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Greek authorities begin evaluation of investment plans

200 Greek companies accounted almost 50 pct of import/export value in 2015
A total of 37,455 Greek enterprises made imports, exports or both transactions in 2015, Hellenic Statistical Authority said in a report released on Monday. The statistics service said that 22,854 enterprises [...]

Sustainable tourism growth among Tourism Ministry’s priorities
The sustainable tourism growth is one of Tourism Ministry’s priorities and in this context the general secretary of the ministry Giorgos Tziallas participated in an education visit to Vienna for [...]

Development bank and hydrocarbons exploration to be discussed at gov’t committee of economic policy

Economy
Eurostat: Greek unemployment rate eased to 21.7 pct in April
Greek unemployment rate eased to 21.7 pct in April from 22 pct in March, Eurostat said in a report released here on Monday. In the Eurozone, the unemployment rate eased to 9.1 pct in June from 9.2 pct [...]
Economy
Greek stocks ended higher in the Athens Stock Exchange on Tuesday
Greek stocks ended higher in the Athens Stock Exchange on Tuesday, on the first trading session of August, leaving behind a negative July in the market. The general index rose 0.68 pct to end at 817.74 [...]
Economy
ΙΟΒΕ: Greek economic sentiment index up significantly in July
Greek economic sentiment index rose significantly in July to 98.2 points, from 94 points in June, to its highest level since February 2015, the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) said [...]

Economy
Greek Purchasing Managers’ Index up to 50.5 points in July
Business conditions in the Greek manufacturing sector improved in July, with the Purchasing Managers’ Index -PMI- rising to 50.5 points, surpassing the 50-point level signaling its return to growth [...]
Economy
Hellenic Statistical Authority: Retail sales volume up 0.3 pct in May
Retail sales volume grew 0.3 pct in May compared with the same month in 2016, but fell 6.0 pct compared with April 2017, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Monday. The statistics service, in a monthly [...]
Economy
IELKA: Greek consumers positively assessing supermarkets
Greek consumers are positively assessing their purchasing experience in large supermarket chains, a survey by IELKA (the Research Institute of Retail Consumer Goods) said on Monday. The survey said that [...]

PM Tsipras: We restore the university asylum; we are not afraid of the students movement

Politics
Mitsotakis says government bill sets higher education back decades; vows to repeal it
The government bill on higher education will set Greek universities back decades, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotalis said on Tuesday, during a debate of the parliament plenum on the draft bill titled [...]
Politics
Parliament to vote on higher education bill on Wednesday
The Greek parliament will vote on a bill that introduces changes to higher education by a roll call vote on Wednesday, following a request by the main opposition during the debate on Tuesday. The bill [...]

Politics
Pavlopoulos honours Greek paralympic team after World Para-Athletics Championships
President Prokopis Pavlopoulos welcomed the athletes of the National Confederation of Peoples with Disabilities on Monday, after they reached the 22nd position at the 2017 World Para-Athletics Championships [...]
Politics
Shipping Min Kouroumblis: We will win the wager of the economy
Shipping and Island Policy Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis said that we have made a good start with the trial return to the markets. “A start that showed many things. It showed that things can change, [...]

Wildfire rages in Spetses; firefighters operating in Anavyssos and Kalyvia

Society
Mostly fair weather and northerly winds are forecast for Wednesday
Mostly fair weather and northerly winds are forecast for Wednesday. Wind velocity will reach 7 on the Beaufort scale. Mostly fair in the northern and western parts of the country with temperatures ranging [...]
Society
VIDEO: Footage from inside a Chinook helicopter dropping water over Kalyvia fire
Footage from inside a Chinook helicopter assisting in the aerial firefighting operation over Kalyvia in eastern Attica on Tuesday,August 1, 2017.
Society
‘Venizelos’ metro station in Thessaloniki to be delivered by 2022, says KAS
The first metro station in Thessaloniki will be delivered to the public by 2022 at the latest along with the surrounding archaeological site, Greece’s Central Archaeological Council (KAS) said on [...]

Society
Court finds former statistics chief guilty of breach of duty
Former chief statistician Andreas Georgiou was found guilty of breaching his duties by a three-member appeals court in Athens on Tuesday, and handed a two-year suspended jail sentence. According to the [...]
Society
Two workers killed by fumes in waste treatment shaft in Lakonia; two injured
Two workers were killed and two were injured during work inside a biological waste treatment shaft in the town of Skala, Lakonia, on Tuesday. According to initial information on the circumstances surrounding [...]
Society
Greeks protest against possible arrival of Defend Europe ship in Crete
Dozens of Greeks protested in the city of Ierapetra in Crete on Monday night against the possibility of the arrival of a ship chartered by the far-right group, Defend Europe. According to information from [...]

Business
Third 1-day conference of PETAK on “Safe Work in Elevators”
The Panhellenic Association of Elevator and Escalator Technology (PETAK) organizes its third one-day conference on “Safe Work in Elevators”, in Athens, on 14 September 2017. Safety in elevators constitutes [...]
Business
Titan group says profits up in H1
Titan Group on Thursday said its consolidated turnover totaled 773.8 million euros in the first half of 2017, up 6.9 pct from the same period last year. EBITDA grew 18.9 pct to 142.1 million euros and [...]
Business
National Bank sells Banca Romaneasca
National Bank of Greece on Thursday announced the signing of a definitive agreement with ΟΤP Bank Romania for the sale to OTP of its 99.28 pct stake in its Romanian subsidiary Banca Romaneasca and of [...]
Business
Hellenic Petroleum raises 79 mln euros from note issue
Hellenic Petroleum on Wednesday announced that its subsidiary Hellenic Petroleum Finance Plc raised 79 million euros from a new note issue. The new notes, which will be fully guaranteed by the company, [...]
Business
TAP appoints new managing director
The TAP joint venture company on Wednesday announced that Mrs Katerina Papalexandri will take over as new TAP managing director from September 1, 2017, replacing Rikard Scoufias. Mrs Papalexandri worked [...]
Business
Sarantis Group reports higher H1 results
Sarantis Group said its consolidated sales grew 5.28 pct in the first half of 2017 to 168.07 million euros, from 159.64 million in the same period last year. Sales in Greece grew 4.6 pct to 65.46 million [...]