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Job hirings at record high of 24,938 in Feb, negative employment balance for year-to-date
EconomyMacroeconomyhirings stood at 138,242 in February and outpaced a total of 113,304 departures, of which more than half... employment made up less than 45 percent of the total figure.
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Slow progress on fiscal, impasse on labour keep review deal on hold
PoliticsGreek Politicsagreement ahead of the April 7 Eurogroup rather than the one on March 20. Finance Ministry sources told... than the reduction of the tax-free threshold, each of which are currently slated to yield 1 percent
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Sceptical mood in SYRIZA, pending agreement with creditors
PoliticsGreek Politicsto evaluate the progress on reducing PPC’s market share will be in December, rather than June as had been... after reports that there was intense scepticism among more than 40 SYRIZA MPs who were briefed
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New overdue taxes rise by 1.6 bln in Jan, total stock at 93.4 bln
EconomyMacroeconomybillion in January, of which more than three quarters stemmed from companies (39.4 billion..., which is proportionally higher than the monthly average of 206 million in 2016. The collection of new
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New attempt to get Cyprus talks back on track
PoliticsForeign Policyready to engage in a new round of talks, which have been stalled for more than a month. Speaking... and Turkish Cypriots have no other choice than to cooperate" and to discuss a solution. "No solution
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Current account deficit narrows to 271 mln in Jan
EconomyMacroeconomythat more than offset an increase in the goods’ deficit by 321.8 million. The deterioration... in January from 6.54 billion in December, while increased by more than 750 million from the January
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Concerns over energy deregulation add to challenges Tsipras faces
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the government than the unionists. The fact that there are five MPs in the group means that it would... threshold. The minister said that the positive aspects of the agreement would more than make up
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Banks saw asset quality and liquidity trends improve in Q4 but process interrupted in 2017
Agorawas reduced by more than 2.2 billion QoQ to 80.4 billion euros, with the NPL ratio landing at 34.8... at a slower rate than NPLs. It declined by 1.6 billion euros QoQ to almost 112 billion, while the NPE
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ESM takes stock of Greece's sovereign vulnerability
EconomyProgrammevalues for the scores, ESM noted that a score of less than 2 corresponds to high vulnerability, between... best score of 2.4 in the fiscal position category is higher than that for Spain and Portugal
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Tsipras clears with relative ease first domestic hurdle to getting deal approved
PoliticsGreek Politics, rather than raising specific objections to the measures the government will have to adopt. Also... simply wanted to register their concerns rather than create a flashpoint and undermine government
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