Is the job of finance minister still the most difficult one in a government? Not necessarily, say former finance ministers, comparing the requirements in the past and present. In the years after 2009, during Greece’s debt crisis, the major problem was deflation: Prices kept falling, the values of businesses, land, real estate and labor collapsed,…
Have you ever thought what the Metapolitefsi in 1974 would have been like if social media had been around?
MPs will return to work from their summer recess a week earlier than scheduled, after the government agreed to a request from the main opposition to reconvene Parliament on August 22 to discuss the wiretapping scandal.
Nikos Androulakis, the PASOK leader whose phone was bugged by the country’s intelligence service, has accused Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of “methodically avoided providing explanations” in a bid to play for time in his televised address about the wiretapping scandal.
The opposition leader whose phone was bugged by the country’s intelligence service has “persistently refused” to learn why his device was legally monitored, government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou said on Monday.
Some 28 lighthouses across the country will be open to the public on Sunday, August 21, in celebration of International Lighthouse Day 2022, the Greek Navy said on Saturday.
Greek inflation rate slowed to 11.6% in July from 12.1% in June and after an 1.4% reading in July 2021, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Monday.
Katerina Makatouni landed in Athens feeling refreshed and ready to adapt to the local time zone, one of thousands of passengers enjoying the ease of traveling directly from Boston in the United States to the Greek capital.
A 57-year-old man and his 26-year-old daughter are facing charges of domestic violence on Monday after the daughter stabbed the man with a knife after accusing him of sexual assault. The father is also facing charges of domestic sexual abuse, while the daughter faces charges of possessing a weapon.
The Hellenic Police (ELAS) conducted several narcotic operations in central and western Athens from August 2 to August 5, leading to two arrests.