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IMF revises growth forecasts downwards, emphasising gap with other lenders
EconomyMacroeconomyto fall to 18 percent, substantially more positive than the 19.5 percent rate in the SBA document... Greece to grow by 2.3 in 2018 and 2 percent next year. Ratings agencies are also more optimistic than
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Aegean tension presents Tsipras with urgent domestic, foreign policy challenges
PoliticsGreek Politicswas an exaggeration. The foreign minister claimed that Greek soldiers had fired at a “noise” rather than an object... organised country on all levels and in all areas than Iraq and Syria,” he said, referring to Turkey’s
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Debt, fiscal path still divide lenders ahead of Washington Group meeting
EconomyProgrammethan wait until 2020. The Fund sees this as a necessary step to achieving the 3.5 percent of GDP... quo in terms of the Fund having a more conservative stance than the European lenders.
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Over one in five Greeks struggled to make ends meet in 2017
Societyis therefore the first time in seven years that the rate has gone down rather than up, but still means that material deprivation in Greece is much higher than the European average. Broken down by age
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Building activity up by 5.4 pct in Feb, permits remain below 1,000
EconomyMacroeconomythis is higher than that for 2016, it remains around 86 percent lower than the peak of 95,730 permits
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New Democracy proceeds with renewal, puts centrists under pressure
PoliticsGreek Politicssatisfaction among the party’s hierarchy. Apart from leading to the election of new faces for more than... a discussion about KINAL. The journalist argued that Movement for Change is no more than a “loose
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Parties mark out battle lines for next elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsrate than the markets. Another flashpoint came when Mitsotakis objected to an attempt by Tsipras... a slightly better personal rating, with 28 percent of respondents having a better view of him, than
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Concerns raised about next year's pensions cuts
EconomyFeatures. He did not rule out the possibility that pensioners earning less than 1,000 euros a month... dependency ratios out of the countries surveyed, defined as the number of individuals older than 65 years
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Almost 1 in 3 jobs in private sector are part-time, average full-time salary at 936 euros
EconomyMacroeconomyto a quarter of employed men. Male employment makes up more than 53 percent of the total, or 1.11 million... at 386 euros, slightly higher for women at 392 euros than 377 euros for men. The employment
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Coalition hails multi-bill as start of clean break, opposition sees more of the same
PoliticsGreek Politicsrather than growth. The statement added that the Greek economy should be growing by an annual rate of around 4 percent in the coming years rather than the average of just over 2 percent foreseen
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