Category Archives: Latest Greek news

Aversion toward mortgages

Greece continues to have the worst performance in household credit.

Hands off our cotton, Thessaly farmers tell PM

Representatives of farmers from the region of Thessaly in central Greece said Friday after a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that forcing them to abandon the cultivation of cotton would be a “red line” to them. 

First Zen monastery in Greece in the works

Konstantinos Sgoumpopoulos, a Zen abbot as well as shipping and real estate businessman, talks to Kathimerini about the first Zen monastery to be built in Greece and the wider region.

Three arrested in police raid at Zografou university campus

Three suspects, two foreign nationals and one Greek, were detained during a police operation on Saturday morning at the University Campus in Zografou, located to the east of the city center.

Turkish central bank raises credit card cash withdrawal rates

Turkey’s central bank on Saturday raised the maximum interest rate on credit card cash withdrawals to 5% from 4.42%, according to a decision published in the Official Gazette, in a move aimed at additional tightening.

The Greek debt crisis and President Obama’s foreign policy

Katerina Sokou, who holds the research fellowship at ELIAMEP on “Greek-American Relations” and who covered the Greek crisis from Washington, DC as a correspondent for Kathimerini, joins Thanos Davelis to break down how the Greek debt crisis provides a case study into the Obama foreign policy doctrine – the focus of her recent in-depth report…

Bill to free up space on Greece’s electricity grid

The Recovery and Resilience Plan is the “most ambitious program the European Union has ever conceived of planning and implementing,” Environment and Energy Minister Thodoros Skylakakis said on Thursday, expressing satisfaction with the progress in its implementation and the loans envisioned under RepowerEU.

Greek bonds are already on A rating for markets

The markets “rate” Greek bonds in the “A” category, five notches higher than their current average rating of “BBB-”.

Police operation unfolds at Zografou university campus in wake of arson attacks

A police operation was underway Saturday morning on the University Campus in Zografou, to the east of the city center.

City folk head to the country for the long weekend

Athens residents who aren’t planning to go anywhere for the long Carnival and Clean Monday weekend are in for a treat, as nearly 60,000 cars passed through the toll stations leading out of the Greek capital between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Friday.