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Greek coalition sets out plans for public sector, wages and pensions
PoliticsGreek Politicswith a confidence vote on Monday. The government appears to have watered down some of its pre-election pledges... public broadcaster ERT, which was shut down by ex-Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in June 2013. Minimum
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Greek primary budget surplus halved in Jan as revenues miss target
Economybalance, which showed a surplus of 367 million, down 40.7 percent from last year’s figure and 919... a year ago, and much lower expenditure, at 141 million down 47 percent.
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Greece's extension proposals to the Eurogroup and what they mean
PoliticsGreek Politicsbacked down considerably from their original positions. Firstly, Greece’s request indicates that Athens... for more than 50 percent of nominal debt to be written down. In his interview with the Financial
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Tsipras identifies first bills, domestic approval assured
PoliticsGreek Politicsto Parliament next week legislation for the reopening of public broadcaster ERT, which was shut down in June... some of them have since found work at its successor, NERIT, which will shut down when the new
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Minor changes in Greek time deposit rates, higher movements in corporate loans
EconomyMacroeconomydown since then. However, due to the extended deposit outflows of 17 billion euros in December... of this year. The slight contraction in the time deposit rate led the average rate on new deposits down
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Greece: The gathering storm
Agoraof the tranches if it does not complete the review. This ties Athens down to the incredibly testing process... down to discuss the complex and extremely technical issue of the fiscal gap and any relevant
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Tsipras targets opposition in debate but parliament speaker steals the show
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe debate that the government would not back down on measures it believes are “red lines... be wavering at the thought of the government being forced to climb down in the next few days in its
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Lower spending, extra revenues result in budget execution beating targets in March
EconomyMacroeconomyto 11.18 billion, down 1.8 percent. More importantly, the revenue performance in March led to a drop... billion, down 5.3 percent and 1.18 billion below target. The year to date outperformance mainly relates
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Budget primary surplus up to 1.73 bln in Q1 as gov't holds back expenditure
EconomyMacroeconomyin February, bringing the 3-month figure to 11.18 billion, down 1.8 percent. The revenue evolution in March... billion down 5.3 percent and 1.18 billion below target. The significant outperformance to date mainly
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Greek stocks, bond yields show effects of worsening mood regarding country's prospects
Economy. As a result, despite the strong gains of 8.1 percent recorded last week, Greek shares are down by 5.5 percent...) and OPAP erased a large part of their earlier losses at the closing edging down by 0.6 percent
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