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Opposition questions true scale of PM's handouts, as speculation grows about snap polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsto exhaust its four-year mandate and is planning with a ten-year horizon, adding that New Democracy.... The combination of RRF funding starting to flow in, the eurozone’s fiscal escape clause allowing
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SYRIZA poll nosedive spells more trouble for Kasselakis
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the new leadership had tried to claim that the results of the local elections ten days ago did... of Spartiates as a parliamentary party, which would result in the loss of state funding, while their twelve
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Government action plan on forests touted amid scepticism from opposition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA week after the catastrophic wildfire singed the outskirts of Athens, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the affected areas to launch a ten-point reconstruction plan. Opposition parties say they have... the measures pledged were emergency funding for individuals and local authorities to repair homes
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Newsletter 480 - 17/10/2025
cut on one in ten supermarket items, with hopes for future expansion. This initiative joins a suite... comfortably this year. Despite the availability of Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) funding since 2022
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Wage ruling gives gov't immediate fiscal headache, political one may come later
PoliticsGreek Politicson wage maturities If this proves to be correct, the government faces a challenge in finding... program review being carried out by the troika. It has struggled to reach this amount so finding... the impact that wage cuts would have on the party’s popularity. However, finding new savings could
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Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s coalition has two more hurdles to clear before it stumbles over the finishing line at the end of the year, exhausted and battered but not quite yet beaten. The first challenge is to pass the new property tax, which unites previous disparate levies in one charge, through Parliament. The new
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First round of local elections leave Greek politics finely balanced
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy’s incumbent Vassilis Michaloliakos was beaten into second place by independent Yiannis Moralis
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Samaras shoots, Samaras scores!
Agora“Samaras rescues Greece” – it’s the headline the prime minister and many in his office would have cherished. But Giorgos Samaras, the striker without a club, has beaten premier Antonis to the title of saviour thanks to his injury time penalty on Wednesday, which ushered Greece into the second round
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Wages index edges up YoY in Q1 after sinking by 24.8 pct since 2010
EconomyMacroeconomybeaten by that of Cyprus (-7.9 percent). In addition, Greece and Cyprus are the only two countries
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Increased revenues push Greek budget primary surplus up to 2.28 bln at end of July
EconomyMacroeconomyand means that the primary surplus target was beaten by 1.48 billion euros. The fiscal performance
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