Capital looking out for homeless in big chill
The Municipality of Athens remains fully prepared to protect the city’s homeless from the cold, with heated rooms open to all and more on-site interventions by Streetwork in the streets of the capital.
Higher credit demand, fee-driven business could help lenders
Notwithstanding the significant progress achieved recently, the asset quality of the major Greek banks continues to be relatively weak when compared to the European average.
France’s EU presidency will be good for Greece
It is a common assumption among Greeks that France is, perhaps, their country’s oldest ally.
Tsitsipas beats Paire without realizing it to reach last 16
Stefanos Tsitsipas staved off the incendiary Benoit Paire to reach the Australian Open fourth round on Saturday with a tough 6-3 7-5 6-7(2) 6-4 win but appeared not to realize the game was over after converting match point.
Athens and Ankara seek positive agenda
In a bid to de-escalate tensions, sparked by a spike in Turkish overflights in the eastern Aegean and incendiary rhetoric that even targeted President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, the Greek-Turkish Joint Economic Committee is meeting on Monday in Athens under Deputy Foreign Minister Kostas Frangogiannis and Turkish Deputy Minister of Trade Mustafa Tuzcu.
Current account deficit swells
The current account balance has once again set the alarm bells ringing, as its deficit in November was twice as high as a year earlier (as well as two years earlier), reaching up to 2.515 billion euros – the highest since 2011.
Pandemic unrelenting as deaths climb
With the main pandemic indicators of deaths and intubations still at high levels, Greece is still not out of the woods, despite a relative drop in coronavirus cases after a spike earlier in the month.
Property all set for rebound
This year the property market is set to recover all the ground lost in the last couple of years and return to the levels recorded in 2019, according to George Mountis, managing partner at Delfi Partners and Co.
Sakkari feels she can go ‘all the way’ in Melbourne
Fifth-seeded Maria Sakkari plays a forehand return to Veronika Kudermetova of Russia during their third-round match at the Australian Open.
Cyprus house prices keep increasing
Residential property prices in Cyprus continued to rise in the third quarter of 2021, primarily driven by apartment purchases, according to the Residential Property Price Index released on Friday by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC).