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Budget primary surplus confirmed at 916 mln in May on higher expenditure
EconomyMacroeconomybeen incorporated to 2019 figures to cover the one-off payments related to law 4575/2018 that were not completed in 2018 (in non-allocated expenditures). The MoF said that these one-off payments... million euros (mainly the one-off payments of law 4575/2018) and increased PIB expenditure by 372
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ND defends plans for three-pillar pension system as SYRIZA looks for weak spot
PoliticsGreek Politicsis similar to the one implemented under Chilean dictator Agustin Pinochet. Achtsioglou suggested... being transferred from the Supplementary Insurance and One-Off Benefits Fund (ETEAP) between 2020... measures that a New Democracy government would take. One is expanding the 120-instalment scheme
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Mitsotakis sets goals for first days in office after July 7 elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsbelieves there will be a high turnout because of “expectations that one cycle will end and another one will begin.” The opposition leader said that one of the first things his government would do
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Mitsotakis aims to hit ground running as polls point to clear majority on July 7
PoliticsGreek Politicsafter the July 7 elections if New Democracy wins an outright majority, as one more opinion poll over... development law will be one of the first pieces of draft legislation to be tabled after the summer... between the parties. In the first one, which foresees all seven parties making it into Parliament, ND
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The benefits of being Greek
Agora(where one parent is a Greek) would also get it. The crowd, judging from the TV footage loved the idea... problems with these otherwise crowd-pleasing announcements. The first is one of legality. Benefits... foreign. Therein lies the second problem. Even if one assumes (which is far from certain) that non-EU
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Tsipras responds to criticism of SYRIZA record in bid to rally support
PoliticsGreek Politicsmanifesto for the July 7 elections. This means that to some extent Tsipras achieved one of the goals he... a better deal than the one Wolfgang Schaeuble had tried to encourage, while keeping Greece... and that this is one of the main reasons that voters have turned from SYRIZA to New Democracy. He
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The positives and negatives that will decide Greece's elections
AgoraMeRA25, which narrowly missed out on electing any MEPs as it gained 2.99 percent support. If one or both... in shaping the outcome of Sunday’s vote. There are two dominant factors, one negative, the other positive... that looks set to end SYRIZA’s reign is linked to the September 2015 re-election. One of the reasons
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National Bank first to test market waters in post-election afterglow
Economythe agenda. National Bank of Greece is one of the institutions that isn’t waiting around in the post..., the preferred course of action will be to prioritise one or even both of the plans — from the Bank... than get an existing one over the line, someone with experience of structuring securitisation deals
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Newsletter 215 -19/07/2019
proposed tax cuts over two bills, one which will be submitted to Parliament in the coming days... and MeRA25 were sworn in on Wednesday morning. Just over one in three (112) are serving as MPs... that this is the first time since 2010 that the country has managed three syndications in one year
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ND lining up tax, development and labour legislation for autumn
PoliticsGreek Politicsback in Athens on September 16 and the mission chiefs are due to follow on September 23. One... Vroutsis submitted two emergency amendments. One set a limit on pensions and the second scrapped the need... the opposition and it seems that this will be one of the main political battlegrounds in the coming
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