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Card transactions in Greece experience boost due to capital controls
EconomyBankingcontrols In recent months, capital controls have been steadily relaxed, with Finance Minister Euclid... lifting capital controls. The Ministry of Finance has been stepping up efforts towards the lifting
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Newsletter 175 -21/09/2018
efforts to convince lenders that next year’s pension cuts should be cancelled. Finance Minister... pensioners, who are likely to spend their retirement Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos made his case
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Greek leaders' contrasting visions all a blur
Agoraapproach to serious issues. Similarly, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos’s assertion last week... of the Finance Ministry. The proposal is an interesting attempt to make municipalities more fiscally
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Privatisation revenues edge upward as end-of-year deadline looms
EconomyFeatures. According to the final budget figures up to August that were released by the Ministry of Finance (MoF... for commercial use. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos also made a statement that monuments would
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FinMin sets out how it would alter policy mix to prevent pension cuts
EconomyMacroeconomyIn its efforts to avoid the politically sensitive issue of cutting pensions further, the Finance Ministry presented in the draft budget this week an alternative scenario consisting of a significantly... authorities outlined the “counter-measures” in detail, as it was becoming evident that the Finance Ministry
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Falling bank shares prompt coalition to take closer look
PoliticsGreek Politicsby as much as 17.66 percent. Finance Ministry officials dismissed the nosedive in share prices... interview on Thursday. The meeting chaired on Wednesday by Tsipras, also attended by Finance Minister
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Athens and lenders yet to agree on how to drop pension cuts without creating fiscal gap
EconomyMacroeconomymonth. Regling stressed on Tuesday that eurozone finance ministers will have the final say. Positive... the “positive” measures. The Finance Ministry expects to have a clear picture of the 2018 excess surplus
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Newsletter 182 -9/11/2018
. In the draft budget that the finance ministry submitted to the EC last month, growth in 2019... by November 19, when eurozone finance ministers will meet again and Greece will be looking for some kind
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Coalition optimistic about pension cuts deal as it readies reduction to contributions
PoliticsGreek Politics.” During a press conference on Monday, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz indicated that Berlin..., after Finance Ministry officials proposed spending cuts to bridge the 270-million euro gap between
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Newsletter 183 -16/11/2018
, there is an ongoing initiative by the Finance Ministry and the HFSF that will take the form of an Asset... to the preliminary budget execution bulletin for October published by the Finance Ministry (MoF
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