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Tsipras raises debt relief at UN but refugee crisis may prove more pressing issue
PoliticsForeign Policy, it was reported that a number of central and eastern European member states feel Greece should... the next few days, with an appearance at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting. Tsipras sat
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New Democracy targets SYRIZA over law and order, independent institutions
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis took a walk in central Athens on Friday to visit some stores that were vandalised... inquiry into the affair. The committee sat for the first time on Monday and members voted for its
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Newsletter 170 -13/07/2018
period unveiled European Central Bank president Mario Draghi confirmed at the start of the week..., the European Central Bank, the European Stability Mechanism (under its Early Warning System... revealed. June’s reduction brings the total for central bank funding to 16.31 billion euros
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Primary cash balance posts deficit of 316 mln in first 5 months
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s central government primary cash balance turned to a deficit of 316 million euros in the first five months of 2017 from a surplus of 2.66 billion last year, Bank of Greece (BoG) data revealed... of the year. It is noted that, excluding arrears’ payments, the respective figure dropped by 277 million
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Primary cash surplus at 20.34 bln in November as revenues grow
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s central government primary cash balance recorded a surplus of 20.34 billion euros in the first eleven months of the year, Bank of Greece (BoG) figures have shown. The headline figure... million euros to stand at 253 million. On an aggregate basis, interest payments showed a decline of 277
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Newsletter 188 -21/12/2018
fiscal balance going forward Greece’s central government primary cash balance recorded a surplus... payments showed a decline of 277 million euros to come to 5.19 billion euros. Overall expenditure from
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General govt primary deficit at 3.87 bln in March; spending soars
EconomyMacroeconomycompared with a year earlier, followed by transfers, which were 277 million euros lower. Taxes... of the total, hospitals made up the largest part of the arrears in March. Debt Central government gross debt
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Athens warned about missing fiscal targets rather than changing them unilaterally
EconomyProgrammeAMNA, the central banker also spoke to the Financial Times about the possible derailment of public..., causing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to hit back during a speech in Lamia, central Greece, on Thursday... (who represented Greece in Thursday’s Eurogroup), gave a more technocratic response to the central
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Institutions prepare for Athens return, completion of fourth review
EconomyProgramme. There was an interesting interjection from the European Central Bank’s representative Benoit Coeure, who argued.... The central banker also stressed that although progress has been made on electronic auctions.... Eurogroup president Mario Centeno announced after the meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Sofia
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Amid Eurogroup stalemate, Athens focusses on extra liquidity available after ECB move
Economy, although Greece did secure a boost from the European Central Bank, which decided to allow Greek sovereign bonds to be used as collateral by local banks. Eurogroup president Mario Centeno announced... its earlier decision to include Greek government bonds in the PEPP. The eurozone’s central bank
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