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Tracing the decline of the middle class as parties vie for its votes
EconomyFeatures, with the exception of the lowest earners who saw their tax increase threefold between 2012-2014 (though from.... Households earning 12,000-16,000 euros saw their tax increased by 21 percent in 2012-2014 and 26 percent..., Tsakalotos’s alternate minister Giorgos Houliarakis, gifted the opposition a winning card when he told
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Banks tout ambitious NPE plans to return to European mainstream
EconomyBankingsaw their 2020 results propped by bond swaps with the Greek state. That saw them book trading gains...Greece’s banks have started what was set to be a difficult year for them by winning plaudits for their progress towards meeting tough goals for reducing the stock of non-performing exposures. Last
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KINAL edges towards more central role in political developments
PoliticsGreek Politicsof elections in the next 18 months is starting to concentrate people’s minds. New Democracy saw its... of MEP Androulakis as its new leader in December – the centre-left party saw its ratings increase... the polls suggest, the chances of the leftist winning the next elections are extremely slim
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Newsletter 386 - 23/06/2023
apartments - over five years old - saw their prices increase by 15.6 pct YoY. New properties saw price... suggest that up to nine parties have a chance of winning seats, although no more than seven have a strong
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Company closures dropped sharply during the pandemic
EconomyFeaturesand retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles” which saw 8,082 closures. While that may seem... actually dropped 18.9 percent. In fact, only one sector saw an increase in the number of closures in 2020: electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, which saw an increase of 26.4 percent
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Newsletter 46 - 09/10/2015
and parliament who are prepared to invest political capital and mobilise the administrative capacity to engage..., but time is a luxury. The second Syriza-led government will have to engage in repair work on its
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Prior actions, pending actions and milestones along the bumpy road
Agorawho are prepared to invest political capital and mobilise the administrative capacity to engage..., but time is a luxury. The second SYRIZA-led government will have to engage in repair work on its
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Erdogan makes forceful start to visit, catches Athens off guard
PoliticsForeign Policycompounded the feeling that the Greek government would have preferred Pavlopoulos not to engage... on stronger bilateral ties to engage with Ankara. However, the start to Erdogan’s trip suggests
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EU Council sidesteps sanctions, puts focus on constructive Greek-Turkish talks
PoliticsGreek Politics, and calls on Turkey to accept the invitation by Cyprus to engage in dialogue with the objective... and Cypriot courts, calling for Athens to engage with Ankara in exploratory talks over the delimitation
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Athens wary as exploratory talks with Turkey approach
PoliticsForeign Policyadded. Ideally for Greece a time to re-engage in a new round - the 61st - of exploratory talks could...,” said Dendias. Either way, it appears certain that in the weeks to come Athens will engage in new
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