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Where things stand on the Greek pension reform proposals
EconomyProgrammefor the self-employed. Also, the International Monetary Fund sees a fiscal gap up to 2 percent of GDP (3.7... Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said its party will draw up its own plan for overhauling the pension
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A year on, Tsipras's SYRIZA in need of morale boost
PoliticsGreek Politicsrepayments in the future, “in 10 or 15 years’ time.” This leaves Tsipras having to pick his party up... in a position to start living up to its pledges regarding transparency and social justice, especially
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Sobering reality overshadows SYRIZA's one-year anniversary
PoliticsGreek Politicsdown the highways. They have threatened to step up their action this week if Tsipras does not satisfy... are the same as what the lenders and the IMF believe in,” said Tsipras, summing up the main line
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Greece left isolated on migrant crisis, with bailout talks finely poised
PoliticsGreek Politicsthem to contribute to the effort to step up security on Greece’s border with the Former Yugoslav... to live up to pledges to take in refugees through the relocation programme. The European Commission also
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Deadline for liberalisation of household and SME NPLs looms closer
Economywith two children. The second tier aims to protect up to 35 percent of indebted households with different... for single up to 260,000 and 35,087 euros respectively for a family with two children. For the second
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Honey, I shrunk the Greeks vol. 2
Agora: Based on the framework that existed up to 2010 Greece would have definitely needed a debt... claims, you end up with a “subordination risk” where private money is seen as being inferior
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With bailout review in balance, PASOK's role back in spotlight
PoliticsGreek Politics“neoliberal” policies. This has opened up the possibility of PASOK and SYRIZA moving closer together... recently been ramping up his criticism of Gennimata’s leadership. Venizelos is said
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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
Agoraon trying to find ways to pass around responsibility rather than to come up with a plan to respond... together on this issue and come up with a common and comprehensive policy that will involve a great deal... refugees and migrants arrive on its islands to prevent them simply moving on en masse to other
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Greek stocks plunge 7.9 pct, banks tumble 24.3 pct
Economy, current prices represent a decline ranging between 44 percent for Alpha and up to 67 percent... market with a rise in the Greek government bond (GGB) yields by up to 0.9 percentage points (pp
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Greek private sector sees net job departures of 9,954 in Jan
EconomyMacroeconomyThe hirings balance showed net departures of 9,954 in January, up from last year’s figure of 9,273, the Labour Ministry information system (Ergani) data showed on Monday. Ergani was launched in March... and shift work at 18 percent. Men make up the majority (58 percent) of January hirings
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