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EU progress on Turkish visas gives Athens hope of low refugee arrivals
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreek concerns that slow progress in the European Union’s liberalisation of visas for Turkish citizens might undermine cooperation on the migrant issue are set to be allayed this week. Reuters reported on Sunday that the European Commission is set to announce on Wednesday that “Turkey has broadly
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Delays in concluding programme review are credit negative for Greece, says Moody’s
Economy. S&P has the highest rating for Greece, a ‘B-’ that was set on January 22 this year, while Fitch’s rating stands at ‘CCC’ where it was set on August 18, 2015.
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Greece and lenders edge closer at Eurogroup but standby measures, debt relief not resolved yet
PoliticsGreek Politicsto legislate an extra set of specific fiscal measures now. The automatic mechanism will have... to the guidelines they set out last summer, which is that financing needs to be kept
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Multi-bill details how Greece aims to raise 1.6 bln from indirect taxes
EconomyMacroeconomyThe multi-bill tabled in Parliament on Wednesday evening included a set of parametric fiscal measures yielding around 1 percent of GDP that completes the 3 percent of GDP in fiscal interventions that Greece has to make by 2018 as part of the first programme review. The bulk of the latest set
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HRADF's updated plan for 19 privatisation projects published
Economythe share purchase agreement. The deadline for the completion of the transaction was previously set... bids for the sale of 100 percent is set for May 31. For the latter, three investment groups have
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First review completed but more prior actions lie ahead for Greece
EconomyProgramme, the fund’s internal regulation has to be completed by the same date. 2) A second set of state... by the Social Security Institute (IKA). There is also another set of 35 actions that have to be implemented
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Opposition tries to pin government down over last year's Plan X
PoliticsGreek Politicsleaving the euro. It is believed that the difficulties set out in the study played a significant... clarified on the website of the DiEM25 movement set up by Varoufakis. New Democracy chief Kyriakos
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Russia and China prove hot topics in Tsipras-Obama talks at NATO Summit
PoliticsForeign Policyfor a rapprochement with Russia, a position clearly set out by the French President Francois Hollande... Secretary Jack Lew visiting Athens soon. It appears that Washington is set to renew its pressure
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S&P affirms Greece’s rating with stable outlook
Economynotches above that of Moody’s (‘Caa3’ set on July 1, 2015) and two notches higher than Fitch (‘CCC’ set on August 18, 2015). The rating agency said the affirmation reflects its assessment
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HFSF study identifies constraints on developing dynamic NPL market
EconomyBanking. Although recent amendments appear to have set the basis for much improved efficiency in the enforcement... to enforce their rights. However, recent amendments to the law appear to have set the basis for much
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