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Space and time the missing elements in Greek bailout talks
Agorato bring the overall load, as well as Greece’s gross funding needs back down to manageable levels. Again... population comes back to bite them by limiting their decision-making capacity. All this has created
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Newsletter 107 - 17/02/2017
society. These are elements he feels he needs in order to convince the 153 government MPs to back any... projects Greece will achieve the 2017 primary surplus target of 1.75 percent of GDP on the back
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Greece forced to revisit prickly subject of pension spending to conclude review
EconomyProgrammebrought the pension issue back to the forefront of discussions. The key measures adopted last year... of income, will be particularly difficult for the coalition. Convincing MPs to back the latest reforms
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Athens braces for return of lenders, discussion about measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsfinal deal to voters but he may take a back seat for the time being, until the details are known... the tax-free threshold. For those MPs who are wavering over whether to back the government, SYRIZA MP
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Newsletter 109 - 03/03/2017
may be reduced. Achieving this balance is the only chance Tsipras has of ensuring that his MPs back... reduced their staff for the third successive month, albeit marginally, on the back of lower production
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The joke's on Greece
Agora2016 GDP data might back up). The entrepreneur placed the blame for the failure to conclude..., setting its recovery hopes back significantly and, therefore, destroying the prospects of those waiting
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Labour reforms, fiscal measures loom largest as Athens resumes talks with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politics, with the European institutions apparently wanting to avoid taking sides. Greece wants to bring back collective bargaining, while the IMF is opposed to the idea of rolling back any of the liberalisation reforms
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Newsletter 113 - 31/03/2017
this week has been on its MPs, with efforts to ensure that they will back the deal already underway... targets. In the course of Q4, banks continued to record lower funding costs on the back of reduced
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Wait continues for agreement on measures, tension builds in Athens
PoliticsGreek Politicsby Athens pushing this week for the pension cuts to be phased in, causing the IMF to step back from... back to Athens, although she insisted that progress is being made in the discussions. Athens also
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Piraeus Bank posts minor losses in Q4, almost breaking even for 2016
EconomyBankingwere outweighed by losses of 77 million in its international operations mainly on the back of high... for 2017. Unlike NII, fee income strongly rebounded by 11.1 percent QoQ to 91 million on the back
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