MacroPolis

Show/Hide Search

Search

Results 1151 to 1160 out of 5806. RSS

  1. Budget starts year where it left off in 2022, beating target by 618 mln in Jan
    Photo by MacroPolis

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The budget primary balance in January this year came to a surplus of 2.77 billion euros, compared to a surplus of 15 million euros in the same month of 2022, according to the preliminary Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data released on Thursday....

    5%

  2. Consumer confidence takes off in May as rest of sectors deliver mixed data
    Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Greece’s economic sentiment (ESI) recorded a minor drop of 0.6 points in May, falling to 108.1 points, after rising by 1.9 points in April, according to European Commission figures released on Tuesday. Sentiment has been improving in five of the last se...

    5%

  3. SYRIZA leadership contest off to slow start, as ND rushes to contain political damage from fires
    Image: https://www.syriza.gr/

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The contest to succeed Alexis Tsipras at the helm of SYRIZA looks set to gather momentum with the launch of a campaign aimed to generate engagement in view of the September leadership elections. Leadership hopefuls have been sketching out their visions ...

    5%

  4. Governing party MPs rally around ex-transport minister to fend off opposition attacks
    Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    New Democracy politicians presented a united front defending the government against a censure motion triggered by its handling of the deadly Tempe rail crash. Their fulsome support for resigned transport minister Kostas Karamanlis brought condemnation f...

    5%

  5. Government's ongoing stand-off with livestock breeders heralds resurgence of farming protests

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with livestock breeders in an effort to put out the dying embers of the farmers’ protests that have troubled him for weeks, but with questions still being asked about the government's approach to sheep pox. Representatives of ...

    5%

  6. Key Greek election date firms up; turnout could prove crucial

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The date for what is certain to prove one of this year’s watershed moments has been set... one group. Speaking at a meeting of the party’s central committee on Saturday, SYRIZA leader Alexis... that the European Parliament vote is the one that could make or break his party’s short- to medium-term

    5%

  7. Coalition reaches compromise on candidate for European Commission

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Athens on Monday. Relations between the two politicians are thought to be very good. Samaras was one.... Avramopoulos’s nomination was confirmed on Sunday after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras spoke to one.... Kostis Hatzidakis, who was removed from the Development Ministry in a recent reshuffle, was one

    5%

  8. SYRIZA seen marginally ahead as Tsipras and Meimarakis go head-to-head
    Photo by MacroPolis

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in a televised debate on Monday night, which could have an impact on what still seems to be a very close election... together by Bloomberg has SYRIZA one percentage point ahead of New Democracy. One explanation for SYRIZA... to 61 percent during the week. One issue that may help Tsipras in his quest to rally his party’s voters

    5%

  9. Greece a gateway and scapegoat in EU's refugee crisis
    Photo by MacroPolis

    Agora

    have been a moment of exemplary cooperation for the EU felt very tawdry. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras... migrants, not refugees, from travelling to other countries. One of the reasons the EU wants Frontex... one. Greece returned 39 people to Pakistan but authorities in Islamabad rejected 26 of them, claiming

    5%

  10. Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
    Photo by Joanna Kakissis

    Agora

    on, the picture is very different: all around Greece countries are building fences to keep migrants out... skippers one of the island’s two patrol boats. In December 2014, Karakontis and his crew received an award... that one of the ideas mentioned during an EU interior ministers’ meeting last week was for a large refugee

    5%