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Eurogroup agrees return of mission to Athens but key issues unresolved
PoliticsGreek Politicsdays ahead for Tsipras and his government as they will both come under immense pressure until... will not be discussed until a staff-level agreement is reached, the coalition will suffer a lot of criticism (including.... The argument about the package being fiscally neutral is unlikely to get much traction until the nature
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Newsletter 119 - 19/05/2017
) included a table presenting the impact until 2021 of the interventions in the social security funds... reform climbs to 6.58 billion until 2021, when several new measures are taken into consideration... of the Greek authorities, the MoF noted. Until the last phase of the removal of capital controls
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Tsipras gives mixed message on expectations for crucial upcoming Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek Politicselement but which postpones debt relief discussions until after the German elections. Bank of Greece... suggests that if Greece maintains primary surpluses of 3.5 percent until 2032 and above 3 percent until... if the Eurogroup provides a legally-binding commitment to making the country’s debt sustainable in the future
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Macroeconomic fundamentals for Greece
Agorafor a while until around the end of 2024. The reduction of inactivity means an increase in the (active... (low), wage demands will tend to ease (increase), which encourages more (less) hiring until... of the 2020s (Table 1). Until around 2025, the cyclical recovery is overriding the demographic anchor
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Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts
Agoragrowth due at least until 2015, it seems an impossibility to make up for a lack of extra revenues... at a Eurogroup meeting last November, will be put off until after May’s European Parliament elections.... The apparent decision to delay discussions on debt relief until after May’s European elections also suggests
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As Bank of Greece lines up Stournaras to take over, it reveals how risky things got during crisis
EconomyMacroeconomyof the first austerity measures on February 9, 2010 until the general elections on June 17, 2012. The respective figure as a percentage of GDP, which remained below 10 percent until the first quarter of 2010... was negotiating the second adjustment program. From the June 2012 elections until the end of that year, 9.7
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Mitsotakis rules out roles for relatives, Tsipras mulls way out of pension cuts
PoliticsGreek Politicsof GDP primary surplus target that is in place until 2023. On the political front, Mitsotakis argued... agreed to high fiscal targets until 2023, to cut pensions in 2019 and to lower the tax-free threshold... to wait until the end of his government’s four-year term to hold elections, given
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Eurogroup to approve release of bond profits but bid to repurpose funds falls flat
EconomyProgrammeto be released. The disbursement is not due to take place until January, though, as it has.... Greece will also have to wait until next year to discuss with its eurozone partners a possible... gradually until June 2022 so they can be “used to reduce gross financing needs or to finance other
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The targets and deadlines in Greece's privatisation programme
EconomyProgrammeof the transaction until December 21. 6) OLP, the largest Greek Port Authority. The tender includes... stake, currently held by HRADF. The next steps involve the launch of the tender until December... will be updated on a semi-annual basis. b) Announce binding bid dates for Piraeus (OLP) and Thessaloniki (OLTH
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Newsletter 76 - 03/06/2016
in Q4 2015. Investments (-6.8 percent) and exports (-3.3 percent) saw the biggest drops. Retail trade... that lower income groups in Greece saw their tax burden increase by 337.7 percent from 2008 to 2012... saw their earnings from wages sink the most (by 16.4 to 34.6 percent) between 2008 and 2012, while
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