Recovering Spain strengthens growth, jobs outlook
Madrid (AFP) - Spain raised its growth forecast on Friday for this year and next and said unemployment would ease by two percentage points in 2015 as the economic recovery gathers pace. The finance ministry published forecasts of 1.3 percent growth for 2014 and two percent for 2015, raising earlier ...
Greek Bond Yield Spikes Due To Political Concern
Mark Ostwald, strategist at ADM Investor Services, says the prospect of radical left SYRIZA party taking hold of the Greek government is causing a spike in the country’s bond yield. The positive outlook of the recent drop in Greek bond yields appears to be overturned this week due to political uncer ...
Greece - Corfu Town
Hej ! Na dziś nie mam większych planów, wieczorem umówiłam się ze znajomymi. Do tej pory siedziałam w domu i właściwie nie miałam co ze sobą zrobić, pospałam do 10 a gdy wstałam szybko posprzątałam pokój i posprzątałam trochę foldery na laptopie. Niedługo planuję wybrać się z Agatą do miasta, muszę ...
IMF’s Loan Agreement with Greece Expires in March 2016, Says Spokesman
Greece’s loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expires in March 2016, the Fund’s spokesman Gerry Rice said on Thursday. Speaking at a Washington press conference, Rice said the IMF has not been officially notified by the Greek government of a “possible early termination” of Greec ...
Is Samaras Resorting to ‘Bank Run’ Threats?
New Democracy MP Adonis Georgiadis is known for his eccentric, occasionally provocative statements. Since his days as the Greek Minister of Shipping, Georgiadis has made a career of parading himself on TV news programs. During heated arguments with political opponents, he has a habit of saying thing ...
Fearing political crisis, Greece plots escape from bailout
ATHENS (Reuters) - Four years after a messy descent into emergency funding to stave off bankruptcy, Greece's government is trying to pull the plug on a deeply unpopular bailout program to secure its own survival. Under growing pressure from anti-bailout ...
Analysis - Fearing political crisis, Greece plots escape from bailout
ATHENS (Reuters) - Four years after a messy descent into emergency funding to stave off bankruptcy, Greece's government is trying to pull the plug on a deeply unpopular bailout programme to secure its own survival. Under growing pressure from anti-bailout ...
Roger Bainbridge Greece disappearance remains a "puzzle"
The son of a Kendal man who went missing on a Greek island one year ago says what happened to his father still remains a mystery. Roger Bainbridge was last seen on Antipaxos on 30 September 2013, while he was on a day trip during a holiday at his sister's ...
Greece to probe burying alive of woman by accident
Police in northern Greece say they are investigating reports that a woman woke up to find herself buried in a coffin, only to die before being rescued. Several people visiting the cemetery, near Thessaloniki, told police they had heard banging and muffled ...
Karagounis ends playing days, joins Greece staff
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece says it has reached an agreement with former captain Giorgos Karagounis to join the national team staff, as the midfielder ends a playing career that included European Championship glory in 2004. The football association on ...
Greece is a good insurance policy for the West
PYLOS, Greece -- Marble statues are nothing new in Greece. Recently uncovered in the northern Greek town of Amphipolis are a couple of elaborately sculpted, fully hair-braided caryatids standing at the entryway to an elaborate Alexander the Great-era tomb.
IMF’s Loan Agreement with Greece Expires in March 2016, Says Spokesman
Greece’s loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expires in March 2016, the Fund’s spokesman Gerry Rice said on Thursday. Speaking at a Washington press conference, Rice said the IMF has not been officially notified by the Greek ...
