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PASOK stakes coalition survival on voters’ fear of uncertainty
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan their rivals. In the 2010 local elections, for instance, almost 55 percent of the mayors elected... backed either by the conservatives or socialists. SYRIZA elected less than 5 percent of Greece’s
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Greek bank capital increases: A breakdown of what has been achieved
Economyand 1.75 billion respectively. Both transactions were reportedly more than 1.5 times oversubscribed... international) investors in the past six weeks. This is 2.7 times higher than the amount of 3.1
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What is the bookies' take on the Greek local elections?
PoliticsGreek Politicsrather than the wider margin indicated by betting odds. For the outcome of the European Parliament... Dawn and To Potami is forecast to be more than 1 percentage point. The odds for this are at 1.50.
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Apartment prices fell 7.5 pct in Q1, down for the 21st successive quarter
EconomyMacroeconomy. This is more than 3.5 times higher than the end-2009 figure of 7.4 percent. The official sector estimates call
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Central gov't cash deficit shrinks to 1.27 bln in April
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s central government net balance to April on a cash basis showed the deficit shrinking to 1.27 billion euros, 4 billion lower than a year earlier, according to the Bank of Greece (BoG... at 15.88 billion, 241 million lower than BoG number. Interest payments on a cash basis rose 3.7 percent
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Fitch upgrades Greek credit rating to B with stable outlook
EconomyMacroeconomy. Moody’s rating stands 3 notches lower than that of S&P and 4 notches below Fitch. Fitch notes... in 2015, which is slightly lower than the official sector forecasts of 0.6 and 2.9 percent respectively
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Bookies see clear win for SYRIZA in EU elections but not in local vote
PoliticsGreek Politics. This indirectly implies that Elia is seen getting less support than Independent Greeks and Democratic Left... to 2.75 (from 2.65) for ND. Similarly, Golden Dawn is clearly ranked higher than To Potami
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Greek elections as seen (or imagined) from Berlin
AgoraThe following is a thought experiment, which claims no more authenticity than being an exercise in the “What if?” At the core of this experiment is the question, what would various people inside... percent (more than 55 percent for those aged between 18 and 25) many analysts in the Chancellery
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Significant post-election economic challenges await Greek coalition
Economy) in 2014, 0.8 percentage points higher than Economic Adjustment Programme (EAP) target. The next troika... of unemployed is at 1.3 million, which is three times higher than in February 2009. Youth unemployment remains
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EU elections do not mark end of numbers game in Greek politics
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan 24 hours after the elections were held SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras claimed his party’s 3.9... sitting as independents to back its candidate. However, this is unlikely to yield much more than four
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