News archive of March 2015

By Chryssa Liaggou

Business sentiment and consumer confidence were in decline in March, according to a monthly survey conducted by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) and published on Tuesday.

By Sotiris Nikas

The Finance Ministry is trying to find a solution to cover treasury bills to be issued next Wednesday, while the payment of the next tranche to the International Monetary Fund the following day appears certain.

By Chryssa Liaggou

Energy Minister Panayiotis Lafazanis told a press conference in Athens on Tuesday that his visit to Moscow this week has paved the way for a package agreement between Greece and Russia in the energy sector.

Its main pillar will be Greek support for the so-called Turkish Stream pipeline, which will cross Greek territory.

Hürriyet photojournalist Murat ?aka spent a year in the notorious streets of Istanbul?s Aksaray and Kumkap? neighborhoods to document the life of African sex workers. Here he tells their stories: Table of wolves

By Yiannis Papadoyiannis

 The lender?s risk management domain has apparently called for the postponement of activity in Greece

By Evgenia Tzortzi

According to preliminary data of Bulgaria's Finance Ministry, the country will register a budget surplus of BGN 250 M for the first quarter of the new year.

This will be the first surplus recorded in the first quarter of the year since 2009, the ministry's press service reports.

After several days of talks between representatives of Greece?s government and its creditors in Brussels on a proposed list of economic reforms, eurozone finance ministry officials are to discuss progress and the prospects for a deal during a teleconference call on Wednesday.

Since the beginning of the new year, 281 migrants have been detained as they attempted to cross the Bulgaria-Romania border illegally.

This was announced by the department of the Border Police in the Bulgarian city of Ruse, private bTV station reports.

According to a study commissioned by the Belgian data protection agency, Facebook tracks the online activity of every user who visits its website - even those who have opted-out of tracking in the EU or do not have an account with the social network, a new report has revealed.