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Grave OPEKEPE claims add to climate of mistrust affecting ND, political system
PoliticsGreek Politicsaudits showing producers declaring pastures on islands without title deeds. Tycheropoulou alleged...The ongoing parliamentary inquiry into the OPEKEPE scandal continues to produce revelations that could be severely damaging for the government, which has been engaged in a constant firefighting
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Government suffers as farmers vow to continue protests
PoliticsGreek Politicsto livestock farmers, wheat producers, and cotton growers — those “who really need them”. The hard line taken... the weekend to allow free passage, and distributing produce to citizens. Farmers pledged to ease actions
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What this week's VAT changes mean for household budgets and public coffers
EconomyProgramme. Although VAT rates remained broadly stable, the key changes relate to reshuffling of products...) and water (excluding sewage). All other products and services fall under the basic rate of 23... and not fully passed on to customers. Basic food products include meat (excluding beef), fish, milk
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Tourism and exports expect impact from Brexit fallout
EconomyMacroeconomy, since the UK is the 7th largest destination for Greek products. It is also the 14th largest.... Industrial products account for more than 62 percent of Greek exports to the UK followed by agricultural and petroleum products, which make up almost 30 and more than 8 percent respectively
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Newsletter 458 - 04/04/2025
on its products sold to the US. This comes following the 25 pct tariffs imposed on aluminum and steel... in 2023, running a small surplus of 268.2 million euros. For industrial products fuels lead with over.... For agricultural products, olive exports were 212 million in 2024, while cheese and olive oil were
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Trump's tariffs create gloomy economic environment for vulnerable Greece
EconomyMacroeconomyreciprocal tariffs across the globe, with the EU being hit with 20 pct on its products sold... surplus of 268.2 million euros. For industrial products fuels lead with over half a billion euros... products, olive exports were 212 million in 2024, while cheese and olive oil were 74 and 68 million euros
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Five things to take away from the first round of Greek local elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe first round of municipal and regional elections in Greece on Sunday produced some surprises but few definitive answers about how the country will vote in the European Parliament polls on May 25... before. The graph below produced by Public Issue suggests SYRIZA saw a 13.2 percentage point increase
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Newsletter 86 - 02/09/2016
produced a much-needed boost for the public coffers. Tsipras’s speech will be watched closely... one of the bidders, who attracted negative media attention over securing public contracts, produced
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Greek 2017 primary surplus confirmed at 4 pct, well above target
EconomyMacroeconomy. The data was produced under the new Regulation ESA 2010 for the System of National Accounts. ELSTAT makes... data and in the reference year Greece produced a total surplus of 1.45 billion euros, which translates
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Newsletter 159 -27/04/2018
Deficit Procedure (EDP) notification of 2018. The data was produced under the new Regulation ESA... produced a total surplus of 1.45 billion euros, which translates into 0.8 percent of GDP. The primary
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