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Newsletter 86 - 26/08/2016
a new ten-year bank loan of 360 million at an interest rate of Euribor plus 150 basis points... percent in 2009, almost four in ten Greeks are now facing material deprivation in terms of basic standards... considerations have played an important part in shaping them. The last few years have also seen
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Multiple facets of inequality in Greece: a decade of divergence between data and daily life
Society). According to the evidence, nearly seven in ten Greeks report struggling or greatly struggling to make..., compared with 19–34% for higher-income groups. Nearly nine in ten poor households face an “overburden... role in shaping outcomes. Success in the university entrance (Panhellenic) exams is closely tied
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Healthy eating and smoking on decline in Greece over last five years
Societyof ten over 75s consuming vegetables daily, compared to just half of 15 to 24 year olds. Eight out of ten people over 15 consumed red meat up to twice per week. As the 2014 collected information... they consumed 11–20 cigarettes a day, while three in ten smoked up to ten. About one in five smoked
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The challenge in Greece: Funding an emerging economic recovery
Agorawhere we have come from and how long it took until the “promised land” was finally reached again... of this recovery. Scraping together new funding resources and instruments remains the order of the day
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Border furor highlights brittleness of Greek-Turkish relations
PoliticsForeign Policyof the Meriç/Evros river which delineates the Turkish-Greek land border in 1926 has changed significantly... of the construction of a fence in the “Feres sector” of Turkey-Greece land border”. Greece had indeed... to ensure that the land border is not violated”. On May 13, as Mr Aksoy notes, Greece initiated land
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Defence spending, economic support plans dominate PM's policy speech
PoliticsGreek Politics, new torpedoes for the navy, guided missiles for the air force and anti-tank weapons for the land... pct of GDP and with public debt scaling back up towards 200 pct of GDP, by saying that he owes
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Macron visit to herald deepening of Greek-French defence and energy ties
PoliticsForeign PolicyBarracuda submarines valued at 5.5 billion euros to cooperation in land systems via KNDS, including..., Athens views its alignment with Paris as a means of amplifying its voice in shaping EU defence policy... and shaping the contours of Europe’s next chapter.
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Greek leaders' contrasting visions all a blur
Agoraof the criticisms of the proposal, though, is that municipalities with high value land and properties... them. The greatest shame of all is that Greece has waited almost a decade to start shaping its
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Government on alert again as farming subsidy probe zeroes in on two ex-ministers
PoliticsGreek Politicsland, which was then used to activate and maintain their payment entitlements. Such illegal practice... considerable power in shaping how investigations are carried out and to what extent its politicians
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Newsletter 491 - 23/01/2026
) have vast land resources and much lower production costs. By contrast, Greek farms are typically... — hailed Mitsotakis’s restraint as strategic wisdom. This ideological tug‑of‑war is now shaping Greece’s
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