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Overdue social security contributions climb to 22.5 bln at end of Q1
EconomyMacroeconomy) that provided for the payment of overdue SSCs in up to 100 installments. Collection The collection... in 2016 stood at 820.2 million, up by around 30 percent from 2015 and beat target of 750 million
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Net job hirings hit high of 92,132 in April, driving 4-month figure to new record
EconomyMacroeconomyfigures for the 4-month period point to net hirings of 125,770, up by around 1,000 from last year’s... four months of the year relate to flexible types of work, with part-time and shift work making up 36.8
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Govt tables 2018-21 MTFS containing 4.5 bln in measures, sees growth rising from 1.8 pct this year
EconomyProgrammeseen up by 2.6 percent but slowing thereafter to 2.3 percent in 2020 and to 2.2 percent in 2021... are expected to edge up 0.2 percent in 2017 and grow by 2.2 and 2.4 percent in 2018 and 2019 respectively
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Tsipras upbeat on debt relief prospects, lenders more cautious
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras has provided an upbeat assessment of the chances that an agreement on debt relief will be secured at Monday’s Eurogroup, although this was not backed up by officials... that a “tsunami” of investment is lined up to boost the Greek economy. Vote on multi-bill Tsipras’s comments
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No certainties for Athens before Eurogroup as lenders try for debt deal
PoliticsGreek Politicson the institutions to come up with a solution after the government voted through Parliament last week... change by extending the talks for a few more days. The Greek government is keen to wrap things up
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The wit and will of men
Agoraat risk. The prospect of more measures being required to make up for any shortfall in public finances... ended up here again but there can really be no doubt. Nick Malkoutzis
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Stocks record weekly losses of 0.7 pct in wake of inconclusive Eurogroup
Economy. The trading activity picked up on Tuesday until Thursday with the daily turnover surpassing... in Q1 net profits by 83 percent to 89.2 million with revenues up 43 percent to 1.84 billion. National
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Athens unsettled by speculation about proposal at June 15 Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek Politicsby suggesting that such comments help make up Athens’s mind regarding whether it should accept... Athens and Berlin went up a notch on Thursday, when Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble claimed
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SYRIZA holds fire as Eurogroup expectations continue to be lowered
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA meeting of SYRIZA’s political secretariat on Tuesday resulted in the party reaffirming the government’s insistence that it will not implement the fiscal measures lined up for 2019 and 2020.... It appears that there are 10-15 out of 140 that still need to be wrapped up, mainly relating to pension
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Net job hirings reach new high of 89,534 in May, 5-month figure a record
EconomyMacroeconomyperiod point to net hirings of 215,304, up by almost 14,300 from last year’s figure of 201,056... (49.8 percent) and flexible types of work (50.2 percent). Part-time and shift work make up 36.9
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