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Newsletter 235 -17/01/2020
euros higher. Using General Accounting Office (GAO) data, the actual state investment spending in 2018 was 2.82 billion, municipalities spent 1.12 billion, social funds 166 million and 859 billion
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East Med concerns not slowing up election campaign as ND plans for office
PoliticsGreek Politicsto appoint a chief of staff as part of his effort to re-model the prime minister’s office along the lines of the German Chancellery and the UK Cabinet Office. Referring to unnamed sources, the report... Federation of Enterprises (SEV). Skertsos was the director of Yannis Stournaras’s office when
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Govt hints at more relief, as economy and inflation jostle with pandemic as top public concerns
PoliticsGreek Politicsline from the PM’s office and the Finance Ministry is that despite the worsening epidemiological
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Opposition irate over watchdog briefing as govt hints at "rogue network" behind surveillance
PoliticsGreek Politicsappear to have irritated the PMs office. Christos Rammos, the judge heading ADAE, has taken steps
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Budget exudes fiscal stability, but hints at political complications
EconomyMacroeconomybe considered the first budget of stability since Mitsotakis assumed office, as the first full year
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Athens poised for new round of talks with Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policycalled his Turkish counterpart, Erdogan, since taking office on Jan 20. Egypt Against this complex... secretary, Themistoklis Demiris and Turkey’s deputy Foreign Minister, Sedat Onal, who is also head
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Parliament's budget office warns government to move quickly
EconomyMacroeconomyIn its latest quarterly report published on Friday, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) urged the new Greek government to move fast in order to reverse the negative climate created by snap... reached an agreement with lenders. The budget office notes that if an agreement is not reached
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Parliament Budget Office sees Greece heading for recession on back of uncertainty
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has highlighted in its quarterly report the dangers for the Greek economy being cause by the current uncertainty. According to the body, elections, the ongoing... there will be a deal or rift with the institutions are all adding to the uncertainty. The budget office also
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Mitsotakis sets goals for first days in office after July 7 elections
PoliticsGreek Politics. In office In terms of his first day in office, Mitsotakis said that he would also like to change
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Corruption claims, foreign policy missteps impede government’s efforts to build momentum
PoliticsGreek Politicssubsidy fraud identified by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO). New Democracy chose instead... the investigation points to Avgenakis and Voridis being liable for abuse of office leading... files from an OPEKEPE office in Thessaloniki being thrown into a skip. The clearout took place
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