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Human Rights Commissioner calls for improvements to battered healthcare system
Societyon the disease, user fees increased from 3 euros to 5 euros for outpatient visits and new 1 euro fees
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Industrial production up by 2 pct in September
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s Industrial Production Index (IPI) increased year-on-year (YoY) by 2 percent in September from a downward revised 1 percent increase in August, Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) data... groupings recorded production rises led by capital goods with 8.5 percent, followed by energy with 5
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Greek tourism building strength but needs to diversify, PWC study finds
EconomyFeaturesexpenditure was made on hotels, mostly involving 5 star hotels in major destinations. Economy The report noted that for every 1 euro created by tourism activity, an additional 1.50 euros is indirectly generated
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Alpha Bank and Eurobank start new year with further bad loan sales
EconomyBankingended December with an announcement that it had sealed a deal to sell 1 billion euros of its non... by the bank, from December 2018 to December 2019, NPEs are expected to fall by around 5 billion
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Tourism continues on upward trajectory as latest figures signal record-breaking arrivals
EconomyMacroeconomyfor 4.6 percent of all travel and generated 648.6 million euros in revenue, edging up by 1 percent... compared to last year. This was driven by a 13.6 percent rise in visitor flows to airports and a 5
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Tsipras goes big on minimum wage, hoping to enhance election hopes
PoliticsGreek Politics, granting them a 27 percent rise. Both measures will be implemented on February 1. The rate of increase... was that the minimum wage should go up by between 5 and 10 percent. Greece’s lenders also reportedly
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Short-term rentals raise rents by average of 8.3 pct, study indicates
EconomyFeaturesthat of long-term by a ratio of almost 5 to 1. In Athens, the survey found that for example
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Protection of main homes the next step in assembly of election ammunition for SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government hopes it has done enough to secure almost 1 billion euros in debt relief measures at the April 5 Eurogroup after tabling the draft legislation for the protection of primary residences and hopes to follow this up by launching settlement schemes for social security and tax debts in due
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Glimmer of hope for efforts to negotiate over tax-free threshold, but not primary surplus
EconomyProgrammefollowing the April 5 meeting, when eurozone finance ministers welcomed “that the Greek authorities... completely the measure in question, which is designed to raise extra revenue equivalent to 1 percent
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General govt primary cash surplus at 1.68 bln in April, arrears rise by 164 mln
EconomyMacroeconomyin March. EFSF/ESM/IMF loans edged down by 5 million euros and represented around 71.1 percent..., representing under 1 percent of the total. Guarantees The stock of gg guarantees fell by 116 million
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