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Kammenos claims approval of name deal a make-or-break moment for coalition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy on the spot, rather than his coalition partner SYRIZA. One of the interpretations... insisted that there is no constitutional or other need for anything more than a simple majority
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Unemployment rate edges up to 20.2 pct in April as number of employed dips
EconomyMacroeconomythe Labour Ministry’s Ergani database for June showed that there were 33,620 more hirings than..., the employment balance showed 298,171 more hirings than departures. Ergani noted that the balance for the first
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Building permits up by 1 pct in April and 5.2 pct in first four months of the year
EconomyMacroeconomynumber of permits came to 13,847. Although this is higher than that for 2016, it remains around 86 percent lower than the peak of 95,730 permits issued in 2005. The most recent quarterly Bank of Greece
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Athens gets first taste of Erdogan's new era in power
PoliticsForeign Policyand the way it handles Greek–Turkish relations is sometimes worse than Erdogan”. Nevertheless, relations... than before the meeting,” though he made no reference to any commitment by Ankara on this issue
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New Democracy fires back at Tsipras over corruption allegations
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor more than 7 billion euros worth of business and personal loans each year. The prime minister’s... suggests there is less opposition to the agreement with Skopje than other polls have indicated as 44
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Higher education in Greece needs radical overhaul to create labour-relevant workforce, study says
Societyin 2017 versus 39 percent in 2009) than it is for those with higher education (29 percent in 2017... euros higher than the average monthly salary in the private sector. Recommendations IOBE concludes
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Sales of HELPE, DESFA and shipyard progress while protests hamper ROSCO, PPC
EconomyProgrammeprivatisation roadmap, since the deal has been plagued by delays, collapsed tenders and lower than..., or less than a quarter of the target.
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Mitsotakis warns party to be ready for elections as political contest intensifies
PoliticsGreek Politicsto a fourth MoU rather than making a break from the past. This argument will seem much less convincing..., the note issued by the Finance Ministry does not reveal anything other than the fact that for the time
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New overdue taxes rise by 428 mln in June, total stock above 102 bln
EconomyMacroeconomythan the figure for the same period last year by around 283 million (-5.2 percent). After rising... collection measures or could have such measures enforced against them, leaving slightly less than a quarter
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Banks try to build on growing confidence
EconomyBankingwill support the country’s four banks in managing the NPEs of more than 300 Greek SMEs through... percent to 37.2 billion from Q2 2017 until the end of 2019, higher than the previous target by 2.2
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