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Tsipras conducts varied reshuffle in further bid to revitalise coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe leaving the Interior Ministry to become SYRIZA’s secretary, several other frontline officials... role is Alexis Haritsis. The 41-year-old was appointed interior minister, replacing the outgoing... is one of the few cabinet members to emerge with his reputation relatively intact. The Interior
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Newsletter 417 - 22/03/2024
by the Interior Ministry, a Greek prosecutor and the country's data protection authority, while several... the upcoming European Parliament elections, and the resignations of a senior Interior Ministry official... that the email list was leaked from the Interior Ministry during the tenure of the caretaker government
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PM makes limited, cautious changes to cabinet after election disappointment
PoliticsGreek Politicsat ministerial level in five departments: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural... as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras, once a justice minister under Mitsotakis, becomes the new agriculture minister. Niki Kerameus is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry
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Newsletter 428 - 21/06/2024
: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural Development. The new head of the Development Ministry is Takis Theodorikakos, who has previously served as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras... is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry, where she is replacing one of the few
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The key numbers behind the latest Greek proposals
EconomyProgrammewith estimated revenues at 100 million per annum in 2015-2016 5) Extension of luxury tax with incremental revenues at 47 million per annum in 2015-2016 6) Taxation with 30 percent on gross gaming revenues... 23. However, it is not clear whether the government later changed those estimates or whether
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Short-term rentals raise rents by average of 8.3 pct, study indicates
EconomyFeaturesof the tourism revenue generated in the country and is growing at an average rate of 25 percent per year... locations around Greece. The price of short-term rentals per square metre of a property was found to outpace... versus 40 long-term. The price per square metre of the short-term property rental was 86 percent higher
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Final budget sees strong growth, fiscal overperformance in 2018
EconomyMacroeconomy. Athens now sees 2017 growth settling at 1.6 percent, well below the initial estimate. The Finance...). In fact, private consumption only grew by half the original estimate, 0.9 percent. Investment also reached just over half the estimate, increasing by 5.1 percent. The growth of exports did
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Q3 GDP beats consensus, rises by 0.5 pct QoQ and 1.5 pct YoY
EconomyMacroeconomyfor 2016. The MoF, Bank of Greece (BoG) and the EC estimate a mild GDP contraction of 0.3 percent, while OECD’s estimate stands a bit lower at 0.2 percent. In contrast, IMF sees a marginal GDP expansion of 0.1 percent. For the full year MoF and EC estimate of a GDP contraction of 0.3 percent to be met
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The conundrum of Greek olive oil exports
EconomyFeaturesto the Bank of Greece (BoG), only around 27 percent of the 300,000-plus tonnes which Greece exports per annum... demand for olive oil because the local cost of production is relatively high at 1 euro per kilogram... per cent higher than 2014).” Their report highlights that a more vertically integrated production
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A breakdown of Tsipras's pledges on economic strategy in Thessaloniki
Economya significant reduction in price by 25 percent from 1.20 euro per litre to 0.90 euros. The Worker Housing... of 4 euros per square meter (cost 54 million). The last measure of this pillar involves a low-cost... to ease debt servicing. In addition, he outlined a national plan for reconstruction at an estimated
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