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Budget primary shows deficit of 9.06 bln in October
EconomyMacroeconomyactivity due to the health crisis, the impact of measures taken to counter this effect and the increased... by 1.68 billion. Aggregate PIB expenditure came to 7.01 billion, overshooting the target by 2.28 billion
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SYRIZA encounters first obstacles in governing with minority of MPs
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) earlier this month. In a vote of Parliament’s public organisations committee on Wednesday, the government was not able to obtain approval for the candidate it wanted to appoint as head... of an ANEL MP during the “in principle” ballot meant that there was a danger of the draft law not having
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Samaras buys some time with request for confidence vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsto Samaras if he wanted to call SYRIZA's bluff where to bring forward the presidential vote or to ask... for election. Obtaining the minimum of 180 votes will still be a tall order. The confidence vote
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MPs prepare to vote on name deal, although delays are possible
PoliticsGreek Politicsneed to gather 151 votes to bring down the government. Even though Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader... On the domestic political front, Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Fofi Gennimata is facing a tall
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Newsletter 161 -11/05/2018
on Athens is facing a tall order with the deadline for prior actions to be completed in a timely manner.... This demonstrates the multiplier effect that tourism has on the economy, in that for every 1 euro... overall employment. Factoring in the industry’s multiplier effect, the report concludes that tourism
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Resignations over EU subsidy scandal deliver new blow to PM, further tarnishing image
PoliticsGreek Politicsunder further scrutiny. A possible welcome side-effect of recent developments for Mitsotakis... an impact on the government’s standing with voters, the overall effect of the OPEKEPE scandal looks... put ND on a trajectory that makes a third parliamentary majority look like an increasingly tall order
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Tsipras seeks assurances that coalition will remain united for time being
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter days of mounting tension between SYRIZA and its coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL..., the message that Tsipras wanted to send was one of unity, even if that togetherness is a product of political... the right to ask for a no-confidence vote in Greek Parliament from mid-December onwards. An ANEL
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Newsletter 59 - 22/01/2016
having adopted the bailout and agreed to implement it, appears to be having a binding effect. Tsipras... failing was not having a clear idea of what it wanted to achieve or how to achieve it. Looking back... was not having a clear idea of what it wanted to achieve or one, at least, that was representative of the harsh
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Athens turns attention to Libya, advocates EastMed energy cooperation
PoliticsForeign Policyel Mangus with whom he has frequent personal contacts. In fact Dendias organised last week a working... with the participation of el Mangus. This was the first time Greece participated in a meeting on Libya, which aimed
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Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s coalition has two more hurdles to clear before it stumbles over the finishing line at the end of the year, exhausted and battered but not quite yet beaten. The first challenge is to pass... are presumably softer than those that would have been demanded by the troika, which wanted
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