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Who benefits from Greece’s return to the markets?
Agorathe rush to snap up the new five-year Greek bond was reminiscent of a stampede. In the same week that Pakistan returned to debt markets after an absence of more than seven years, the first Greek bond... with portfolios devoid of Greek debt. What does this mismatch tell us? Clearly
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Greece and lenders talk at cross purposes, head for crisis summit
PoliticsGreek Politicsafter eurozone finance ministers were unable to make any headway, and with Greek deposit outflows continuing at pace. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis appeared annoyed that his new proposals... of what was proposed by the Greek side. There are references to the creation of a fiscal council
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Newsletter 415 - 08/03/2024
Article 16 of the Greek Constitution, which states that only institutions that are public legal... of Greek students leaving to study abroad and creating a market for private higher education... to circumvent Article 16 of the Greek Constitution. Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis accused
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Newsletter 75 - 27/05/2016
rise in the event that Greek politicians or the public view the conditionality attached... as representing the Greek elites. Central government debt eases Greece’s central government debt eased... the course of the Greek crisis the task of finding whose goals have been met at the Eurogroup has been
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After Merkel, Samaras faces immediate challenges on domestic front
PoliticsGreek Politicson Friday, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is back in the thick of things in Greece, where his... was not a ringing endorsement for the Greek prime minister or his country’s prospects but it was probably... the Greek prime minister also wanted to emphasise that he intends to hold the eurozone to its
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The Cyprus bailout is different, not only due to the bail-in
AgoraThe Cyprus programme as agreed in March 2013 was different from the Greek and other eurozone.... There are distinguishable divergences from the Greek memorandum that allow us to identify the change... Christofias between 2008 and 2013. In general terms it seems similar to the Greek second bailout
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Troika inquiry: talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey
Agora’s judgment on specific reforms – such as dismantling Greek workers’ bargaining power in the labor... of borrowing binge: by Greek politicians, Irish bankers, Spanish property developers, Portuguese... stops” in Europe. Capital turned and fled for home, cutting off liquidity for one periphery country
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New Democracy and SYRIZA draw battle lines for European elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsissues. Not unusually for Greek politics, even a sportsman managed to make it onto the list... to tap into the general disquiet with the political system among Greek voters and to mirror the success... stability and uncertainty. In a less stark version of the euro vs drachma dilemma put to Greek voters
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21,717,120,000
AgoraGerman coffers since the Greek crisis started in 2010. It corresponds to Germany’s portion... from the euro mess. Four years on, its treasury is actually better off and has been a net... around the Greek crisis and the events in Cyprus through his blog The Prodigal Greek, which earned him
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Alpha Bank reports lower losses of 115.8 mln in Q1 2015
EconomyBankingincome and one-off expenses – rebounded 17.9 percent QoQ to 294.6 million largely attributed... to 0.94 percent largely stemming from a similar rise in the Greek time deposit spread. Lower NII led... led by Greek operations (-21.1 percent), while general expenses posted a much slower drop by 2.8
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