Search
-
PM appoints new national security advisor as talks with Turkey hang in balance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday the appointment of Thanos Dokos to the post of national security advisor, with a mandate to formulate national security strategy and build the National Security Council, a new body created by the p...
24% -
Re-opening plans hang in balance due to unrelenting virus
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government does not seem set to abandon its hopes of further relaxing restrictions on economic activity next week even though the Covid-19 data continues to look alarming. On Tuesday, a record 4,340 new coronavirus cases were recorded as the number ...
24% -
Greece prepares for next stage in Covid relaxation as tourism hopes hang in balance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe next steps in Greece’s gradual emergence from a six-month lockdown are set to be confirmed on Wednesday, although Covid-19 numbers have eased only marginally and there are doubts about the tourism sector’s ability to capitalise on the official reope...
24% -
ND tries to swerve fresh graft claims as EP scandals, phonetapping hang over budget debate
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Qatargate scandal centred on PASOK MEP Eva Kaili may have given ruling New Democracy some respite from defending its administration against mounting evidence of a domestic spying operation, but an investigation by the EU prosecutor into one of its o...
24% -
Newsletter 106 - 10/02/2017
deficit increasing at double-digit rate of 11.8 percent. Fall in apartment prices eases in Q4 Fall in last quarter is the slowest since early 2009, when prices dropped for the first time Apartment prices... drop rate since Q1 2009, when the apartment prices index fell for the first time. Compared
24% -
Budget primary surplus at 3.16 bln in December, missing target for full year by 443 mln
EconomyMacroeconomybillion euros and was below target by 611 million. Net revenues came to 50.96 billion euros, under... expenditure came to 44.20 billion, below target by 611 million euros. Interest payments declined YoY
24% -
During crisis, proportion of Greeks in extreme poverty has risen almost seven times to 15 pct
Society. The value of the basket varies according to the place of residence – the survey took samples in Athens..., such as the existence of dependent children in the home or whether the household owns the residence or rents... in their own home without a mortgage (10.8 percent). The group most prone to finding extreme poverty
23% -
ND braces for deeper economic impact from Covid-19, mulls more assistance
PoliticsGreek Politicstheir residence as collateral for a small business that has experience a fall in revenue. Eligibility will be based on the homeowners’ income, overall wealth and the value of the primary residence... possibility of KINAL and Tsipras’s SYRIZA finding common ground. Some analysts expected the two parties
23% -
Newsletter 86 - 26/08/2016
. Apartment prices fell by 2.7 percent in Q2, following a drop of 4.7 percent recorded in the previous... displayed apartment prices contracted for the 21st straight quarter by 0.6 percent in Q2. Since the peak of 102.2 in Q3 2008, the apartment prices index has fallen by 41.7 percent to a record low of 59.6
22% -
Newsletter 120 - 26/05/2017
the target by 534 million. Drop in apartment prices accelerates in Q1 Prices fell by 0.5 percent in Q1... recorded a fall of 42.2 percent. Apartment prices fell at a faster pace by 1.8 percent year-on-year (YoY... revealed. Compared to the previous quarter, apartment prices contracted by 0.5 percent in Q1 after
21%