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Building permits up by 1 pct in April and 5.2 pct in first four months of the year
EconomyMacroeconomynumber of permits came to 13,847. Although this is higher than that for 2016, it remains around 86 percent lower than the peak of 95,730 permits issued in 2005. The most recent quarterly Bank of Greece
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New Democracy fires back at Tsipras over corruption allegations
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor more than 7 billion euros worth of business and personal loans each year. The prime minister’s... suggests there is less opposition to the agreement with Skopje than other polls have indicated as 44
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Sales of HELPE, DESFA and shipyard progress while protests hamper ROSCO, PPC
EconomyProgrammeprivatisation roadmap, since the deal has been plagued by delays, collapsed tenders and lower than..., or less than a quarter of the target.
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Mitsotakis warns party to be ready for elections as political contest intensifies
PoliticsGreek Politicsto a fourth MoU rather than making a break from the past. This argument will seem much less convincing..., the note issued by the Finance Ministry does not reveal anything other than the fact that for the time
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Banks try to build on growing confidence
EconomyBankingwill support the country’s four banks in managing the NPEs of more than 300 Greek SMEs through... percent to 37.2 billion from Q2 2017 until the end of 2019, higher than the previous target by 2.2
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Building permits up by 4.4 pct in May and 5.3 pct in first five months
EconomyMacroeconomy, the absolute number of permits came to 13,847. Although this is higher than that for 2016, it remains around 86 percent lower than the peak of 95,730 permits issued in 2005. The most recent quarterly Bank
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Tsipras bids farewell to MoU, eyes new start for Greece and SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras delivered on Tuesday his long-awaited speech to mark the end of Greece’s third bailout, suggesting the country has a chance to make a new start after completing more than eight years... on Tuesday and made numerous references to Odysseus’s journey in his speech, which lasted less than eight
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Focus turns to first post-MoU visit by creditors and talks on pension cuts
EconomyProgrammeapplications are being addressed at a faster rate than in the past. According to the minister, around 70... by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the Thessaloniki Expo in less than three weeks. This will all
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Tsipras conducts varied reshuffle in further bid to revitalise coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat turned out to be much more difficult than it expected. It is unlikely, though... he can win back support than Tuesday’s cabinet changes. Recent developments, though, mean that he
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Mitsotakis plans cuts to pension contributions, aims to add private element to system
PoliticsGreek Politics-based so that those who work longer get larger pensions than those who work less. Also, he said... their contributions and see what interest they earn, rather than worrying about whether they will receive any
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