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Scandals, shifting polls and strategic anxiety make for unsettled political summer
PoliticsGreek Politicsare clear: wages and employment (50%) and housing (26%) dominate concerns, while proposals for free... Asimakopoulou and former Interior Ministry secretary‑general Michalis Stavrianoudakis, for the leak of 25,500
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Newsletter 272 -06/11/2020
people could end up in hospital over the next 10 days, while the 50 new ICU beds that were recently... are reflected on the budget. The Commission sees a headline deficit of 7 pct of GDP... the temporary measures that the authorities included in the draft budget of 2021, worth 1.1 pct of GDP
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Newsletter 35 - 17/07/2015
November 2011 to May 2012. Primary surplus widens Greece’s budget primary surplus widened to 1.88 billion... expenditure (by 2.63 billion) and a higher public investment budget balance (by 1.54 billion). Revenues... will continue to hover above Greece until the third bailout has been agreed. Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis
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Newsletter 111 - 17/03/2017
93.41 bln in January The budget primary balance recorded a surplus of 2.12 billion euros in the first... Ministry preliminary budget execution bulletin revealed. This year’s primary surplus beat the target... until the full details of such a settlement are known. A comment by Interior Minister Panos Skourletis
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HRADF outlines major privatisation plan, no timelines given
EconomyProgrammebudget figures for 2017 put the target for revenues from privatisations at 1.54 billion euros. In the Ministry of Finance’s preliminary budget figures for December, the total fell short by 247 million..., the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Ministry of Interior, Hellenikon SA
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Newsletter 170 -13/07/2018
on the five islands. The savings are set to come from reductions to the defence budget. Tsakalotos also had... increased by 0.9 percent. The Finance Ministry’s projection in the budget sees the HICP rising... elections together. Interior Minister Panos Skourletis announced that the coalition had decided
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Mitsotakis pleads for strong mandate as polls suggest ND heading for landslide win
PoliticsGreek Politicsare reducing the ENFIA property tax by 30 percent over two years. This will be included in the 2020 budget. The conservatives also aim to reduce in next year’s budget the base rate of income tax for anyone... order or interior ministries. Economy The opposition leader also touched upon the main elements of New
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Is Greece facing a new migration crisis?
Society, with a 50-million-euro budget earmarked for surveillance and communication technology to be shared between... militarised response has been a strong trend at both European and national levels. The budget... statement, the country’s interior ,inister claimed that 56,000 migrants have already been deported
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Newsletter 228 -15/11/2019
, a full 0.5 percent lower than the government’s 2020 budget target, and 2 percent for 2021, with long... on the budget, including the achievability of the 3.5 percent primary surplus target in 2020.... Opposition SYRIZA were quick to condemn the police’s actions, with former Interior Minister Alexis
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Public sector hires under scrutiny again with more in the pipeline
PoliticsGreek Politicsin 2022. According to figures presented in the budget, applications this year are expected to exceed... is justified in the budget report by delays due to the pandemic, noting that in 2020 only 4,819 regular hires... by Interior Minister Makis Voridis at the last cabinet meeting. Most of the positions to be filled
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