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How Greece's electoral map changed radically over 10 years
AgoraPapademos, an ex-central banker, assumed office at the end of the year. This period caused a tectonic... already signed a second bailout earlier that year, the country had eight full quarters under
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Trade deficit drops by 5.2 pct in April
EconomyMacroeconomyin April. The aggregate figure for the first four months of the year showed a rise of 5.2 percent... these two elements, the trade deficit showed a rise of 8.3 percent in the first four months of the year.
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Greeks mistrust in news and reliance on social media for information persists
Societyencompassed 37 countries. This year's survey found that Greeks were the third least likely out..., the highest of all countries surveyed and rising by three pps compared to last year. The use
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Eurosystem funding drops by 399 mln in May, ELA collateral falls to zero
EconomyMacroeconomythe year so far. The movements in May largely reflect a fall of 397 million euros in European Central Bank... from ELA funding falling by 9.56 billion, along with ECB funding falling by 3.24 billion. In the year
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Social impact of crisis seen easing in 2018, but 31.8 pct still at risk of poverty/exclusion
Society), falling by 3 percentage points (pps) year-on-year (YoY) compared to 2017 when the rate stood at 34.8
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Greek banks maintain focus on key areas as elections approach
EconomyBanking, and their activities in the next 40 days will set the stage for the rest of the year. The National Bank... business loans worth around 1.8 billion. For the second half of the year, the bank is preparing
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Greece cheaper than average for majority of categories except food, most expensive for communications
Societyin Greece came to 4 percent year-on-year (YoY) in the first quarter (Q1) of 2019 from an upward revised
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Tracing the decline of the middle class as parties vie for its votes
EconomyFeaturesa higher risk (4 percent) of falling into poverty from one year to the next during the crisis than... to celebrate an extra 146 euros a year in pocket for a two-child family, as Tsakalotos did in a recent
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Tsipras responds to criticism of SYRIZA record in bid to rally support
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras’s interview with Skai TV almost a year on after he issued a ban on SYRIZA officials appearing on the channel has made the headlines in Greece on Wednesday but its impact... intentions to confront the lenders and that the compromise which was made in July of that year produced
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Mitsotakis pleads for strong mandate as polls suggest ND heading for landslide win
PoliticsGreek Politics. The conservatives also aim to reduce in next year’s budget the base rate of income tax for anyone... that this measure would apply from next year. His party was criticised during the campaign when some officials
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