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Greek business feeling the pinch from capital controls
Economythe imposition of capital controls found total retail sales had dropped 10 percent. This reflected
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Unemployment rate fell to 25 pct in May, its lowest level in the last three years
EconomyMacroeconomyto 8.4 percent of total in June from 8.9 percent in May. The number of inactive people continued
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Bank recap and NPL management create conundrum in bailout talks
EconomyGreek banks’ possible capital needs. In addition, a total envelope of up to 25 billion euros would
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Refugee crisis poses multiple political challenges for Tsipras
PoliticsForeign Policytotal of 224,000). This represents a rise of more than 750 percent on the figures for the same period
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Capital controls take toll on car sales, which fell 23.9 pct in July for first time in two years
EconomyMacroeconomyof total road motor cars. The Attica prefecture registered more than half of the country’s road
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Greece commits to ambitious privatisation targets as part of new bailout
EconomyProgrammeIn contrast to SYRIZA’s pre-election pledges, the government has committed to proceed with an ambitious privatisation programme, according to the draft bill on the new financial aid from the eurozone. Excluding bank shares, the implementation of this programme aims to raise a total of 6.4 billion
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Tsipras bides his time on confidence vote, weighs up options
PoliticsGreek Politicsbring down the number of votes that Tsipras needs to win the ballot. The three parties have a total
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July rise of 388 mln in unpaid taxes is lowest for two years
EconomyMacroeconomy. Overall, the total stock of new and legacy tax debt rose at the slowest pace over the past two years
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A breakdown of Greece’s revised financing needs as part of its new ESM programme
EconomyProgrammebillion). At the end of July the total stock of repo operations stood at 9.7 billion and EC estimates
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Labour cost fall has not produced jobs, bemoans GSEE in study
Society, with these three sectors representing 68 percent of the total jobs losses. It also said the purchasing
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