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Greek-Turkish enmity to continue as polls loom, sea borders come into play
PoliticsForeign Policyto engage in aggressive rhetoric, while Athens seems unable to restore communication channels with Ankara. In reality, neither of the two sides is ready or willing to engage in genuine efforts to begin... ‘casus belli’ is unacceptable, Katrougalos stressed that the issue is what Greece, rather than
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Greece and Turkey take step forward in ties after leaders' talks on UNGA sidelines
PoliticsForeign Policythis difference for more than 40 years, but this does not mean that it is destined to remain... to the negotiating table, to at least establish mutual trust, and to engage in a frank and honest... in New York that he was ready to immediately resume reunification talks, urging Turkey to also engage
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agora. When one considers that Greece accounts for less than 4 percent of the eurozone’s total debt or GDP... retirement age was the same as in Germany, where most pensioners earn less than 800 euros (or 1,000 dollars) a month, where civil servants make up less than 20 percent of the workforce and where public
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Newsletter 407 - 12/01/2024
. Companies in the food sector saw their EBITDA increase by more than 50 pct to 718.5 million euros, while... to pass will allow foreign universities to set up local branches, rather than allowing private... at Tuesday’s cabinet meeting, where Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that more than 400 million
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The first cut is the deepest? Greek pension reforms in context
EconomyFeaturesof public protests against austerity. Often the public rhetoric obscures rather than conveys...’ pensions directly out of the budget rather than through a pension fund. State pensions amounted... more than twice the size of the entire public procurement bill. However successive governments have
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Newsletter 76 - 03/06/2016
into account the currently applied haircut of around 45 percent, liquidity of more than 5 billion... on year (YoY), slightly worse than the preliminary figures released on May 13. The breakdown revealed... kind of firm in non-compliant countries or ones that have more preferential tax rates than Greece
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Newsletter 47 - 16/10/2015
Panos Kammenos failing to include him in the cabinet rather than any particular ideological or political..., distancing themselves from any measures other than structural reforms, such as steps aimed at tackling tax... contraction than lenders The Greek government as well as local banks and economic think-tanks
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Newsletter 59 - 22/01/2016
their total tax and SSC burden to more than 80 percent of their net income. A joint committee... ceiling than the one contained in the government’s initial proposal. At the same time, farmers... deal than the one they have proposed. days. Following a teleconference with the institutions
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Newsletter 84 - 29/07/2016
by provisions of 101 billion, of which 31.9 billion related to PSI, more than offsetting operating... that beat the target by more than 1 billion. It is worth noting that tax revenues surged 38.8 percent... months, mostly reflects lower-than-targeted social protection expenses as well as consumption and non
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A snapshot of the Greek economy
Agorathe 419 investors (over 50 percent more than those who participated in the five-year bond issue... was 22,083 or 2.36 percent more than those recorded during the previous month (935,449) and 54,229 or 6 percent more than those recording the same period last year (January 2018). Of those
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