Alex Patelis, the chief economic adviser to Greece’s Prime Minister, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the significance of Standard and Poor’s decision to upgrade Greece to investment grade and UniCredit’s offer to buy Greece’s stake in Alpha Bank, while outlining the government’s next goals when it comes to the economy.
The government will present legislation allowing the operation of private universities before the end of the year, Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said on Friday.
Greenpeace has urged the government to abandon a deep-sea gas exploration project in the Mediterranean, citing newly published research to argue that its impact on endangered whales and dolphins would be greater than previously believed.
The foundations of the Riviera Tower, the 50-floor tower that will dominate the Elliniko coastal project south of Athens, have been completed, Lamda Development said on Wednesday.
A second opinion poll in as many days as indicated that main opposition SYRIZA is less than two points ahead of third-place socialist PASOK, while ruling New Democracy is way ahead
Eight teenagers, all aged 16 years old, were arrested by police on Thursday on suspicion of firebombing a high school in an Athens suburb in an apparent case of gang rivalry. Police said that at around 2 p.m., the group threw 3 Molotov cocktails into the courtyard of Moschato 2nd High School before running away.
The government will review all tax exemptions, including the discounts enjoyed by the 676,000 self-employed.
Greek-American Democratic congressman John Sarbanes of Maryland will not seek re-election in 2024, choosing to depart his seat after an 18-year run, he announced Thursday.
The head of the Hellenic Authority for Communications Security and Privacy (ADAE), Christos Rammos, was strongly critical of the handling by the government and the former prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Isidoros Dogiakos, of the wiretapping case in his remarks on Thursday at the European Parliament’s spyware debate.
The coast guard said on Thursday that a speedboat carrying 25 foreign nationals made repeated attempts to ram one of its patrol boats during a pursuit near the southeast Aegean island of Kos.