The trip from central Athens to Elefsina and the West Attica town’s Old Olive Mill takes me through a hot, “post-industrial world in transition and looming uncertainty,” just as the note on the exhibition I’m heading to promises.
The “big four” Greek banks posted impressive first-half results, analysts say, focusing on their strong profitability and its main underlying cause, interest and commission fees, but also the quality of their assets and their liquidity, which led all to adjust their end-year goals upward.
The United Nations refugee agency said Friday it was “extremely concerned” over the return of more than 100 Syrian nationals from Cyprus to Lebanon without being screened to determine whether they need legal protection and who may be deported back to their war-wracked homeland.
Forty suspects who were arrested during Monday’s deadly soccer-related violence in Athens are expected to appear on Saturday before one of three investigating magistrates appointed to deal with the case.
Five regions in Greece will be at very high risk of fires on Saturday, based on the Fire Risk Forecast Map issued by the General Secretariat of Civil Protection of the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection.
The government aims to make the transfer of real estate a fully digital process, Deputy Digital Governance Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis has said.
Health and ambulance services on the islands are struggling to respond to increased needs with scarce capabilities in August for yet another summer.
Greece’s debt attaining investment grade will likely happen, given its economy’s progress, but that does not mean the bigger rating firms will do so in their next rating updates, Barclays notes.
Investigators are piecing together the events that led to the death on Monday of a 29-year-old man during soccer-related clashes, a day before the Champions League qualifier between AEK Athens and Dinamo Zagreb.
In the years ahead, Greece should take great care regarding its enthusiasm for North American-style mortgages as a vehicle for encouraging homeownership.