Eldorado Gold Corporation confirms that it will implement significant changes to its investment plans in Greece going forward. Construction and development activities at the Skouries Project will be suspended. Paul Wright, President and Chief Executive Officer of Eldorado Gold will host a press conference at the Athens Hilton Hotel at 11 ο’clock.
An explosion hit Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet Square early Tuesday and injuries as well as deaths have been reported.
The U.S. Embassy in Athens reminds U.S. citizens that U.S. and European authorities continue to warn of possible terrorist attacks in Europe, citing repeated threats by terror groups.
The draft law on social security reforms may pass with a higher percentage than the government majority, State Minister Nikos Pappas said in an interview with Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper on Monday.
Tourist arrivals grew 8.6 pct in the January-September period this year, Hellenic Statistical Authority said in a report on Monday.
Greek authorities on Tuesday will open financial offers submitted in a tender to buy 67 pct of Piraeus Port Organization, a process characterized as the country's biggest challenge so far in its drive to put Greece again in the map of international investment funds.
Finance Minister Eukleides Tsakalotos will meet today with his Finnish counterpart, in order to promote Greek reforms ahead of the Eurogroup meeting scheduled to take place on Thursday.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis scored an upset win in Sunday’s run-off ballot for the leadership of Greece’s opposition New Democracy, defeating the centre-right party’s interim leader by a clear-cut margin, the Financial Times report.
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There are significant capabilities of supporting economic activity in 2016 through offering significant liquidity from the state to the private sector on the condition that the government strictly implemented its state budget, a privatisation programme and structural reforms included in a third memorandum, the Federation of Hellenic Enterprises (SEV) said in a weekly bulletin on economic developments in the country.
The government on Thursday welcomed the stance adopted by employer associations regarding the possibility of a hike in social insurance contributions in order to better support the ailing pension system, in an announcement issued by the prime minister's press office.
"For the first time we will have one speed pensioners," Labour Minister George Katrougalos on Friday said in a press conference on social security reforms.
The president of the Central Union of Chambers Konstantinos Mihalos on Friday said that he does not agree with the increase in social security contributions adding that the entire market disagrees with it.
The first significant review of Greece’s latest bailout program, which is likely to trigger talks on debt relief for the stricken euro-area nation, will probably take months to complete, said Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who leads the bloc’s group of finance ministers.