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Easter timing pushes retail sales down markedly in May with -4.4 pct YoY fall
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s retail sales had a sharp drop of 4.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) in May, after marked growth of 7.4 percent in April, Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) data showed on Thursday. The corresponding volume index also had a significant drop of 5.6 percent YoY, from a 7.4 percent jump
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PM adds minimum wage hike to pre-election promises, with hints of more to come
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA for slandering the country and questioning the work of the police. SYRIZA, however, is refusing
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Kasselakis offers more hints of a positive narrative for SYRIZA's post-Tsipras era
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe weekend has raised the subject of rising anti-LGBT+ violence. On Saturday, police made 21 arrests after
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Putting right everything that went wrong in Mati
Agora, was closed (just for a few minutes, according to the police) and many cars ended up... a disorganised news conference three days after the fire (where government officials, police and fire... be advisable for Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to stop his government from digging a deeper hole for itself
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Stress and strain for gov't from farmers protests, police appointments
PoliticsGreek Politics. The government also received a rough ride as a result of a shake-up of the top officers in the police
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Mitsotakis picks way through Feb challenges with support for farmers, fixity on universities
PoliticsGreek Politicsto change Greece at all levels”. There were, however, hints of concessions on some fronts.... The minister said the government would not respond to “provocations” by sending the police into university campuses. New Democracy had legislated the creation of a campus police force in its first
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PM burnishes conservative credentials with focus on day-to-day issues, law and order
PoliticsGreek Politicsalso pledges to fight what he calls the “deep state”, which he hints is standing in the way... internal disorder in the form of campus protests. The PM said the police had intervened to break up a pro... to impose law and order in public universities. On Tuesday, police arrested 28 protesters at Athens Law
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Newsletter 445 - 13/12/2024
Konstantopoulou’s Course of Freedom garners 4.4 pct, Yanis Varoufakis’s MERa25 2 pct and New Left, formed... these two fringe parties on 5.7 pct.EconomyBudget exudes fiscal stability, but hints at political
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Our daily bread
Agorathan the negativity that threatens to sweep us away. That is why Dionysis Arvanitakis, the baker... at some of the refugee centres contrasts starkly with the gleaming pureness of the Kos baker getting
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Cyprus cable dispute and Crete mafia case cast fresh clouds over TIF reset agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicsnetwork operating in western Crete. Police have made dozens of arrests in connection with arms and drug.... The former minister, who withdrew from frontline politics after losing the 2019 elections, also hints
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