Category Archives: Latest Greek news

Antisemitism in Greece

Along with the rest of the world, Greece last week paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

Anti-SYRIZA fundamentalism

If you walk into a tiger’s cage, a friend quipped, make sure you don’t touch the wild cat’s whiskers. Put differently, when you challenge a more intelligent person than yourself to a public debate, do not attempt to underestimate their intelligence; you only risk exposing yourself to ridicule. Some people appeared to shun this simple…

ATHEX: Stock market index keeps looking up

The US Fed and European Central Bank rate hikes went largely according to expectations, so eurozone stock markets, including Greece’s, proceeded smoothly on Thursday with sessions of mild gains.

Alpha bond is more than five times oversubscribed

Alpha Bank raised 400 million euros on Wednesday through the issue of an Additional Tier 1 bond with a coupon of 11.875%, a rate lower than initial market estimates.

MEPs lift immunity of 2 lawmakers linked to scandal

The European Union parliament on Thursday removed the protective immunity of two lawmakers linked to one of the bloc’s biggest-ever corruption scandals, paving the way for them to be questioned by Belgian investigators.

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Tax inspectors shut down gas station that operated illegally for 12 years

Tax inspectors have shut down an illegal gas station in Western Attica that sold €18 million worth of fuel since opening in 2010.

Bulgaria’s president calls nation’s 5th election in 2 years

Bulgaria’s president dissolved the National Assembly on Thursday and called early parliamentary elections for April 2 in hopes of resolving the country’s a bid to settle the country’s prolonged political impasse and biting economic woes.

Artists’ strike closes theaters, music schools

Performing artists and art students ‒ some banging drums, playing trumpets and dressed in clown outfits ‒ gathered outside Parliament Thursday during a strike that closed theaters, halted TV shoots and disrupted art school classes.

Greece’s defense doctrine 27 years after the Imia crisis

27 years ago the Imia crisis brought Greece and Turkey to the brink of war. Almost three decades later, a lot has changed in terms of Greece’s defense doctrine.