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SYRIZA's move to aid small parties puts spotlight on Kammenos leverage
PoliticsGreek Politics) of the European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Communication with the help of Kantar, showing
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Significant post-election economic challenges await Greek coalition
Economyat 5.2 billion and is seen as a drain on market liquidity. Restoring growth GDP contracted 1.1 percent... to be achieved GDP needs to grow by 1.1 percent in each of the next three quarters. This would require... respectively in 2013. Initial forecasts see a rise of arrivals and revenues by 3.4 and 6.6 percent
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Economic sentiment edges up in March, consumer confidence deteriorates for third straight month
EconomyMacroeconomy, albeit at a slower pace by 1.1 points in March following a decrease of 5.5 points in February. Following... successive month by 4.7 points to 6.6, which is the highest reading since January 2015. The retail... confidence indicator (+1.1 points). On the flipside, the construction confidence indicator has dropped by 3.9
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Newsletter 122 - 09/06/2017
and 2020. General govt primary cash surplus edges up OECD expects economy to grow by 1.1 pct this year... to return, large uncertainties remain. OECD estimates that GDP will rebound 1.1 percent in 2017... deficit grew by 6.6 percent up to the end of April. Accommodation and food services turnover rises
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Newsletter 135 - 13/10/2017
this week - that there will be an overall deficit of -1.7 percent of GDP this year and -1.1 percent... the goods’ and services’ indices advanced by 1.1 and 1 percent, respectively. The harmonised index... production index (+6.6 percent) and the manufacturing production index (+3.1 percent). In contrast
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Draft budget contains two scenarios on pensions, charts course within agreed fiscal targets
EconomyMacroeconomyin the MTFS assumptions. Private consumption is expected to grow by 1.1 percent, from 1 percent... of the alternative scenario is 1.1 billion euros: 335 million from scraping pension cuts and countermeasures... expected to reach 6.6 billion euros, from 5.5 billion euros this year.
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Greece in danger of repeating familiar mistakes with Golden Dawn
AgoraBarring any last minute upsets, Golden Dawn will officially become Greece’s third-largest party when local and European Parliament elections are held in May. At least that is what opinion polls have been indicating for some time. It would represent anot...
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Podcast - Riding into the danger zone: Greece gets new jets
AgoraGreece recently received the first six state-of-the art fighter jets it has ordered from France, hoping that their arrival marks the start of an upgrade of its military capabilities, but also an improvement in its geopolitical standing. The Rafale plane...
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Greece courts danger
AgoraThis could go down as the week that Greek justice took over from Liz Truss as the world’s briefest joke. It would be funny if it wasn’t so worrying. On Tuesday, Greece’s Supreme Court announced the findings of a preliminary 9-month investigation into th...
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Budget primary surplus at 3.16 bln in December, missing target for full year by 443 mln
EconomyMacroeconomybillion euros and was below target by 611 million. Net revenues came to 50.96 billion euros, under... expenditure came to 44.20 billion, below target by 611 million euros. Interest payments declined YoY
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