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Budget primary surplus at 3.16 bln in December, missing target for full year by 443 mln
EconomyMacroeconomybillion euros and was below target by 611 million. Net revenues came to 50.96 billion euros, under... expenditure came to 44.20 billion, below target by 611 million euros. Interest payments declined YoY
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Building activity up by 6.2 pct in April for third straight rise
EconomyMacroeconomy, surface and volume recorded a drop by 6.3 and 3.6 percent respectively following a strong rise by more... Aegean (+150 percent), also reflecting a low base effect, while strong growth was also recorded... six years ago. Building activity is indirectly to apartment prices, which fell by 7.5 percent
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Learning the lessons of Greece's toxic decade
Agorato influence policy, Samaras realised that there would be strong opposition among voters... enjoying strong opinion poll ratings but a consistent exception has been the poor score they have... for the populist approach. Aware of the right-wing nationalist views in his party, the general strong
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Athens buoyed by EU, US support over maritime spat with Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policyon the Turkey–Libya maritime border deal. A common statement adopted by the EU leaders during... on Thursday decided to appoint a special envoy to Libya. This will be Ambassador Christodoulos Lazaris. His mission will be to maintain contact with all sides in Libya in order to closely monitor developments
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A busy year of diplomacy for Athens, but Greek-Turkish ties stagnate
PoliticsForeign Policycountries. But it also accomplished a rapprochement with Libya. Greece’s decision to extend its... was its rapprochement with Libya. That was accomplished with numerous visits by Greek officials, including... for the first time a high-level meeting on Libya on November 12, in Paris. Greece had been excluded twice from
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Newsletter 86 - 26/08/2016
. Apartment prices fell by 2.7 percent in Q2, following a drop of 4.7 percent recorded in the previous... displayed apartment prices contracted for the 21st straight quarter by 0.6 percent in Q2. Since the peak of 102.2 in Q3 2008, the apartment prices index has fallen by 41.7 percent to a record low of 59.6
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Local elections in Greece a precursor of European vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsand a strong showing from him will boost the Neofascists ahead of the European vote. Election rules means... Piraeus, where its candidate Vassilis Michaloliakos is facing a strong challenge from Yiannis Moralis... a strong presence in local politics so to have a candidate - and a young woman at that - in the second
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Newsletter 148 -26/01/2018
in the northern city, the opposition leader issued a statement in which he acknowledged the strong turnout... creditors have been arguing about weaknesses in enforcing contracts and the need to create a strong... Strong goods and services balances, softening from a deficit of 1.25 billion a year ago Greece’s
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Newsletter 160 -04/05/2018
by strong demand and new business from abroad. This led to exports growing for the seventh consecutive... continued at a strong pace during April. As demand slowed, firms responded with lower levels of input buying.... Business confidence hit a new survey high in April with improving financial conditions and strong
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Newsletter 263 -11/09/2020
Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis received strong backing for his decision in February to close the land... space in which to manoeuvre over this issue, which triggers strong emotions among voters anyway.... Banks concluded the second quarter of year with relatively strong performance. Piraeus Bank
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