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Greece waits for tangible outcome from EU's symbolic backing over border crisis
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be accompanied by top European Union officials when he visits the Evros border region on Tuesday as Athens hopes to receive more than just symbolic support... is hoping that it will lead to more than just symbolic or verbal support, which Mitsotakis also
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Unemployment drops to 16.3 pct in December
EconomyMacroeconomyfor January showed that there were 17,318 more firings than hirings. Compared to the same month last year, there were 5,015 more people hired than fired. Ergani noted that the month of January has
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Regulatory and legal challenges from the increased penetration of LNG
Legalan increase of more than 10 million tonnes is expected in 2020. According to the New York Times, LNG imports... in the Terminal by more than one, the user must pay the Operator a charge of 200.000 euro per
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MoF to announce measures for safeguarding businesses impacted by COVID19
Economy400 percent in customers shopping online rather than visiting stores, with a significant increase... dropped by 34 percent, and more than 12 billion euros have been lost from total market
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Mitsotakis enjoys growing popular backing at home, as efforts intensify to defuse border crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsto Turkey for the more than 3 million refugees currently living in the country. Hahn noted that the funding was likely to be less than the previous package, and that its disbursement would be conditional
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OECD Better Life report finds Greece still lagging in life satisfaction
Societypercent of poor households in Greece spent more than 40 percent of their income on housing... in Greece fare notably better than young people for employment, earnings and voter turnout among others
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Building permits increase by 50.3 pct in December and 12.6 pct in 2019
EconomyMacroeconomy. The total for 2019 is roughly 82 percent lower than the 2005 peak. Much of the current building activity also concerns refurbishments rather than new building projects. The vast majority of building
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Government readies up to 2 bln in assistance for shuttered firms and employees
Economythat growth, which the government expected to reach 2.8 pct this year (higher than the European Commission’s forecast of 2.3 pct), could be up to 0.9 percentage points lower than anticipated. In its
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More restrictions on way as Athens revels in ECB decision
PoliticsGreek Politics-off, emergency scheme rather than a regular ECB QE programme. Also, the fact that New Democracy has a cash buffer of more than 30 billion euros at its disposal, which it inherited from the previous
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Newsletter 245 -27/03/2020
the use of scarce equipment rather than protect frontline workers’ health. Similar concerns were... of respondents said that they were receiving significantly less orders than before. For all sectors reporting
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