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Newsletter 120 - 26/05/2017
an agreement on debt like the one proposed by Wolfgang Schaeuble or an even better one, which we... is pushing for medium-term debt relief measures to be set out now and would not accept a proposal... the total of 2.63 million pensioners, almost one quarter (24 percent) are over the age of 81 and 31
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Material deprivation rises, while poverty risk drops slightly
Societydeprivation was classified as the enforced inability to pay unexpected expenses, afford a one-week annual... on the same set of data, ELSTAT also released their 2016 risk of poverty estimate, showing that persons... for households with one adult and at least one dependent child went down by 0.8 percentage points
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Newsletter 126 - 07/07/2017
option is the one that has the most support at the moment within the government. Prime Minister Alexis... Democracy has asked for parliamentary inquiries to be set up to investigate Defence Minister Panos... publicly defended the ANEL leader regarding his telephone conversations with one of the men convicted
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Newsletter 127 - 14/07/2017
in the last six months, with only one month (February) recording a modest increase by 334 million attributed... from the growth of below one percent in the previous month. Greece’s Industrial Production Index (IPI... positive reading, recovering from the growth of below one percent in the previous month. The increase
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In absence of bond issue, coalition ponders next moves
PoliticsGreek Politicscredit rating by one notch to ‘Caa2’ from ‘Caa3’ and changed its outlook from stable to positive... to Bloomberg, though, another complication with the IMF has emerged, because the Fund has set a limit.... Either way, the Fund’s position is seen by Athens as one of the decisive factors in its decision-making
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Skopje first stop for Kotzias in effort to settle Balkan issues
PoliticsForeign Policygovernment has set as a target to have some kind of progress in the NATO process before... The quick diplomatic reflexes of FYROM's government is perhaps one of the reasons behind Athens' decision... are still the number one priority at the Foreign Ministry. Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias is planning
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China's Footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
Agora(RCC) in Sarajevo. They must decide how to set strategic priorities and develop a cooperation... to transport and distribute Chinese goods to different locations in Europe, then the one-way traffic..., Republika Srpska, one of two sub-state entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. China and Russia are already
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Newsletter 135 - 13/10/2017
brushed off difficulties within his coalition this week to set off for the USA on Friday... articles, including the one allowing Greeks as young as 15 to choose their gender. One SYRIZA MP voted against the bill and two others abstained. Only one ANEL MP, from a total of nine, backed
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Sub-tranche released but PPC poses key challenge in review
EconomyProgrammeof November, when the institutions’ mission chiefs are due to return to Athens. Their return date is set... state of PPC’s finances was one of the topics of discussion during the recent visit by the mission... billion. In H1 2017 it recorded a profit of 14.4 million euros, which was entirely due to the one-off
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Newsletter 139 -10/11/2017
an established and corrupt elite, which they claim Mitsotakis is part of. It looks set to form one... the one proposed by the coalition. He also challenged the opposition leader to explain where his party... their worries that only one of 10 actions needed to start the project have been completed
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