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Banks remain largely profitable in Q2, with focus on NPL reductions
EconomyBankingpercent year-on-year. The banks are keen to get e-auctions moving again, along with other measures.... with the main interest coming from banks rather than private individuals. Of the total, 150 auctions... with no debt concentrated at more than 90 percent to a single creditor. Kathimerini reports that banks
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EastMed, defence and energy dominate Pompeo's visit, leaving Athens satisfied
PoliticsForeign Policywill see it the same way, and we hope the exploratory talks not only get kicked off right, but it’s... than acceptable,” he said. Earlier on Monday, the United States and Greece issued a joint call... defence spending, the first for more than a decade, that was announced by Mitsotakis recently
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Draft budget sees EU funds fuelling recovery of 7.5 pct in 2021, after 8.2 contraction this year
EconomyMacroeconomywill skyrocket by more than 30 pct, exports will also rise impressively by 22.2 pct and imports will grow by 18 pct. Government spending will get reined in by being lower 1.8 pct. Employment will grow by more than 5 pct, leading to a lower unemployment rate of 16.5 pct, while price rises will resume
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Covid-19 data prolongs wait for re-opening amid new clash over policing
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the disease even though the lockdown has been in place for week longer there than the rest... detained and prevented from approaching the spot where Grigoropoulos was killed more than a decade... Michalis Chrysochoidis of employing excessive policing and allowing members of the force to get away
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Newsletter 278 -14/12/2020
are aiming to vaccinate more than 2 million Greeks next year, but recent opinion polls indicate... half of respondents indicating that they will either not get the jab or will wait a few months before... part of the regulatory capital, more than half of it, consists of Deferred Tax Credits (DTCs
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Uptick in Covid-19 cases prompts caution as govt prepares to tackle pension backlog
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe criteria, which included a loss of revenue greater than 20 pct during the period in question... with the inability of his predecessor, Yiannis Vroutsis, to get to grips with the problem. Hatzidakis has decided... with Hatzidakis when, as Transport Minister more than a decade ago he oversaw the privatisation of Olympic
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PM tries to contain Covid confusion as protests on education and lockdowns intensify
PoliticsGreek Politicsin future. “Ministers have the obligation to serve the government line”, he said, “and not to get ahead... in an interview which had the feel of a fireside chat, he nonetheless appeared less at ease than on previous... his government’s political missteps than to offering reassurance to an increasingly nervous
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Challenges piling up for govt as spokesperson departs
PoliticsGreek Politicsas it continues at a decent pace. Almost 900,000 Greeks had been vaccinated by Saturday, with more than... ranking municipal official allegedly helped 24 people get vaccines ahead of schedule, leading... than 60 days after replacing Stelios Petsas, who was appointed interior minister. Some government
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Newsletter 279 - 05/03/2021
to get the virus under control is also hampering the government’s efforts to reopen the retail... resignation less than 60 days after he was appointed to the post. Although the university professor... of enterprises in Greece that closed last year fell by more than a fifth, while the number of new start-ups
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Vote on child custody bill reveals rifts within ND, KINAL
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the AstraZeneca product. All citizens over the age of 30 can get vaccinated in the current round... of vaccination rather than the total number of citizens vaccinated. In his weekly update on Wednesday, Health.... The top country, Malta, has administered more than twice that number, at 102 per 100 adults, while
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