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Despite lower spend per trip, record arrivals push travel balance to 18.77 bln in 11M
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece's travel balance recorded a surplus of 419.9 million euros in November, compared to 1.94 billion euros in October, according to data released by the Bank of Greece (BoG) on Tuesday. The November balance was 82.7 percent higher than the 229.9 mill...
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Slowdown in vehicle market continues in Feb, led by lower sales of new cars
EconomyMacroeconomyVehicles going into circulation for the first time contracted by 1.2 percent year-on-year (YoY) in February, after a decrease of 7.4 percent in January, according to Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) data released on Thursday. In February 2024, li...
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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis... to the right” and “a party-political balancing act”. The elevation to the Interior Ministry of Makis Voridis
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University bill threatens PASOK consensus as probes launched into alleged infractions by politicians
PoliticsGreek Politicsinvestigation in the Interior Ministry, which is the suspected source of the data leak, while on Tuesday.... The Interior Ministry has denied that it provides voters’ contact information, while the chief...’s EP elections, but also because the suspicions of a data leak emerged within days of the Interior
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
AgoraOver the last three years, you won’t have read a newspaper article, seen a TV report or listened to a radio program that referred to Greece and didn’t use the word “crisis.” And for good reason too... regulations that are already among the loosest in Europe. Only minimum wages in Portugal are lower than
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What do Greeks fear most? The lack of justice
Societytheir health. A slightly lower proportion, 56.9 percent, said their mental health had suffered... consulting the Internet and 35.2 said they rely on TV programs to appraise their illnesses
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OECD's Greek debt forecast shakes foundations of troika DSA
EconomyMacroeconomy, Greece’s real GDP level in 2020 will be about 6 percent lower than that forecast made by the country’s... points higher than the July 2013 troika DSA. In an interview with SKAI TV, Gurria recognised
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Greece closes 2013 with 691 mln budget primary surplus despite late investment spend
EconomyMacroeconomythe year, turned to a deficit of 2.55 billion at the end of year. The MoF stressed that lower PIB... at an interview with Skai TV on Monday night that “we want a delay in the negotiations because we want
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SYRIZA looking for six-month breather from troika
PoliticsGreek Politicsin a late night TV show on Action 24 on Thursday. He claimed that a SYRIZA government would not seek... of 7.5 billion euros from the lower haircut applied on debt instruments guaranteed by the Greek state
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Newsletter 12 - 23/01/2015
. A survey by GPO for Mega TV published on Thursday gave SYRIZA 6 percentage points ahead of New... and much lower than those before the June 2012 elections. The BoG has officially stated
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