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Newsletter 118 - 12/05/2017
revealed. Overall, the weighted average rate on all new deposits remained unchanged at 0.31 percent... beverages and tobacco by 2.9 percent. All other goods’ and services’ groups showed minor changes
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Full backing for multi-bill from coalition MPs, Tsipras looks to lenders for next step
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe multi-bill of measures agreed between the Greek government and its lenders passed through Parliament in Athens on Thursday night with the support of all 153 coalition MPs. There were no major surprises for the government, which had been confident that it had secured all the votes of its
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Current account deficit widens to 1.3 bln in March
EconomyMacroeconomyof the services’ balance resulted from an improvement in all subaccounts. The travel balance climbed... notably widened by 344.7 million to 1.06 billion reflecting an improvement in all subaccounts. Travel
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Athens absorbs Eurogroup fallout, hopes for better offer
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe willing to risk it all. It is more likely that he will spend the next days trying to cajole Greece’s... for the time being, just days after he secured all 153 votes from coalition lawmakers for the set
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Deposit interest rates largely unchanged in April, average loan rate increases
EconomyMacroeconomyovernight rate, the weighted average rate on all new deposits remained stable for the second straight... proprietors remained almost unchanged at 7.24 percent. The combined effect of all those changes led
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Tsipras tackles two fronts as debt talks continue
PoliticsGreek Politicspercent who think all the packages were the same, 17.55 percent who think George Papandreou’s... the government is ineffective in its debt relief negotiations. All of the above suggest
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Athens banks on French support for debt relief and growth
PoliticsGreek Politics, which would allow all the institutions to carry out their own DSAs. The second is a growth plan... prior actions. All 153 coalition MPs voted in favour of the legislation, which was tagged onto
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Current account deficit eases by 410.6 mln in April
EconomyMacroeconomyan improvement in all subaccounts. The travel balance fell by 6.1 percent to 247.1 million... widened by 441.3 million euros to 1.68 billion reflecting an improvement in all subaccounts. Travel
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Greek university system out of sync with economic reality, study finds
Societysector in Greece has all but collapsed. Over half (53 percent) of graduates from Greek universities... are not involved at all with the international trade of goods or services. Despite extremely high
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Greeks underwhelmed by deal with lenders, stressing uphill task for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicsup its efforts in the weeks ahead. By December, all the tax incentives for business will have to be re-examined while all tax breaks that are deemed unfair or ineffective will have to be scrapped
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