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Deadly floods raise questions about ND's civil protection pledges as Covid-19 accelerates
PoliticsGreek Politicsto address this issue, making the reorganisation of civil protection one of its first moves. As events..., the checks and fines, and the efforts to encourage compliance, especially the young, will pay off
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No let-up in tension with Turkey as MPs prepare to approve maritime boundary deals
PoliticsGreek Politicsto vote “present” (similar to abstaining) in one of the ballots after some prevarication over what... a right to a continental shelf and EEZ because it lies just off the coast of Turkey. SYRIZA has accused
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Parties debate pandemic response as public approval deteriorates
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe parliamentary season kicked off on Monday with a special session on the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The party leaders’ debate, which was held at the request of KINAL leader... response so far, stressing that despite a recent surge in cases Greece has maintained one of the lowest
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Moria fire propels migration issue back to top of political agenda
PoliticsGreek Politics. As of Wednesday, a state of emergency has been declared. Clearly, one of the immediate challenges authorities... that it was beginning to shake off some of the pressure it had been under regarding this issue. Speaking
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BoG sees 7.5 pct recession, EU funds boosting GDP by 1.9 pct annually
Economyin place, Greek systemic banks are expected to shed more than 30 billion of NPE off their books via securitisations assisted by state guarantees. Eurobank has already completed one such transaction worth
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Heading for talks with Turkey, Athens sets expectations low
PoliticsGreek Politics. One aide to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the Greek media: “Obviously, diplomacy.... It notes that the insistence from Athens that talks would begin “when the provocations stop” has paid off
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Landmark Golden Dawn verdict welcomed by parties, obscuring underlying divisions
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat moment on, a combination of the criminal investigation, the cutting off of state funding for the party... their opposition to fascism in one of the largest gatherings of its kind in Greece over the last few years
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Newsletter 268 -09/10/2020
one murder. The killing of Pavlos Fyssas in September 2013 finally precipitated the arrest..., which is way off the 4.7 pct baseline recession scenario assumed in April and slightly above the 7.9 pct
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Growing concerns over second lockdown in food service sector, a key employer
EconomyFeaturespercent is not off the table. Given the size of the catering industry and others indirectly connected... of the industry, pointing out that one in three businesses in the industry are on the verge
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Updated IMF DSA sees Greek debt as sustainable in medium-term, risks over long-term
EconomyMacroeconomythat could throw the baseline scenario off track. Of the total stock of 339 billion euros at the end.... Of the private debt, GGBs were just 13 pct of the total. This is one of the factors that speaks to the great
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