Tourism traffic to the Ionian Islands, which include favorites Corfu and Zakynthos, picked up pace in the first half of 2016, Vice Governor of Tourism and Promotion for the Ionian Islands Region, Spiros Galiatsatos, said during a press conference this week.
Greece's public debt was 176.3 pct of GDP in the first quarter of 2016, down 0.6 pct from the fourth quarter of 2015, but up 5.8 pct from the same period last year, Eurostat said in a report released here on Friday.
Three refugee centres in northern Greece on Thursday announced plans to launch communal kitchens in order to replace food distribution by catering firms, in pilot schemes to be organised by non-governmental aid organisations.
Greece will apply to participate in the share capital of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Government Council on Economic Policy decided on Thursday, in a meeting chaired by government Vice-President Yiannis Dragasakis.