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Govt grabs opportunity offered by escape clause to entice voters with support package
Economyby their respective finance ministers, urging fiscal discipline and containment of the excessive debt..., to finance extensive support spending of 25 billion euros and to leverage low interest rates thanks... and the Finance Ministry designed a package that included the extension of measures already
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The case of SYRIZA's fiscal performance
Agoradifficult phase of the Greek crisis). The Ministry of Finance publishes a detailed excel spreadsheet... Varoufakis in the Ministry of Finance, broadly continued this trend. The first SYRIZA government..., and Varoufakis was replaced by Euclid Tsakalotos as the new finance minister. But then, the second SYRIZA
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Newsletter 333 - 01/04/2022
energy bill subsidies, was highlighted this week after Finance Minister Christos Staikouras... because the Finance Ministry was using resources from the Energy Transition Fund, which is funded... an immediate effect on revenues, putting fiscal commitments at risk. The Finance Ministry expects
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Newsletter 361 - 02/12/2022
, was disrupted this week as the Finance Ministry goes in search of solutions that will protect vulnerable... the pandemic, the Finance Ministry paid a combined amount of nearly half a billion in two schemes... with banks and servicers from auctioning primary homes. The Finance Ministry highlighted the sensitive
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Government’s effort to revive economic success story narrative heavily reliant on RRF execution
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis were in Thessaloniki... on a panel discussion, Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis argued there are signs that Greece’s.... It was noticeable, for instance, that the Finance Ministry’s spokesperson, Omiros Tsapalos, wrote
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Come back Cleisthenes, all is forgiven
Agoraappointment of ex-Finance Minister Yiannis Papathanasiou as the president of state-controlled and soon-to-be-privatised Hellenic Petroleum (ELPE). Papathanasiou was finance minister in 2009, when... of GDP. Two months later, the finance minister revised the prospects of the Greek economy for 2009
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PM seeks fine balance as he prepares to unveil latest set of fiscal measures
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKathimerini reports that the Finance Ministry is working towards a primary surplus budget for 2021... sector. One advantage the Finance Ministry has in its calculations so far is that it does not need.... The Finance Ministry decided to extend to April 30, 2021 the repayment period of debts that were deferred
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Europe missed an opportunity on banking union
Agora.” Despite the warning, finance ministers acting under Berlin’s intense pressure did just... the requests of southern European countries to allow the European Stability Mechanism to finance... and finance ministers. This means that up to 126 people could be involved in the decision-making
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Newsletter 9 - 30/12/2014
declared its complete disagreement with the measures recently proposed by the Finance Ministry... difference between the two parties involves the economic recovery process, with the Finance Ministry... state. The default option to subsequently increase T-bill issuance in order to finance ongoing
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A breakdown of the fiscal and structural reforms Greece hopes will unlock funding
EconomyProgrammeby the Finance Ministry sees GDP growth halved to 1.4 percent from the 2.9 percent growth seen in the budget..., MacroPolis understands that the Finance Ministry estimates the primary surplus could exceed 1.2 percent... fiscal impact of around 1 billion. Privatisations We believe the Finance Ministry has revised
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