Greece has trimmed its forecast for 2024 economic growth for a second time this year to 2.2%, as stagnation in euro zone countries hits investment and exports, the country’s fiscal council said on Monday, citing a government economic plan.
Tom Ellis, the editor in chief of Kathimerini’s English Edition, joins Thanos Davelis to break down his latest analysis in The Greek Letter, highlighting how tensions in Greece’s neighborhood and uncertainty around the world mean diplomacy has to go hand in hand with a strong defense policy, highlighting the decision for a Greek “Iron Dome.”
An armed robbery occurred outside a convenience store in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Monday afternoon.
Demand for a 10% stake sale in the National Bank of Greece (NBG) by the country’s bank bailout fund was oversubscribed by six times on Monday, in the first day of a book-building process which ends later this week, two sources told Reuters.
President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has rejected a request from the minor populist party Course of Freedom (Plefsi Eleftherias) to release the minutes of a crucial meeting of political party leaders held after Greeks voted by a large margin to reject the austerity terms of an aid package from international creditors in 2015.
Greece will soon launch a new mobile app to support teenagers facing threats or violence outside school premises, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced during a cabinet meeting on Monday, in response to a recent surge in such incidents.
Authorities in Athens have identified a 55-year-old taxi driver accused of assaulting a transgender woman early Thursday morning.
European Union foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting Monday night to address rising tensions in the Middle East following Israel’s airstrikes on Lebanon over the weekend and the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Greece’s political parties are still trying to find their footing after their disappointing performance in June’s European elections.
Greece’s bank bailout fund HFSF began the process of selling a 10% stake in National Bank of Greece on Monday, marking the end of re-privatization of Greek lenders.