2020

The first baby to be born in 2020 on Greece's island of Lesvos was a boy from a family of Iraqi refugees. The boy was born in the early hours of January 1 and weighs 2.8 kilograms. According to local daily...

The Association of Bakers of Athens, together with citizens from Attica's large municipality of Peristeri, prepared, baked and distributed to the public a massive ''Vasilopita,'' the traditional cake Greek families enjoy on New Year's Eve, on Tuesday. Peristeri mayor Andreas...

What is now a worldwide tradition, began exactly 100 years ago, in 1920, by Greek immigrant Peter (Pete) Pantages.

Greece's state budget for the financial year 2020 was presented to Parliament by Finance Minister Christos Staikouras on Thursday. A growth rate of 2.8% and a primary surplus of 3.6% in 2020 are foreseen in the new budget, slightly exceeding...

The European Commission announced on Wednesday that it has adopted the fourth report for Greece under the Enhanced Surveillance framework. This gives the green light to the December meeting of the Eurogroup to approve Greece's budget for the year 2020. ''The...

The mayor of the city of Sparta announced recently that his city council is organizing a series of huge events next year to commemorate the 2,500th anniversary of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae between the Spartans and the invading...

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...

Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis declared on Monday that after several years of increases in its number of visitors, Greece is expected to break even more records for tourism in 2020. Speaking to the media during the World Travel Market (WTM) 2019...

Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost airline, announced recently that it will add fourteen new routes to and from Greece in 2020. These new routes will come in addition to its already-massive network of flights which connect most of the country's mainland...

Vitor Gaspar, the Head of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) presented the Fund's Fiscal Monitor on Wednesday, just before its annual autumn summit in Washington. With regard to the IMF's projections about Greece's economy, the data presented...