Economy

Addressing the country's notorious brain drain problem, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held a virtual meeting with Greeks who left their native country to work abroad during the financial crisis. During the meeting, PM Mitsotakis stressed that Greece is improving...

Greek hotel owners are facing huge losses this year as Tui AG, the largest leisure, travel and tourism company in the world, is deferring the payment of monies due to them this year — until March of 2021. The Anglo-German...

Moody's, the bond credit rating agency, upgraded Greece's credit rating on Friday, giving the country's market a boost amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. The country's rating went from a B1 to a B3, signaling the possibility of economic recovery in the...

Finance Minister Christos Staikouras and Alternate Minister Theodoros Skylakakis on Monday brought a draft for the 2021 state budget before Parliament. The plan envisages a robust economic growth rate of 7.5 percent for the next year, and features a series...

Greece's National Bank recently reported impressive profits despite the worldwide economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic this year. The National Bank Group announced that its after-tax profits totaled 457 million euros in the first half of 2020, up from...

Over recent months, Calamos Investments has expressed cautious optimism for a V-shaped economic recovery, and an expectation that the downturn would be severe but short-lived.

  The Greek economy will receive a major boost over the coming years from the historic European Union decision to create a recovery fund, titled the "Next Generation EU" plan, agreed upon earlier this month, according to Bank of Greece...

  The Greek state budget recorded a primary deficit of 6.101 billion euros in the first half of 2020, from a budget target for a primary surplus of 313 million euros and after a primary surplus of 381 million in...

The coronavirus pandemic, which has negatively affected Greece's tourism and hospitality industries, is already widening the country's budget deficit and slowly pushing it back into recession. On Wednesday, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras announced that Greece is expected to suffer a...

Greece is facing three major challenges this summer, with PM Mitsotakis' government having to tackle Turkey's aggressive behavior in the Aegean, ensure that the post- coronavirus pandemic tourist season will be safe, and secure 32 billion euros from the European Union...