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Greece to Cut Taxes and Offer Incentives for Large Investments

The Greek government plans to offer tax relief to households, to cut business taxes and offer incentives to lure wealthy individuals to change their tax residence to the country as part of a new bill which opened for public...

2019 Set to Be Best Wine Production Year in a Decade for Northern Greece

Experts recently announced that 2019 will be one of the best -- if not the best -- year in a decade in terms of the quality of Greek wines produced in the northern part of the country. As is widely known,...

EU Commission Predicts 2.3% Growth for Greece in 2020

The Greek economy is expected to grow by 1.8 percent this year and 2.3 percent in 2020, the European Commission said in its autumn forecasts released in Brussels on Thursday. The EU's executive body said it expected Greek GDP to...

Iconic ''Ghost Tower'' of Piraeus Finds New Owner

The Consortium of Cante Holdings Ltd. was approved on Monday as the provisional winner in the bidding for ownership of the Piraeus Tower building. The economic commission of the municipality of Piraeus enabled the empty Commerce and Shipping Centre of Piraeus...

Officials Hail Greece's Economic Progress During Fourth Annual ExportUSA Forum

US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt said on Monday that he believes it is "pretty clear that Prime Minister Mitsotakis’s government has exceeded expectations in its first 120 days, and has done a tremendous amount of work to advance...

PM Mitsotakis Meets With Chinese President Xi Jinping to Discuss Investment Opportunities

A Greek delegation headed by the country's Premier, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, met with Xi Jinping, the President of China, along with scores of other Chinese officials in Shanghai on Monday evening local time. "There is a government in Greece committed to...

Greeks Pay Same Amount of Taxes and Other Levies As Germans, Study Finds

According to a recent study published by Eurostat, Greeks and Germans pay exactly the same amount of taxes and levies to their national state coffers as a percentage of their nations' Gross Domestic Product. More specifically, 41.5% of Greek and...

Greek State Borrows €625 Million at Interest Rate of Zero

Greece's Public Debt Management Agency (ΟΔΔΗΧ) announced on Wednesday that it pumped €625 million into the economy by selling 26-week Treasury Bills at a 0.000 percent interest rate. The total bids reached €1,802 million and the amount finally accepted by...

European Stability Mechanism Approves Athens' Request for Early Repayment of IMF Loans

The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) on Monday approved an early partial repayment of Greece's outstanding loans to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At the same time it will waive Greece's obligation to simultaneously repay the same proportion of outstanding loans...

Standard And Poor's Upgrades Greece; Expects Growth Higher than Eurozone Average

Rating agency Standard and Poor's upgraded on Friday evening Greece's sovereign credit rating by one notch, from B+ to BB-. The agency noted that the decision of the government in August to lift the remaining capital controls was implemented without...