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Greece on track for bumper tourism year, figures show
EconomyFeatures) also released figures for the first six months of the year, which put the number of passengers... visitors. BoG data put travel receipts for 2017 at 14.6 billion. The importance of the tourism...), followed by catering services (29,319), both of which are tied to the peak of the tourism season.
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Tsipras tries to entice voters with VAT cuts and pension bonuses
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAchtsioglou. The entire cost of the package of measures for this year is put at 1.14 billion euros... to the result of the national elections later this year. Given that the 2020 budget will be put to a vote... rate applied in the food service/catering sector will be reduced from 24 percent to 13 percent. Also
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Newsletter 209 -07/06/2019
almost 10 points behind New Democracy. The move is clearly designed to put New Democracy in a tight... this week, Tsipras claimed that his party could overturn the result of the EU vote, which he put mostly..., catering and energy. However, the Commission argues that a large part of the fiscal performance
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Impending lockdown decision highlights cabinet tensions, casts unflattering spotlight on experts
PoliticsGreek Politicsof responsibility”, he responded, adding that Kikilias’s proposal would be “taken seriously” if it was put... pressure, increasing impatience is being expressed with the dissenting views put forward by experts... by the measures has intensified. In the past week, a group of 300 catering businesses announced that they were
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Govt treads carefully on economic relief measures, hoping normality is near
PoliticsGreek Politicsprogramme for firms that are directly affected by the tighter Covid restrictions put in place... economies than Greece’s, it could put Athens under the spotlight as the discussion about reshaping... that they need more support. The catering sector is one of those that has suffered most during the pandemic
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Exposure to tourism sector a concern for banks despite effort to save season
EconomyBankingand put the economy on track for recovery in the autumn. The three pillars of the plan were described... came to 31.4 percent. It was 61.9 percent in catering, one of the highest across all business sectors... in the first half of 2019 stood at around 8 billion euros and catering came to around 1 billion euros
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Mitsotakis attempts to clarify plans for post-Easter reopening
PoliticsGreek Politicsattempts to put a spin on its failure. However, the main opposition party welcomed the substance... the latter. The provisional schedule includes the reopening of the catering sector on May 3, to coincide... Easter. Representatives of the catering sector, however, have expressed grave reservations about
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Govt looks to tweak relief in anticipation of record Covid infections, new inflation high
PoliticsGreek Politicsaffecting the catering and entertainment sectors, as the measures put in place over the holidays... on catering and entertainment, it now seems inevitable that the government will have to make concessions... programmes as well as the national budget. A new furlough scheme is also on the table for catering
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PASOK and DIMAR head for do-or-die moment
PoliticsGreek Politicshis party joined the coalition government. The Metron Analysis survey put DIMAR on just 2.7 percent, which is below the threshold for entering Parliament. The party’s declining ratings and its wavering
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A factional story: When disunity came to visit New Democracy
Agorafor survival. Karatzaferis put it quite clearly and succinctly: “I will do everything I can to prevent... paid off so far, preying just enough on the doubt of wavering voters who feel they cannot make
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