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Car market starts year on the up, with 6.7 pct rise in Jan
EconomyMacroeconomyRoad motor vehicles going into circulation for the first time opened the new year with a growth rate of 8.6 percent year-on-year (YoY) in January, after a 24.8 percent rise in December, according... increased by 18.3 percent from a year earlier to 4,953. In the full year 2023, road motor cars had risen
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Record year for tourism in 2023 with 20.46 bln in receipts, 32.74 mln visitors
EconomyMacroeconomy, compared to 243.1 million euros in 2022, up 41.5 percent year-on-year. Travel payments rose by 30 per.... For the full year 2023, travel receipts increased by 15.7 percent to 20.46 billion euros. Payments also... percent to 603.3 euro over the whole period, compared with 620 euro a year earlier. Receipts from
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Industrial production records second drop of year with 2.9 pct YoY decline in Oct
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s Industrial Production Index (IPI) went into contraction in October with a 2.9 percent year-on-year (YoY) drop, after a 2.6 percent increase in the previous month, according to Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) data released on Tuesday. This is the second negative reading for the year
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What brought down Golden Dawn?
Societyin the next elections in September of that year, but achieved a slightly higher percentage (6.99 percent.... The trial is expected to end in the autumn of this year, and the prosecution team are confident... frozen, starving it of over a million euros a year (1,272,465 euros in 2018 alone). State funding
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Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
PoliticsGreek Politicsat the end of the year, exhausted and battered but not quite yet beaten. The first challenge is to pass... tax aims to collect 2.65 billion euros versus 2.49 billion this year. MPs will vote... than 15,000 per year should pay a monthly mortgage payment of 10 percent of their net monthly income
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Greek recession slowed from revised 7 pct in 2012 to 3.9 pct last year
EconomyMacroeconomyof the year), household consumption retreated 6 percent in 2013, leading to a 5.6 percent drop... percent in 2013. The downward trend accelerated in the last two quarters of the year to 15.3 percent... in the beginning of the year, exports grew by a modest 1.8 percent in 2013 on the back of a 2.7 percent
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Most Greeks saw income fall over last year, limiting purchasing power
Societythe last year. The reduction is proportionally higher in the 45-54 age group and for those... on summer holidays. Only 38 percent of salary earners say they will go on vacation this year. This is 11 percentage points lower than last year. For 59 percent of those who will enjoy a summer holiday
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The year that Greece (nearly) saw it all
Agoramanaged to produce an inconceivable amount of news, speculation and uncertainty in 2015. It was the year... economic recovery was stubbed out and the familiar sight of a shrinking economy returned. This year... and productive year for all. In the meantime, you will find below links to the three most popular
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A year on, Tsipras's SYRIZA in need of morale boost
PoliticsGreek Politicsan audience of SYRIZA members at an indoor stadium in Athens on Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary of the leftist party coming to power. Coming almost a year to the day since SYRIZA’s election victory last January, the event is titled: “One year of the left, one year of struggle.” What under
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CPI up by 0.6 pct in May, second positive reading the year
EconomyMacroeconomy, Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) data showed on Friday. Last year was the first where.... The latest headline number marks the second month of price rises this year. The average CPI.... The harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) rose by 0.8 percent year-on-year in May. Month-on-month the HICP
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