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Back from the brink: What next for Greece's property market?
EconomyFeaturesRightmove put Greece in sixth place among countrries where Britons are looking for overseas property... news was that US investment fund Fortress was in talks to take on a 90 million euro bank loan from
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Newsletter 144 -15/12/2017
the activists and calming concerns among notaries who fear they will be Prior actions, housing auctions.... The budget balance in the first 11 months of 2017 recorded a deficit of 763 million euros, landing
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Banks focus on reducing NPLs linked to property
EconomyMacroeconomycame to around 266 million euros, a significant sum. Among the portfolio sales on schedule... the 2-billion-euro portfolio: PIMCO, LoneStar, B2Kapital, Fortress in cooperation with doBank
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Migrant boat tragedy forces temporary halt on election campaigning
PoliticsGreek Politicsamong nationalist voters, despite making him the target for criticism by human rights advocates... of migrants, while MeRA25 leader Yanis Varoufakis blamed the “fortress Europe” policy for the deaths
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High levels of dissatisfaction among Greeks, Eurostat report shows
SocietyGreek people are among the most dissatisfied people in Europe regarding a range of aspects of life, from personal relationships, commuting times, their jobs and, not surprisingly, their financial... to an EU average of 7.5), possibly because 27.3 percent of them –the highest rate among the older EU
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VAT gap of 30.1 pct in 2018 keeps Greece among worst performers in EU
EconomyFeaturespercent across the EU, with Greece ranking among the worst performers. The VAT gap is a measure of VAT... on the economy. Out of the European Union countries surveyed, Greece continued to fare among
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Unemployment among Greek doctors hits record levels
SocietyUnemployment among Greek doctors has reached record levels, with 27.5 percent of members of the Athens Medical Association (ISA) unemployed or underemployed, a conference has heard. Data presented at recent conference showed that just over one in ten (11.5 percent) of the 27,500 ISA registered
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Poll reaffirms positive view of Putin among Greeks
Societyopinions among the public. Opinion on Russia was not positive for all aspects. Around 59.5 percent
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Greek population among highest for poverty risk, Eurostat survey shows
Society, the third highest among EU countries after Romania (38.8 percent) and Bulgaria (40.4 percent). Greece’s
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Greek tax rate hikes among highest in OECD countries, tax report shows
EconomyFeaturesThe OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics report on tax has revealed that Greece’s tax to GDP ratio increased by 0.6 percentage points (pps) between 2016 and 2017, making the country’s tax rises among the highest out of 36 OECD countries surveyed. The tax-to-GDP ratio stood at 38.8 percent in 2016
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