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With review stalled, Athens continues to be coy on concessions
PoliticsGreek Politicsit might be perceived. The survey, for the iefimerida news website, put New Democracy ahead on 28.6 percent... as more suited to being prime minister than the incumbent, Alexis Tsipras, who only garners 20.5 percent
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IMF sees much scope for reform progress, particularly on tax in Article IV report
EconomyProgrammeflexible labour market framework must be avoided as it would put the potential gains for investment... burden allowing more than half of wage earners to exempt from paying personal income tax compared
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Tsakalotos role under scrutiny as talks become more tense
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe counter-balanced by expansionary interventions put forward by the Greek side. Tsakalotos also.... Nevertheless, at this stage this appears nothing more than a minor disagreement in a party that is used
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The scenarios ahead for Greece as review hangs in balance
PoliticsGreek Politicsmajority. If they win and gain more than 150 seats in the Greek Parliament, Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s party... it to exit the MoU when it expires in the summer of 2018. However, if the debt agreement is put off
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Progress seen after Brussels talks but review conclusion still out of reach
PoliticsGreek Politicsthis might put more pressure on its European lenders to force the International Monetary Fund to let up... a price to pay for a nothing more than a token gesture. On Thursday evening, he sent a letter to European
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Wait continues for agreement on measures, tension builds in Athens
PoliticsGreek Politics, rather than spreading it over a couple of years. This fragile arrangement seems to have been upset... reports that this week’s events have put further strain on the relationship between Tsakalotos
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PMI falls to 46.7 in Mar on drop in new orders but outlook positive for next months
EconomyMacroeconomycompared to the previous month amid political and economic uncertainty, which put further pressure... weaker than the 70-month high posted in January. However, the average selling prices declined
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Debt talks to be prime focus after Easter
PoliticsGreek Politicsinvolvement in the Greek programme, which would also put debt relief at risk, seemed to be allayed.... While this may be less than Tsipras and his party would ideally want, it still represents
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Rising tension in Western Balkans add to diplomatic concerns
PoliticsForeign Policyzone in which other actors have more influence than the European Union.” Additionally, many in both... had been put to rest, such as the Cham question. Trapped in its own financial difficulties
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Govt hopes counter-measures, debt relief talks enough to escape multi-bill maelstrom
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat this could put on the Greek economy. It has not gone unnoticed, for instance, that Athens has revised this year’s growth projection to just 1.8 percent of GDP, which is lower than the European
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