News archive of August 2018

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci came under fire from his political opponents after he said on Wednesday that the ongoing Belgrade-Pristina dialogue will include talks on "the correction of borders" - a phrase which his critics claimed actually meant the exchange of land and the partition of Kosovo.

August dawned on the Greek bourse with a return to poor trading volume on Wednesday. Still, the Athens Exchange (ATHEX) benchmark ended in the black after earlier losses were offset during the closing auctions.

The ATHEX general index ended at 761.66 points, adding 0.06 percent to Tuesday's 761.23 points.

August dawned on the Greek bourse with a return to poor trading volume on Wednesday. Still, the Athens Exchange (ATHEX) benchmark ended in the black after earlier losses were offset during the closing auctions.

The ATHEX general index ended at 761.66 points, adding 0.06 percent to Tuesday's 761.23 points.

Greece sold 26-week treasury bills on Wednesday, raising a total of 812.5 million euros from the market, the Greek Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) said.

The interest rate of the new issue was set at 0.85 percent, the same as the previous auction in July, according to a PDMA press statement.

The German Parliament's budget committee rubber-stamped on Wednesday the disbursement of the last loan installment of Greece's adjustment program, totalling 15 billion euros.

How can we make our politicians understand that certain jobs in the state apparatus should be protected against political interference and partisan games?

Those who deal with politics know all too well that, judging from international experience, cover-ups are often far more disastrous than revealing the truth.

Government and local officials first tried to convince us that the way they handled the fire was flawless.

The National Center for Blood Donation (EKEA) is on Thursday coordinating a second day of blood donations for victims of the catastrophic fires in Attica last week.

Would-be donors should visit the area set aside for EKEA's initiative within Syntagma metro station between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.

A 21-year-old man was to face a prosecutor in Pella, northern Greece, on Wednesday after allegedly shooting and injuring his 53-year-old father following an argument on Tuesday.

A town in Central Macedonia flooded after days of rain, the head of the region's civil protection department, Babis Stergiadis, told the state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency on Wednesday.

Stergiadis said the water level behind the prefecture's administrative offices in the town of Polygyros had reached half a meter.