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Coalition in a bind as debt relief slips away and more austerity looms
PoliticsGreek Politicsmeasures than it has planned next year in order to cover a “significant” fiscal gap. Despite Greek... the government can find all of the extra 2 billion euros, or more than 1 percent of GDP, it will need
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Coalition agrees policy framework: Purpose unclear, impact doubtful
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor their administration. However, as the accord comes more than a year after last summer’s fractious elections... of much of the paper’s contents makes it doubtful whether it can serve anything other than a very
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Words will always hurt
Agorato appeal to the devil inside us rather than the better angels of our nature. It is a feature of Greek... using them than on their intended targets. In fact, there are few parties or politicians who emerge
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Manufacturing PMI slightly down at 47.3 in October
EconomyProgrammeattributed to a more marked decrease in new export orders than was observed in August. The output... data and slower than that recorded in September. Despite lower demand for inputs, delivery times
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Golden Dawn murders generate new test for Greek democracy
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the opinion polls. However, that support dipped rather than plummeted and with the party now able to argue that it is the victim rather than the perpetrator, the possibility of a bounce in opinion polls
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In clearest statement yet, Tsipras says he'd keep euro
PoliticsGreek Politicsto leave the single currency than to remain in the euro. He said that in the event of a eurozone exit... in terms of expenditure) than the current one. Nevertheless, his proposals received little attention
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Final act in ERT closure carries significant risk for coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be to push for NERIT, rather than a pared down interim TV service, known simply as Public... to be more transparent and better managed than ERT, then there is a possibility that the impact of events
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Are Independent Greeks and SYRIZA set to become odd bedfellows?
PoliticsGreek Politicselections. Tsipras’s party is polling less than 30 percent at the moment and is likely to require over 40... other option than to explore whether it could work with Independent Greeks, which is still the country
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Unemployment rate remained unchanged at 27.3 pct in August
EconomyMacroeconomylower than the historic high of 27.5 percent in May this year. Despite an increase in the number..., the unemployment rate has more than doubled from August 2010 figure of 12.8 percent. At the same time
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Credit origination and transmission: Are Greek banks part of the problem or the solution?
Agoraas NPLs (repayment delayed by more than ninety days) reaching 22.9 per cent. Such staggering NPL... bankers involved in the negotiating process, the offers put on the table have been nothing less than
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