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Tsipras goes big on minimum wage, hoping to enhance election hopes
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe increase in the minimum wage announced on Monday by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras beat expectations and confirmed that SYRIZA intends to pull out all the stops in order to boost its chances in the upcoming elections. Tsipras announced to the cabinet that the minimum wage will increase by 11
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New Democracy counters SYRIZA's offensive, unveils renewal effort
PoliticsGreek Politicsfacing the party if it veers towards the right. The former public order minister said in the wake
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PMI at 53.7 in Jan as manufacturers remain confident for year ahead
EconomyMacroeconomyconflicts impacting export activity. New clients were added to the order books of Greek manufacturers
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Details of bond issue give Athens boost in bid to establish market access
Economyparticipating. The order book had exceeded 6 billion euros for a 3 billion euros issue. The bond
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Tsipras halts bid to help smaller parties amid opposition criticism
PoliticsGreek Politicsand other opposition parties, who accused Tsipras of trying to manipulate parliamentary rules in order
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SYRIZA cites support of six extra MPs as sign of stability, opposition protests
PoliticsGreek Politicsand disrespecting parliamentary procedure in order to stay in office for a few more months. The next
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BoG and HFSF schemes under scrutiny as banks look for a way forward on bad loans
EconomyBankingWhile authorities await the second post-programme survey report, Greece’s banks have continued with their work in reducing bad loans in order to reach the ambitious target of an NPE ratio below 10 percent by 2021. In its end of January report on Greece’s four systemic banks, the rating agency
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ND keeps alive hopes of fiscal targets being revised in future
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament in order to finalise the change. New Democracy sees this alteration as a way of preventing
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Despite some common ground, revision of constitution makes for new battleground
PoliticsGreek Politicsin order to be ratified. If the suggested alterations are backed by just a simple majority now
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Gains and losses for all sides from vote on constitutional changes
PoliticsGreek Politicsthen in order to replace New Democracy in office. On Thursday, the conservatives were also
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