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Mitsotakis bids for nation's soul, Tsipras ramps up handouts
PoliticsGreek Politicsclaimants. Opposition politicians immediately accused the government of trying to buy voters’ support... that previous governments had overlooked Western Attica because of its working class population. The prime
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Multi-bill on way as Athens aims to complete third review by Jan 22
EconomyProgrammethe cash buffer that the coalition wants to create to support its exit from the third programme...-month T-bill were sold at an interest rate of 1.65 percent, down from 1.95 percent in the previous
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Coalition focuses on positives as MPs gear up for vote on vast multi-bill
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is preparing to submit a multi-bill that will reportedly stretch to around 600 pages and is expecting that it will receive full support from SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) MPs... they will hold protests over this change and SYRIZA MPs have expressed concern about the measure in previous
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Net job hirings balance positive by 15,315 in December
EconomyMacroeconomyand secretarial support (2,840). In contrast, the sectors with the highest negative balance were... in November. The share of departures in turn rose to 60 percent from 55.7 percent in the previous month
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Athens set for 6.7 bln bailout tranche, talks on post-MoU framework
EconomyProgrammeat last June’s Eurogroup that a cash buffer would be created to support Greece’s exit from... correcting some of the injustices that took place in the previous years. “The completion of the programme
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Net job hirings balance negative by 16,542 in January
EconomyMacroeconomyand secretarial support (-3,263). In particular, the negative balance in the catering sector reflects the high... rose to 64.2 percent from 60 percent in the previous month. A negative hirings balance was noted
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Central government debt grows to 328.70 billion in Q4
EconomyMacroeconomymillion euro rise in financial support mechanism loans (FSM). FSM loans continue to make up the lion...Greece’s central government debt rose by 2.59 billion euros quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to 328.70 billion in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2017, from 326.11 billion in the previous quarter, the Finance
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Amid exit speculation, growth strategy offers chance for coalition to show intentions
PoliticsGreek Politicsis still adamant about sticking to the strategy of building a cash buffer to support its exit from... that the Greek side is under pressure to deliver because, unlike previous reviews, there are no issues
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Coalition struggles to contend with fallout from football crisis
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSavvidis, nor to support him. The officials of all the clubs are a problem. The only thing... by the previous government led by New Democracy and Antonis Samaras, which had encouraged the millionaire to buy
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Coalition tries to move focus back to scandals
PoliticsGreek Politicsit helps the opposition. ND lead In terms of overall support, New Democracy is on 31.5 percent, 10 points ahead of SYRIZA. The gap is half a point larger than in the previous survey in February
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