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Bound to lose
Agoramembers of Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn were convicted on October 7 of operating as a criminal organisation...-right party that entered Greek Parliament in 2012 with 18 MPs and almost 7 percent of the vote... years, while those convicted of membership can be jailed for between 5 and 10 years, which can
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Higher number of firms and employees, increased average wage in private sector in 2016
EconomyMacroeconomy. For nearly 7 out of 10 employees, the weekly working hours exceeded 35 hours. A quarter worked... were employing up to 4 employees and nearly 9 out of 10 companies up to 10 employees. There were...-controlled companies and local governments. In addition, around 4 out of 10 companies were based
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Survey sheds light on sentiments in lockdown, as govt backpedals on voucher scheme
PoliticsGreek Politicsand its institutions, with 7 in 10 in favour of state intervention to safeguard the public interest... in favour of a gradual easing of restrictions, starting in early May. However, around four in 10... in digital participation. Four in 10 Greeks say they will now make more use of e-government services
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Where is Odysseus? Part 4 - Unemployment and Employment
Agorathat the natural UR could settle around 7½ percent of the labor force. Employment growth has since been robust, even during the Covid episode, so we now take this down, as a baseline hypothesis to 7 percent... throughout the first 10 years of the euro adoption. This deteriorated competitiveness and caused
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What in the world will we do without barbarians?
Agora, or just over 103 percent of its economy. To service that debt Greece needed about 10 billion euros per year, which in 2000 and 2001 represented approximately 7 percent of GDP. With the effective interest rate - interest payments over the stock of debt – at just under 7 percent, the equation
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Can Greece learn to love renewable energy?
EconomyFeaturesproduction remained below that of the EU target of 10 percent of total production, standing at 6.5 percent... of solar thermal system capacity in Europe at around 4.1 million m2 (2.9 GWth).[7] Since... with 124 MW capacity projects under construction in Greece, mostly in the form of wind turbines.[10
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Piraeus Bank posts net loss of 80 mln in Q1
EconomyBankingthrough a combination of restructurings, curings, liquidations and collections (-7 billion euros... by 2020, and the NPL balance to under 10 billion euros. P&L NII stood at 360 million euros, a reduction... and commission income fell QoQ by 10 percent (79 million versus 87 million) but rose by 2 percent YoY
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Travel balance rises by 9.2 pct to surplus of 13.90 bln in 2018
EconomyMacroeconomyof Greece (BoG). The rise was driven largely by a 10 percent increase (+1.46 billion euros) in travel... length of stay falling by 1.5 percent year-on-year (YoY) from 7.1 nights to 7 nights. Receipts Travel receipts in 2018 came to 16.09 billion, an increase of 10 percent compared to the same period last
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Parties' competing tax pledges come up against challenging reality
EconomyFeaturesof national elections which are now scheduled for July 7. Lowering the tax-free threshold in 2020 has... an increase of 7 percent in the number of declarations over 2012. However, total taxable income fell... was commercial activity contributed a similar amount (22 percent of the total tax) but made up only 10 percent
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Newsletter 443 - 29/11/2024
. Surprisingly, backing for Kasselakis’s Movement for Democracy party was at 7 pct, while SYRIZA is seen... with 24 pct. PASOK is 10 percentage points behind with 14 pct, while another 6.5 pct separates it from... successor party that was barred from running in the last elections. Overall, up to 10 parties could make
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