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Greek shares rebound after calming comments from PM and finance minister
EconomyBloomberg on Saturday and the more measured statements by the Greek Finance Minister Yanis... Finance Minister Michel Sapin on Sunday calmed investors’ fragile sentiment that was hit by the two men
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Finance Ministry outlines plans for making savings, increasing revenues
EconomyProgrammeFriday’s Eurogroup agreement has increased the pressure on the government to make savings and increase its revenues. In an interview with Kathimerini daily Alternate Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas... smuggling. Mardas argues that 80 percent of it relates to shipping. The Finance Ministry (MoF) aims
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Finance Ministry's defence of economic record highlights area of policy weakness
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Greek government pulled out all the stops over the last couple of weeks in an attempt to defend its economic record, culminating in the Finance Ministry presenting a document outlining the seven... article, the Finance Ministry this week outlined seven areas that the government has been delivering good
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Finance Ministry seeks solutions to address growing housing problem
Economyinterview with Naftemporiki last week, Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis noted that objective... threshold for obtaining a Golden Visa. The Finance Ministry also makes known that there is an ongoing
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Newsletter 240 -21/02/2020
voiced by former finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos. The vote gave e-members full voting rights... balance at 498 mln in Jan Current account deficit more than halves to 2.57 bln in 2019 The budget primary... target by 771 million euros, the Finance Ministry (MoF) final budget execution bulletin showed
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Finance Ministry challenges SYRIZA's plans for economy, ups cost
EconomyResponding to SYRIZA’s economic programme, which presented by its leader Alexis Tsipras in Thessaloniki on September 13, the Finance Ministry (MoF) published a 12-page press release providing its own calculations on the estimated cost of SYRIZA measures. The document also details the potentially
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Finance Ministry says revenues beat revised target by 105 mln in July
EconomyProgrammeIn response to Wednesday’s press reports noting that net revenues in July fell short of their target by more than 500 million euros, the Finance Ministry (MoF) clarified via a non-paper that July revenues actually outperformed, but compared to a revised target. Preliminary figures from the General
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Finance Ministry publishes roadmap for relaxation of capital controls
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Finance Ministry (MoF) published the roadmap for the relaxation of capital controls on Monday afternoon. This constitutes one of the 140 prior actions the government has to implement in the context of the second programme review. The roadmap was prepared in cooperation with the Bank of Greece
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Finance Ministry ups 2017 budget primary surplus estimates on higher revenue projections
EconomyMacroeconomy. The Finance Ministry also upped its previous projection for the 2017 nominal GDP by 387 million euros
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Finance Ministry details impact of pension interventions, sees 2021 social budget surplus at 3.17 bln
EconomyProgrammeThe Finance Ministry tabled a legislative improvement in the multi-bill with prior actions for the conclusion of the second programme review, which includes a table presenting the impact up to 2021 of the interventions in the social security funds (SSFs) adopted in 2015-2016. Those interventions
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