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Clash over judiciary persists as second round of local elections nears
PoliticsGreek Politicswill be looking to round off its impressive performance on the local government elections in the second round... and New Democracy MP Dora Bakoyiannis, would round off a perfect week for the family and drive home
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Piraeus Bank posts net profit of 14 mln in Q1 from continued operations
EconomyBanking. When excluding one-off items, namely the bank’s voluntary retirement scheme, PPI fell by 6 percent QoQ. PPI in Q1 2018 stood at 64 million euros. Excluding one-off items, PPI for the same quarter last
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Athens approaches Albania's political crisis, EU process with caution
PoliticsGreek Politicstensions through dialogue; but neither side seems willing to back off. Greece has avoided making any kind... Agreement there was not enough support to sign off on the deal with Tirana. Alexis Tsipras has also
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Newsletter 210 -07/06/2019
from the lenders regarding Greece’s public finances veering off track due to SYRIZA’s handouts..., pointing out that this would allow Greece to pay off its debt quicker. One of the potential dangers
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As East Med tension remains, Athens also keeps eye on Turkish actions in Aegean
Foreign PolicyGreek PoliticsTurkey’s actions, particularly its gas drilling off Cyprus’ east coast, are featuring prominently in the political debate in Greece a few days before the general elections. In fact, concern... to drill off Kastellorizo. Addressing lawmakers of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP
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Mitsotakis sworn in as prime minister as attention turns to Cabinet picks
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan 200 million euros in the first quarter. Hatzidakis could be tempted to dust off his old plan to spin off a “small PPC” unit, which SYRIZA shelved when they came to power in 2015. In a nod
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PPC, Hellenikon present government with first test of problem solving mettle
Economyadministration thought it had finally solved this problem with a plan to sell off some of PPC’s... with creditors and underline Harold Macmillan’s old adage that events knock governments off course
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Budget primary surplus at 382 mln in June
EconomyMacroeconomyfigures to cover the one-off payments related to law 4575/2018 that were not completed in 2018 (in non-allocated expenditures). The MoF said that these one-off payments that took place until June 2019
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Budget primary surplus confirmed at 381 mln in June
EconomyMacroeconomyincorporated into 2019 figures to cover the one-off payments related to law 4575/2018 that were not completed in 2018 (in non-allocated expenditures). The MoF said that these one-off payments that took
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ND moves on to next bill after first round of tax cuts approved
PoliticsGreek Politicssaid that applicants would choose how many instalments they want to pay off their debt... that this would be the last one-off scheme of its kind but promised that New Democracy would create a “permanent
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