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New Democracy tries to win over voters with crackdown on bank charges, migration
PoliticsGreek Politicspolitician met with EU interior ministers on Tuesday in Copenhagen, where he pressed for faster... approach on migration in response to increased arrivals from Libya also comes at a time when New
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Mitsotakis heads to Gaza Peace Summit with focus on wider regional developments
PoliticsForeign Policyposition in Syria as well as Libya. This is causing Athens to deploy all kinds of diplomatic tools... leaders met in New York, and agreed that this issue should be only discussed within a technocratic
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Athens hopes strengthening of US ties brings geopolitical benefits
PoliticsForeign Policyis currently talking with both sides in Libya; very recently he held talks in Turkey and has also met
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When the refugee crisis met the bailout review
AgoraAfter weeks of dancing around the issue, it seems that Greece and its lenders have started, even tangentially, to link the refugee crisis and the pending bailout review. So far, publicly the Greek government has not sought to establish a connection betw...
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Draft budget sees stronger growth, fiscal targets being met
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Finance Ministry (MoF) tabled on Monday in Parliament’s Economic Affairs Committee the 2018 draft budget, which contains its fiscal estimates as well as the underlying macro assumptions. The MoF expects that the improvement in economic confidence du...
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An issue of statistical significance in Greece
Agorain the country’s modern history. Even as early as May 2009, the budget’s unrealistic projections were... to ensure the country met the criteria to join the euro. After joining in 2001, Greece’s fiscal
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Fight against tax evasion yields results, reveals challenges
Society. It also met the troika requirements on audits of wealthy and high income taxpayers by checking 404... a modern, efficient tax administration. It is not yet clear, though, if the country’s political
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What Dijsselbloem didn't say
Agora, with specific conditions attached. They were not the modern-day equivalent of the Marshall Plan, even... were met and the countries exited the bailouts. Greece is yet to reach this point but each step
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Are hirings in the public sector out of control?
EconomyFeaturesthat that they fulfil real needs that are not being met by permanent staff, who were the actual recipients... are government agencies in the more modern administrative sense, which proliferated from the 1990s onwards
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Parties take another look at granting vote to Greek expats
Societyexistence as a modern state, the principle of full citizen rights for Greeks abroad has been espoused...-district, which had historically met with strong internal opposition within all governing parties
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