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Govt looks to contain political fallout from crash, prepares change to poll plans
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment has found itself in a tight spot, although the nature of this tragedy may end up... has a longer-term objective to set up a parliamentary committee to investigate the failings... will be weighing up this political cost over the coming days as the first opinion polls after the tragedy
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Minister pledges swift resolution as public anger over rail crash mounts
PoliticsGreek Politicsthen outlined a series of pledges regarding the railways. They included speeding up the completion... that the work could proceed immediately. There were also pledges to speed up the hiring of staff... were filmed firing tear gas and stun grenades at a crowd of up to 10,000 protesters at Syntagma square
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Eurobank net profit jumps 4x to 1.33 bln in 2022, NPE ratio at 5.2 pct
EconomyBankinghedging instruments, was up to 717.2 million euros in 2022, from 127.8 million in 2021. Operating... came to 16 percent in 2022. Adjusted Capital Adequacy came to 19 percent in 2022, up 290 basis year-on-year. The fully loaded Basel III CET1 ratio was 15.2 percent, up 250 basis points. In its results
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Mitsotakis revives spectre of political instability as polls show ND lead diminished
PoliticsGreek Politicstheir opponents the upper hand. The conservative leader conjured up the notion of a coalition made up... with 3.8 pct and 4 pct respectively, while undefined votes make up 16 pct of the total. The projection
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Macroeconomic fundamentals for Greece
AgoraCountries can get caught up in the hamster wheel of daily noise. The cyclical ups and downs can...). In a cyclical context, the population and WAP in Greece may have bumps up and down from year to year... system and shifting pension ages up with life expectancy), as active participants into the labor force
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Spotlight on far-right party that might upset election arithmetic
PoliticsGreek Politics. At the time, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis described the change as “the state stepping up... to interfere in the work of independent authorities. The amendment inserted a clause which opens up... of a continuing attempt to cover up the surveillance by the national intelligence service EYP. In statements
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Newsletter 377 - 07/04/2023
for Skai TV suggests that support for New Democracy has edged up again by 1 point since mid-March... Tsipras suggested that the government’s relief programmes have only served as a band-aid to cover up... that could include the writedown of up to 60 pct of the debt and lead to repayments that would not exceed 30
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SYRIZA's coalition options scrutinised as Tsipras remains focussed on first place
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the message that SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has issued in the run-up to the elections, which... with other parties before a second ballot, where the winning party will gain a bonus of up to 50..., and possibly MeRA25, coalition would represent. If it does, indeed, make up close to 50 pct combined
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ND shows signs of comeback as elections approach
PoliticsGreek Politics, up from 68 percent immediately after Tempe. Those wavering voters temporarily boosted the ranks... percent, while smaller parties including KKE, Greek Solution, MeRA25 and Ellines have all picked up... stirred up controversy by asking for it to be made mandatory for polling companies to publish raw
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Economic sentiment improves by almost 2 pts in Apr, consumer confidence dips
EconomyMacroeconomyIndicator (EEI) jumped by 2.7 points month-on-month to 124.6 points. The EEI is up by 16.6 points... in April at 25 points. up more than 24 points from May last year. Construction confidence stayed.... Now the index is up by almost 30 points on a rolling 12-month basis.
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