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Amid market turbulence, Greece searches for scheme to help banks reduce bad loans
EconomyBankingeuros’ worth of bad loans. Of the total, 25 billion are earmarked for sale or securitisation, 10
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Trade deficit grows by 15.1 pct in August and falls by 1.8 pct in 8-month period
EconomyMacroeconomydeficit, bringing the total shortfall to 14.55 billion. This was driven mainly by a 17.6 percent rise
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Building permits rise by 9.8 pct in July, up by 8.4 pct in 7-month period
EconomyMacroeconomyso far. The total number of permits came to 1,521, staying above the 1,000-permit mark for a fifth
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Athens to send draft budget to Brussels after talks with IMF on pensions
EconomyProgrammein September. Of this total, 766 million euros of measures will be on the expenditure side. According
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Athens and lenders yet to agree on how to drop pension cuts without creating fiscal gap
EconomyMacroeconomy. It also expects an excess surplus of 122 mln next year (total primary surplus at 3.56 percent of GDP
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Athens aims for November agreement with lenders on pension cuts
EconomyProgrammeIncome. An additional 50 million has been earmarked for winter heating payments to take the total budget
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Athens ready to start legislating fiscal measures despite ongoing talks over 2019 budget
EconomyProgrammea combined total of 253 million euros. This is still short of the reported fiscal gap
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Parties locked in tug of war over troubled universities
Societyof 4,000 first year places was announced for the 2018/2019 academic year, raising the total
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Trade deficit jumps by 39.1 pct in September and rises by 1.4 pct in 9-month period
EconomyMacroeconomy, bringing the total shortfall to 16.39 billion. This was driven mainly by a 16.9 percent rise in exports
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Unemployment at 18.9 pct in August, unemployed remain under 1 mln
EconomyMacroeconomy, the figure for those employed increased by 85,997, a rise of 2.3 percent. Total employment reached 3.86
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