In an interview with Athens-Macedonian News Agency (14.8, in Greek) the minister of Labour, Social Security and Social Solidarity, Giorgos Katrougalos underlined that "there is a European model for labour relations: this is the model we propose…
Part and parcel of the Greek government's plan to curtail the negative impact austerity packages have on socialy weeker groups, are a series of employement policies and legistlative initiatives in order to stimulate labour demand, as well as the…
According to OECD, global infrastructure needs (excluding telecoms and social infrastructure) are expected to increase to around $ 55 trl by 2030, but infrastructure investments in Greece follow a significant downward trend in recent crisis years, ma…
2016 will mark another year of growth for Greece’s tourism industry, Alternate Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura said last week during a press conference (5/7) in Athens, where tourism officials reviewed the industry standing in the past six mon…
Prime minister Alexis Tsipras concluded today (6/7) a successful five-day official visit to Beijing and Shanghai aimed to broaden the strategic importance of Sino-Greek cooperation and lure Chinese investments to Greece.
Both sides appeared very ple…
“We opt for creating a better Europe, a more democratic and social one”, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said yesterday (29.6), after the second day of the European Council of 27 EU member-states on the outcome of the British referendu…
“It is high time for the image of Greece to change”, Secretary General for Media and Communication, Lefteris Kretsos, stressed in an article in ‘Avgi’ daily last Saturday (25.6), presenting the government’s priorit…
The week-long Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church that convened in the town of Kolymvari in Crete on June 20th, the first of its kind in more than 1,200 years, concluded its work yesterday (26.6) with the official announcement by his All-Ho…
Concluding an annual Economist conference in Athens on Greece’s policy priorities for 2016, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (23.6) expressed on Thursday (23.6) his optimism for Greece’s final exit from the crisis, as the country now enters…
The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) recently published a joint monograph “ Greece and the EU: Lessons from a long-standing crisis”, edited by CIDOB R…