Infrastructures and Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis referred to the new Kalamata motorway that is delivered on Friday, a motorway of high standards, speaking on Friday to Athens Macedonian News Agency radio "Praktoreio 104.9FM".
A 35.5 percent increase in industry in forecasts a Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) study.
A 67-year-old woman in Greece gave birth to her own grandchild as a surrogate mother earlier this week, carrying her daughter's child after a serious illness prevented the younger woman from becoming pregnant.
The Council of State on Thursday judged the removal and subsequent return of the antiquities discovered during the construction of the Thessaloniki's underground metro to Venizelos station to be fully legal and constitutional, dismissing objections raised by the Thessaloniki municipality.
The 18th Capital Link Annual Invest in Greece Forum took place in New York City. This year's forum accounted for the attendance of 1300 delegates, which offered informational, marketing and networking opportunities. Eighty five distinguished speakers and executives from the entire spectrum of financial, investment and business communities, such as US institutional investors, investment and commercial banks, analysts, portfolio managers, financial advisors, brokers and companies with activity in Greece, as well as international and Greek media partners participated in the forum.
A high-ranking Greek government source was quick to clarify that PM Alexis Tsipras’s statement on Thursday in parliament about “psychological issues”, which was interpreted by the press to refer to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble had nothing to do with the German politician.
European Commission spokesperson Annika Breidthardt defended the data the European Commission uses for the Greek programme against IMF's criticism.
With two bills on the extrajudicial settlement of indebted businesses and the setting up of a credit line, the government seeks to ease the business liquidity problem and the problems of the banks that prevent liquidity injection to healthy firms, Economy and Development Minister Dimitris Papadimitriou on Thursday said at the signing ceremony for the establishment of EquiFund together with the European Investment Bank.
Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura briefed the MPs and the parties' responsible for Tourism in a broad meeting on Thursday on the lastest developments and the course of the Greek tourism.
The National Council on Foreign Policy chaired by Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will convene for second time in 2016 on the Cyprus issue at the Foreign Ministry on Friday.
Short-term measures for the debt will be possibly activated early 2017, government sources said and confirmed that these measures are not related to the conclusion of the second programme review.
The Athens City Hall on Kotzias Square was lit with the colours of the German flag - black, red and gold - after 19:00 on Wednesday, in a gesture of symbolic support for Berlin and the victims of the deadly terror attack in one of the German city's Christmas markets.
The number of unemployed Greeks registered at the Greek Employment Organisation (OAED) exceeded 1 million in November, according to newspaper “Kathimerini, which cites expert sources.
Right after Moody’s warning about the Greek economy, Bofa Merrill Lynch came forward with a statement that criticizes the Greek government. According to the statement, the bonus to the pensioners that the Greek government announced was a unilateral decision that not only violated the agreement, but was also based on an overoptimistic calculation of the expected surplus.