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Travel surplus rises by 12.7 pct in 9M
EconomyMacroeconomyreasons, up slightly from 95.4 percent in 2018. The corresponding receipts rose by 14.5 percent... the EU 28 made up 66.8 percent of the total, with non EU visitors accounting for 26.8 percent. EU... by 15.5 percent to 983,000, and Russian visitors edged up by 4.6 percent to 469,000. Cruises During
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ND under attack from all sides over handling of football wrangle
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is trying to avoid tying itself up in knots after coming under attack from all sides... media outlets, where Mitsotakis was accused of being weak, the government has made a slip-up... on the government due to it failing to live up to its pledges to safeguard independent institutions and not yield
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PM hopes solo run can lead to settlement of football dispute
PoliticsGreek Politicsstirred up by the football-related developments, it appears to have failed as the parliamentary debate... and World governing bodies for football, UEFA and FIFA. Meetings are being lined up for the coming... football. This is also a high-risk strategy as there is a possibility that the government will end up
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New minister sets out plan for addressing migration challenges
PoliticsGreek Politicsto come up with solutions. Mitarakis, an MP from Chios, which is one of the islands that is bearing... seekers from the islands since last year, the government’s aim is to now pick up the pace at which economic migrants are repatriated or returned to Turkey. “Our aim is to set up daily crossings
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ND targets NGOs in latest bid to bring migration under control
PoliticsGreek Politicsas well, but has not provided tangible evidence to back up the theory. During Tuesday’s debate..., underlined the need to speed up the asylum process and to create closed centres on the islands. He... deported in the whole of 2019. Gift to opposition SYRIZA’s position on the issue was summed up
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SYRIZA looks back at time in office as it searches for way forward
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the build-up to the May elections because the pollsters had been wrong in their forecasts... in Parliament following the break-up with ANEL, served to lull the leftists into a false sense of security... to build on and possibly facing the prospect of breaking up. The authors conclude by saying that SYRIZA can
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The "great replacement" comes to Greece - how a far-right meme appeared in mainstream politics
Societyorganisation made up of 19 religious groups with loose church affiliations, who deny any involvement... of migration from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Up until recently, this language had been... to blow up all European countries separately, and the European Union itself”. When local communities
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Tsipras challenges Mitsotakis as probe into scandal rekindles rivalry
PoliticsGreek Politics, which the conservatives claim was made up and shaped by former Deputy Justice Minister Dimitris... that stood up, if you have the guts take me to a special court. If not, stop abusing the institutions. Let... the Novartis investigation to accusing ND of trying to cover up the affair, in which several of its
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GDP falls by 0.7 pct QoQ in Q4 and increases by 1.9 pct in 2019
EconomyMacroeconomydeclined by 3.5 percent. Final consumption expenditure edged up by 0.4 percent QoQ versus a decline... percent. Final consumption represents the majority of GDP, making up around 88 percent of the total... while imports of services edged up by 0.9 percent. Compared to the same quarter in 2018, imports
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Eurobank net profits at 256.7 mln in 2019
EconomyBankingeuros, up by 26.8 percent year-on-year (YoY). The bank noted that this figure excluded costs from... million, up by 36.2 percent YoY, and 44.8 million in Q4, down by 20.4 percent. Core pre-provision profit... euros. Cairo II is made up of retail loans worth 2.9 billion and Cairo III consists of business loans
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