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Economic sentiment up in Jan, consumer confidence plunges by 6 pts
EconomyMacroeconomyand the recent high was the 111.4 points of August 2023. Over the rolling 12-month period, the ESI... marginally by 0.4 points to 115.4. The EEI is down by 1.5 points in the rolling 12-month period... dropped sharply by 5.6 points to 37.7. Services confidence is now over 21 points up on the rolling
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Sentiment falls sharply in Feb, consumer confidence continues to slide
EconomyMacroeconomywas the 111.4 points of August 2023. Over the rolling 12-month period, the ESI in February was down by roughly... by 3.5 points in the rolling 12-month period. Industry confidence remained in negative territory to -4.4... on the rolling 12-month. Retail trade recovered strongly by almost 7 points to 17.5, now down by 5.5
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Ex-minister's jailing a boost for faltering sense of justice
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFormer Defence Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos was jailed for 20 years on Monday after being found guilty of money laundering. Although the ex-PASOK veteran will serve only a fraction of this sentence, his conviction is notable moment in Greek politics as it is the first time a frontline political
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SYRIZA MP asks: Just how will we find the money?
PoliticsGreek PoliticsCritics have levelled the accusation at SYRIZA many times but the party’s veteran MP, Manolis Glezos, has broken new ground by being the first leftist lawmaker to express doubts about just where SYRIZA is going to find the money to fulfil its policy pledges. “People ask me about where we will find
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In clearest statement yet, Tsipras says he'd keep euro
PoliticsGreek Politicsconsumption in Tsipras's Austin speech. Last week, party veteran Manolis Glezos criticized his party
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DIMAR faces struggle to survive in 2014, a year of elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsas the party’s new secretary. It has the appearance of a last throw of the dice by the veteran leftist
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Fraud probe at Hellenic Postbank a sign of bigger things to come?
PoliticsGreek Politicsrarely tries politicians. For many Greeks, though, there was a fear that the ex-PASOK veteran would
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SYRIZA's bid to force elections by early 2015 will be a close-run thing
PoliticsGreek Politicscould be a suitable candidate but the veteran leftist immediately knocked back the proposal
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Omnibus bill passes but leaves marks on coalition and SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicson the futures of his party’s two rebels, who were veteran lawmaker Apostolos Kaklamanis and former
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Greek coalition reaches milestones but PASOK looking increasingly weary
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGeorge Papandreou and veteran Apostolos Kaklamanis, were not ejected from PASOK. By all accounts
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