Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that there would be more interest rate cuts in 2025 after the central bank cut its key rate by 250 basis points to 47.5% this week.

A passenger ferry was forced to return to the port of Piraeus on Saturday after experiencing engine trouble while it was sailing north of Aegina island in the Saronic Gulf.

Thousands of people protested in Turkey’s capital Ankara on Saturday to demand a bigger hike in the minimum wage, chanting slogans calling on the government to resign and waving the opposition and national flags.

Main opposition PASOK rejected speculation over the weekend that it has agreed to raising the parliamentary entry threshold for smaller parties amid discussions of potential amendments to the electoral law.

Renowned guitarist Konstantinos Mitropoulos of Gadjo Dilo, along with his trio dedicated to the Manouche or Gypsy jazz tradition, will perform at the Theater of the No (3 Konstantinou Palaiologou) on December 28.

Police announced on Saturday that they had dismantled a burglary ring responsible for at least 17 break-ins across Attica.

The further improvement of banks’ fundamentals will determine their upgrade to investment level.

The trial of an Athens police officer who assaulted a volunteer dressed as Santa Claus at a public Christmas event in Halandri and then gave a Nazi salute has been postponed until February 25.

The Cycladic islands, the eastern Aegean and Crete will experience heavy rain and isolated thunderstorms on Saturday, the National Meteorological Service (EMY) has warned in an updated adverse weather report.

Investment in local property market accounts for over 62 percent of all FDI in Greece.

Police have made three arrests as part of a coordinated parallel operation against the Turkish mafia in Athens and Thessaloniki.

The Public-private partnership (PPP) tenders for the construction of student halls in Crete, Thessaly, Thrace and Western Macedonia are progressing.

Major traffic delays have been reported on Kifissou Avenue near Peristeri, in Athens, after a southbound truck hit and knocked down a lighting pole on the median strip on the thoroughfare.

Greece has agreed to provide Ukraine with 24 Sea Sparrow missiles, which will support the Ukrainian Armed Forces against ongoing threats.

The new measurement of customer experience (CX) levels in Greece, which was carried out by the company Braincandy for a seventh consecutive year, showed that the state’s online platform, Gov.gr, was the public service with the best performance, maintaining its primacy in relation to the rest of the public sector.

On Tuesday, December 31, Greece will auction 13-week treasury bills, in book entry form, with maturity April 4, 2025. 

The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED) on Friday announced the opening of a tendering process for the Beach and Campsite of Possidi of Kalandra on the Kassandra peninsula in northern Greece. 

The state budget recorded a primary surplus of 12.01 billion euros in the first 11 months of this year, against a target for a primary surplus of €9.91 billion and a primary surplus of €5.82 billion for the same period of 2023.

Four teenagers have been charged with robbery and assault following a violent incident near the Maroussi ISAP train station in northern Athens on Christmas Eve.

ExxonMobil’s drilling rig is set to begin operations in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone in mid-January.