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  1. Greek industrialists decry conditions as another major firm moves its HQ abroad

    Economy

    Greece’s industrialists have cited the departure of yet another major firm from the country as evidence that the government is failing to create conditions for growth, despite the coalition claiming that the business environment is improving. Viohalco Hellenic Copper and Aluminum Industry revealed

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  2. Cyprus “success” preludes something bigger in European banking

    Agora

    At first, it looked anything but successful. Both Brussels and Nicosia seemed hopeless, had shot themselves in their feet, steamrollered over taboos, destabilised capital flows - created a mega blunder. Yet the Cyprus Gaffe (or Cyprus Rehearsal, or Cyprus Scare) is successful in having produced one

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  3. Greece on way to 2013 primary surplus as budget outperformed targets by 3.85bn euros to August

    Economy

    , trimming the year to date figure to 1.44 billion, yet with a significant positive impact on current’s

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  4. Credit contraction marginally decelerated to 3.9 pct in August

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    in the household lending sector and negative – yet volatile – corporate lending flow.

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  5. Lest we forget

    Agora

    is now out in the open. The grim story of extremism doesn’t end here, though. Nobody has yet been

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  6. Sharper drop for retail sales in July points to lingering recession

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Retail sales continued heading south for yet another month with the contraction rate accelerating to 14.2 percent in July from a revised 7.7 percent in June, according to Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). A similar drop (14.0 percent) was also evident in retail volumes. The picture remains

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  7. Golden Dawn support down to 2012 levels but with potential to rise again, poll shows

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that a sizeable proportion of Greeks are not yet willing to believe that Golden Dawn is the threat to Greece

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  8. What do Greeks fear most? The lack of justice

    Society

    the country’s fiscal adjustment, while others that existed before the crisis have not yet been addressed

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  9. A quarter-pounder democracy

    Agora

    collection, for instance, remains under political control and is yet to be granted the independence

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  10. Polls give New Democracy wafer-thin lead over SYRIZA

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    (DIMAR) garnered 4.2 percent. Just over 13.5 percent said they have not yet decided which party

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