of two downtown streets in Pangrati, central Athens.
Regional manufacturing group warns farmers’ protests are hitting hard
A northern Greece-based association of regional industries has urged protesting farmers and government officials alike to find a way of ending the farmers’ weeks-long campaign of blockades on key highways and border crossings, warning that manufacturing has already taken a severe hit.
US Federal Reserve board member Stephen Miran gives Athens lecture
Dr Stephen Miran, a member of the board of governors of the US Federal Reserve System, is giving a lecture at the National Gallery-Alexandros Soutsos Museum, at the invitation of the Delphi Economic Forum.