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Survey attempts to map current contours of progressivism in Greece
Societygrievance and order-of-business items such as secularism and sex education. Key findings More than..., they risk forfeiting credibility to rivals promising both order and efficiency. The finding that 70.2
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Manufacturing grows in Oct amid persistent export challenges and higher input costs
EconomyMacroeconomymaterial shortages and support new order fulfilment, manufacturers expanded input buying at the fastest... demand, planned investments in new machinery, and expectations of continued order growth. “Greek
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EPPO raises stakes over judicial independence question as new political entrants build cases
PoliticsGreek Politics. It also forces the new parties to articulate what kind of institutional order they want instead... and protection, but does not fundamentally challenge the economic order. Its anti‑systemic edge
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Lethal firebomb attack on homes of ND officials cuts through pre-election season
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the recent enforcement of law and order in university campuses and implicating the broader left... “law-and-order” agenda. Fluid landscape Wednesday’s shocking events took place against the backdrop
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With troika OK pending, 2014 budget sees primary surplus at 1.6 pct of GDP
EconomyMacroeconomy. On the debt front, gg debt is set to slightly ease to 320.0 billion (174.8 percent of GDP) in 2014 from... percent stake in DESFA to Azeri SOCAR (188 million). The target for 2014 was set at 3.56 billion without... to Athens in early December with the target set by both sides to reach a final agreement until the next
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Unpaid taxes keep rising, tax audits short of targets
EconomyMacroeconomytax debt of 1 billion by the end of June. The same target of 1 billion has also been set... taxes due, underperforming the full year target set at 50 percent. On tax audits and collections... temporary audits correspond to 73.9 percent of total. The full target is set at 65 percent, implying
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Sudden jump in unpaid taxes last month takes total to almost 70 bln
EconomyMacroeconomythat the first-half target of legacy debt collections of 1 billion set by the Ministry of Finance (MoF... year, the target has been set at 25 percent, with the year to date rate at just over half the target... a weak performance in July, yet they remain well below the annual targets. Those targets were set
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ECB stress tests and what they will mean for Greek banks
Economyprovisions. A capital benchmark of Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) of 8 percent was set for this pillar... was set at CET1 of 8 percent for the baseline and 5.5 percent for the adverse scenario. The aggregate... on banks’ static balance sheet at the end of 2013. However, the ECB is due to release another set of data
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Tsipras sticks to pre-election pledges as eurozone negotiations loom
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFund in March. Beyond that, Tsipras stuck to his pre-election line, as set out in the Thessaloniki.... Tsipras also set out plans to tackle corruption and tax evasion but did not provide great detail..., starting with Wednesday’s extraordinary Eurogroup. Negotiations Many of the measures set out
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Sowing the seeds of anomie in Greece
Agoraonly 67 lawmakers opted not to tap into the 3.2 million euros set aside for this purpose. However... was adamant he had been set-up by unspecified enemies. However, given that the majority of judges found him... decision makers and its institutions are willing to take responsibility for this, creating a shared set
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