Athens Informer

Greece’s fiscal outlook after 2014 remains “inherently uncertain” and will be the focus of negotiations between Greece and its euro-area and International Monetary Fund creditors later this year, the European Commission said. While Greece continues to mak… … Full News here – Latest News

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The Mytilineos group announced on Monday that it is in advanced talks with Chinese state construction company SEPCO for the joint undertaking of a $ 1.05 billion project in Iraq. Group subsidiary METKA has already received a formal concession letter from t… … Full News here – Latest News

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Cyprus yesterday asked United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the island’s reunification talks to resume in the fall to allow Nicosia time to deal with its pressing economic problems. Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides yesterday revealed the… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Cyprus on Thursday asked United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the island’s reunification talks to resume in the fall to allow Nicosia time to deal with its pressing economic problems. Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on Thursday revealed th… … Full News here – Latest News

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met with members of the union of secondary school teachers (OLME) yesterday in a bid to stop them from seeing through their plans to strike from May 17, when pupils are to start sitting university entrance examinations. The talks collapsed. Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Cypriot banks lost 1.8 billion euros ($ 2.4 billion) in deposits in March, when the Mediterranean island agreed to tax bank deposits as part of a European Union-led bailout. Deposits decreased 3.9 percent from February, when they dropped 2.2 percent, Europ… … Full News here – Latest News

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Fallout from the messy bailout of Cyprus will top the agenda of a two-day EU finance ministers meeting in Dublin beginning on Friday, with focus also on growing German reluctance over euro zone banking reform. Unease surrounding the rescue package for Cyp… … Full News here – Latest News

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Another roundof marathon talks between government and troika officials ran late into the night yesterday as the two sides struggled to reach a compromise on a contentious plan for layoffs in the civil service. Before entering a second round of talks… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Government officials made progress in talks with troika envoys yesterday, with only the contentious issue of a civil service overhaul said to be pending, and are reportedly planning to draft new legislation to accelerate dismissals of some 2,000… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Following talks with troika officials late on Sunday, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras appeared upbeat on the prospect of an agreement so Greece could receive more bailout loans and insisted there would be no need for more fiscal measures. Speaking brie… … Full News here – Latest News

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Troika representatives left the Prime Minister’s office in Athens in early afternoon on Sunday after about two hours of talks with Antonis Samaras, who is continuing his consultation with Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras at the Maximos Mansion regarding… … Full News here – Latest News

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point between Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis and Stournaras. The Finance Ministry briefed journalists late on Wednesday, saying that Kouvelis’s interpretation of what had been agreed by coalition leaders regarding the tax just moments earlier… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras called yesterday for Cypriots to have a say on their future in a referendum, a proposal that drew the coalition government’s immediate condemnation. “The Cypriot people and the people of Europe should have the final choice… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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The meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels on Sunday has been delayed by two hours as President Nicos Anastasiades continued talks with European officials. Ahead of the Eurogroup, which is due to start at 9 p.m. Greek time, German Finance Minis… … Full News here – Latest News

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Murder in Ancient Athens: PW Talks with Gary Corby I read about a real-life murder that happened in classical Athens, one that was never solved. It became the basis for The Pericles Commission, the first Nico mystery. Athens was the world's first democratic state. But what few know is that the man who … Full [...]

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