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On monetary policy and inflation targeting
Agorainflation period). All countries live in only one global economy, after all. Country A was slightly... in Country A has foreshadowed additional interest rate increases aiming to pinch off a bigger upside... targets the price level, so it is expecting that monetary policy will continue to tighten to ease off
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Rise of small parties creates pre- and post-election complications
PoliticsGreek Politicsa point down on its May 25 result, SYRIZA 19.2 pct, almost one point down, and PASOK 11.1 pct, again... for Skai TV, suggests that MeRA25 is still a long way off the 3 pct threshold and that seven parties... government will be one of “many colours”. In other words, he plans to bring in figures from outside
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For Stournaras, it's out of the frying pan and into the heating oil
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the coalition government. One of the more contentious fiscal measures of the last three years... the public that it is reducing taxes, not just raising them. One only has to look at the time..., or at very best an effort to bypass him so the government can show MPs and voters that it made an effort
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PM brings law and order back onto agenda as foreign policy issues dominate
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the public. According to MRB, 55.5 pct of those questioned thought it was either a “extremely good,” “very... months to be one of the top concerns for Greeks. There was also a reminder this week of how quickly... that no more than one round of voting will be required.
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Newsletter 18 - 06/03/2015
joke. “And now for one member state, all the men need to take off their ties,” said European... more evident as time passes. One of these is a result of Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis straying... of economic issues than most within SYRIZA. One of the matters on which his opinion deviates from
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One in two Greek households rely on pensions to make ends meet
SocietyThe main, and in many cases only, source of income for almost half of Greek households are pensions, whereas they rely on salaries most in just one in three cases, according to a new survey. The poll... to the survey, 40.2 percent of households (approximately 1.4 million), have at least one member who
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S&P upgrades Greece one notch to B, sees growth in 2015
EconomyStandard and Poor’s (S&P) upgraded today Greece’s long-term rating by one notch to ‘B’ from ‘B-‘ with a stable outlook and reflects its view that risks to fiscal consolidation have abated...’ on August 2 and of Fitch by one notch to ‘B’ on May 23. Moody’s rating stands two notches lower than
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Tsipras needs to sign a deal, but which one?
AgoraItalian forces to enter the country in 1940, as well as referencing one of the country’s greatest poets... to implement one of the most drastic fiscal adjustment programmes the world has ever known has
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Greek train firm TRAINOSE attracts just one bid, no interest in rolling stock
EconomyThe Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) announced on Wednesday afternoon that only one binding offer was submitted for the sale of 100 percent stake in TRAINOSE (operation and management... million euros. Ferrovie group, one of the leading industries in Italy, posted revenues of 8.6 billion
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Greece's pursuit of normality has only one starting point
AgoraParliamentary Committee in early April 2015. · The justice system is one of the least efficient in Europe... to is not Greece but Cyprus. Cyprus is one of the adjustment programme graduates and is often held up as a role
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