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PBO sees 2024 growth of 2.5 pct hinging on RRF and investments
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) published on Monday its latest quarterly report in which it is broadly positive about the prospects of the Greek economy in 2024, though it does flag up concerns about the effects of persistent inflation, the implic...
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Greece gears up for second review, faces wide-ranging reform to-do list
EconomyProgrammeThe government is expected to start negotiations with the institutions on the second programme review early this week. The start of the talks come in the wake of Greece implementation of the 15 prior actions needed to complete the first review, which wa...
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Merkel reluctant to discuss targets as Athens prepares bill with wide-ranging tax cuts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe new Greek government is planning to move ahead with the tax cuts promised by New Democracy during the election campaign and is aiming to table a bill before the end of July that will set out the reductions over the next three years. Athens does not ...
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Tourist arrivals in June increase 13.7 pct, bringing significant rise in receipts
EconomyMacroeconomyAfter a temporary slowdown in May, Greece's travel receipts rebounded strongly in June, shooting up by 16.3 percent from 0.8 percent in May, according to the Bank of Greece (BoG). In absolute figures, travel receipts in June reached 1.99 billion euros f...
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Athens launches drive to pre-pay part of IMF loan, bringing budget benefits
EconomyProgrammeGreece has launched the formal process to pre-pay part of the loans it has received from the International Monetary Fund after Finance Minister Christos Staikouras officially requested clearance from the European Stability Mechanism in a letter on Monda...
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Credit to corporations contracts in July, bringing total loans down 1.27 bln MoM
EconomyMacroeconomyThe credit expansion in the Greek private sector remained solid in July, rising by 10.5 percent year-on-year (YoY), unchanged from the previous month, Bank of Greece (BoG) figures released on Thursday showed. The net lending flow was negative by 1.26 bi...
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Newsletter 14 - 06/02/2015
, though, it created the impression of a government winging it. This impression was compounded
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What we've got here is a failure to communicate
Agorathe impression of a government winging it. This impression was compounded by Varoufakis suggesting a debt
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Greek teenagers' behaviour charted
Society, singing and writing, were more common among girls than boys. Conversely, boys generally engaged
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Brexit and Grexit – Britain’s referendum and Greece
Agora. It is the Varoufakis syndrome. The former Greek finance minister has been on British television and radio singing
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