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Dendias visit to Turkey builds on show of solidarity following earthquake
PoliticsForeign Policyof humanitarian aid from Greece, carried in five planes. Cavusoglu noted that “we saw and watched that after... that rejoiced, we saw that all Greeks rejoiced.” Dendias fully endorsed Cavusoglu’s statement about Athens... during the last 3 years or so. For both countries to engage in a new phase of their relations
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Polls provide PM with some comfort, spell out size of task for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Freedom, the populist party led by Zoe Konstantopoulou, saw its support shoot up during February... in third place. The social democrats saw their backing dip from 12.8 pct to 12.4 pct. Although the gap... half of 2015, and therefore a dangerous alternative than to engage with PASOK and its more
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The enemy within
Agorathat lower income groups in Greece saw their tax burden increase by 337.7 percent from 2008 to 2012... groups saw their earnings from wages sink the most (by 16.4 to 34.6 percent) between 2008 and 2012, while the top income groups saw their income fall by much less (9.3 to 11.7 percent). What
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How Greece sleepwalked off a cliff in 2009, in black and white
Agoraelections that saw Karamanlis’s administration lose to George Papandreou’s PASOK in a landslide..., is not a normal country and certainly does not have a political elite that respects itself, or anyone else... performance during 2009 deteriorated early and steadily without anyone making any attempt to avert
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Losing game: Another doomed effort to revive Greek football?
Agoraand its fierce rival, PAOK. Many in Greece saw this dispute as a proxy war between the club’s two owners... of the game. Anyone who genuinely loves football wants nothing to do with this diseased environment... and penalties for anyone who breaks them. It was confirmation that nothing has changed in the last
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Insurgent campaign from Kasselakis puts shock SYRIZA leadership win in touching distance
PoliticsGreek Politicsfollowing Greece’s civil war and during the military dictatorship. Some SYRIZA officials saw this not only..., they are higher than anyone at SYRIZA, a party with a small membership base, expected. It is thought that a lot... in deciding the final outcome, refused to be drawn on who he would back – if anyone – in the run-off
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Central gov't cash surplus reaches 1.19 bln in Q1, up 54.3 pct YoY
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s central government primary cash surplus widened by 54.3 percent yer on year (YoY) to 1.19 billion euros in the first quarter (Q1) of 2015 from 771 million last year, according to the Bank of Greece (BoG). The quarterly evolution mainly reflects the performance in March, when this year’s
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Athens takes stock after PM's first talks with Erdogan, Balkan leaders
PoliticsForeign Policyas Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs responsible for migration, Selim Kiran. Also, Athens and Berlin
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Credit contraction decelerates to 0.9 pct in April, net additions climb to 659 mln
EconomyMacroeconomy. The positive flow in April is almost entirely attributed to corporate sector net additions of 763... positive for the third successive month, with net additions climbing to 763 million in April
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Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016
, Mitsotakis saw off the competition from his rival Evangelos Meimarakis (52.4 vs 47.6 percent) to win Sunday’s.... Elected just over a year ago, the leftist party saw itself in the vanguard of the backlash against... that he is targeting the support of anyone who has voted for PASOK, SYRIZA, Potami and New
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