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Wage ruling gives gov't immediate fiscal headache, political one may come later
PoliticsGreek Politicsservices cannot be treated like other civil servants because they fulfil a role that is vital... and even then it can only be put towards one-off measures, not those of a permanent fiscal nature
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The Greek crisis we don’t see
Agorafrom having limited access to unemployment benefits, Greeks are also being cut off from free... offered by volunteers have also become vital in helping Greeks who have been pushed to the margins
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Historic victory for SYRIZA in EU vote unlikely to dislodge Greek coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicssustainability have been put off. One of the reasons is that the government’s aggregate vote came... Sgouros. This was a vital victory for the leftists. Apart from the fact that Attica is home to around
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SYRIZA leads in most age groups, professions but coalition parties dominant among pensioners
PoliticsGreek Politics. Support for the neofascist party tailed off in the 55-64 age group and particularly among those over 65... and PASOK’s ability to appeal to pensioners is not enough on its own but gives them a vital foothold
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Greece's new finance minister lines up for a marathon (and several short sprints)
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe naming of economist Gikas Hardouvelis as Greece’s new finance minister took most observers by surprise but the big challenges awaiting him are no secret. Hardouvelis’s appointment caught many off... in July. As Hardouvelis’s Eurobank economic research team highlighted, revenue collection is vital
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Samaras seeks late summer boost from talks with troika in Paris
PoliticsGreek Politicsof taking the pressure off the coalition on the domestic front. There are both specific and broader matters... that it is vital to start showing Greeks that it is easing the burden on them. There is also
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Where next for Greece's troubled privatisation programme under SYRIZA?
Economyfrom privatisations are earmarked for paying off Greece’s debt and play a key role... lenders, playing a key role in the IMF’s debt sustainability analysis but also being seen as vital
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After Eurogroup, hard work, more pressure and sliver of hope for Greece
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat this does not mean the return of the troika, which SYRIZA and Independent Greeks claim to have killed off... and then returned to the HFSF. It will provide a vital boost to the current coalition as it seeks
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IMF preliminary DSA finds Greek debt unsustainable, points to need for debt relief
EconomyProgrammeon existing EU loans would be vital, according to the IMF, to maintain gross financing needs within.... For instance, the IMF suggests full write-off of the Greek Loan Facility (GLF) of 53.1 billion
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Newsletter 36 - 24/07/2015
is that this transaction could kick off a round of consolidation of Greek banks’ subsidiaries abroad and further... for eurozone taxpayers having to bail out Greece was because it was vital for the stability of their own
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