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Greece and lenders edge closer at Eurogroup but standby measures, debt relief not resolved yet
PoliticsGreek Politicsto legislate an extra set of specific fiscal measures now. The automatic mechanism will have... to the guidelines they set out last summer, which is that financing needs to be kept
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Greek tourism: Hopeful yet uncertain for 2016
EconomyFeaturesthe added complication of a refugee crisis. Finally, Greek lawmakers are eyeing a new set of tax... hike from 23 to 24 percent and a levy on overnight hotel stays. With the tourism season proper set
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Multi-bill details how Greece aims to raise 1.6 bln from indirect taxes
EconomyMacroeconomyThe multi-bill tabled in Parliament on Wednesday evening included a set of parametric fiscal measures yielding around 1 percent of GDP that completes the 3 percent of GDP in fiscal interventions that Greece has to make by 2018 as part of the first programme review. The bulk of the latest set
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HRADF's updated plan for 19 privatisation projects published
Economythe share purchase agreement. The deadline for the completion of the transaction was previously set... bids for the sale of 100 percent is set for May 31. For the latter, three investment groups have
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Potential changes to constitution and electoral law move onto main agenda
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government looks set to present its proposals regarding changes to the Greek constitution in the coming weeks, spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili suggested on Tuesday. Gerovasili was mostly questioned... for around a year. It is also not clear exactly when the suggestions will be set out by the government
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Newsletter 77 - 10/06/2016
procedure could set a precedent that would be open to abuse in the future. Given Pavlopoulos’s stance... on Friday, two days later and well in advance of the deadline set by the Finance Ministry. This decision
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First review completed but more prior actions lie ahead for Greece
EconomyProgramme, the fund’s internal regulation has to be completed by the same date. 2) A second set of state... by the Social Security Institute (IKA). There is also another set of 35 actions that have to be implemented
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Opposition tries to pin government down over last year's Plan X
PoliticsGreek Politicsleaving the euro. It is believed that the difficulties set out in the study played a significant... clarified on the website of the DiEM25 movement set up by Varoufakis. New Democracy chief Kyriakos
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Russia and China prove hot topics in Tsipras-Obama talks at NATO Summit
PoliticsForeign Policyfor a rapprochement with Russia, a position clearly set out by the French President Francois Hollande... Secretary Jack Lew visiting Athens soon. It appears that Washington is set to renew its pressure
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Newsletter 82 - 15/07/2016
for parties to enter Parliament, currently set at 3 percent of the vote, and granting Greeks living abroad... seems set to carry into next week as well. They were at loggerheads this week because the trial
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