Nikos Christodoulakis

The socialist PASOK-Movement for Change party unveiled its at-large list, made up of 15 candidates, for the May 21 election Saturday.

The coronavirus crisis must be the catalyst for Greece to follow a new, healthy model of production, top officials of the Economic Chamber of Greece (OEE) agreed on Tuesday at the presentation of the chamber's study "The Effects of the Health Crisis in the Greek Economy and Proposals for the Day After."

Ta Nea on 9 November published an interview with American economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz in which he essentially admitted that he and a team of his colleagues from the University of Texas in 2015 were working on a plan for Greece to return to the drachma and leave the eurozone.

He viewed this prospect as an attractive solution for Greece's economic problems.

Finance Minister Nikos Christodoulakis invited the business world to participate actively in the country’s effort to complete investments totaling up to 100 billion euros by 2020, speaking at a debate organized by the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Greek business federation SEV .

A serious side effect of the waves of refugees and migrants entering Greece is the negative impact on the Greek economy, and more specifically on its tourist industry, at a time when the austerity-stricken country is in dire need of revenue.

The Greek caretaker government has been forced to deal with the asphyxiating problems caused by the huge inflow of refugees to Greece’s border islands. Caretaker economy minister Nikos Christodoulakis said that financial support will be transferred to the islands with the greatest problems during a press conference on Thursday.

European Commission Vice-president Frans Timmermans and Migration & Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos met with Greek leadership on Thursday to focus directly on the migration crisis that has drastically affected several Greek isles and even replaced the “Greece-euro issue” as the main worry in Europe.

Greece geared up for its fifth election in six years with a poll on Aug. 28 showing leftist leader Alexis Tsipras in the lead for re-election despite a wave of defections from his Syriza party.

"Today the great electoral battle begins. The Greek people will give a strong mandate for the present and the future," Tsipras said in a statement to Avgi, the Syriza daily.