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Holding out for a (reformist) hero
Agorahad dreaded. However, his decision to sign up to a third bailout and his political durability despite.... Also, the WSJ’s assessment does not seem to tally up with the International Monetary Fund’s assessment
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Unpaid social security contributions almost reach 15 bln
Macroeconomyamount of 3.38 billion making up 23 percent of the total debt. The largest debt bracket includes... allowed up to 100 installments. KEAO figures show that 83.6 percent of those debtors chose
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2015 primary surplus exceeds target as revenues outperform and expenditure is reined in
EconomyGreece’s budget primary balance reached 2.27 billion in 2015 up by 21.1 percent from the 2014 figure of 1.87 billion, the Finance Ministry (MoF) preliminary budget bulletin showed on Friday afternoon.... According to an earlier MoF announcement road taxes reached 1.07 billion, up by 8.3 million from last
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Pension reform brings painful overhaul in social security contributions for self-employed
Economy1993 (“old insured”). The latter’s annual contributions range between 3,200 euros for lawyers and up... percent (for annual income up to 50,000 euros), 100 percent advance tax payment, which brings
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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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