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Govt mulls more freedoms for vaccinated, while arrest highlights evolving far-right networks
PoliticsGreek Politicsat Athens University, was shortlisted for the post of director of the ECDC, and has served on the government... of the pandemic. Reports in the media suggest that the scientific committee which has been advising
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Govt prepares to increase energy subsidies, lifts most Covid restrictions
PoliticsGreek Politicson Wednesday, the government has been discussing with the European institutions a proposal to increase... the scheme. Covid measures Minister of Health Thanos Plevris has announced that in line with the new
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CPI rises by 2.2 pct in Sept as prices shoot up at highest rate since 2012
EconomyMacroeconomywas in negative territory for the previous 12 months. The index has been accelerating ever since beginning to capture the price hikes felt across the economy. The latest figure of 2.2 percent has not been
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Banks make steady progress on improving balance sheets via securitisations
EconomyBankingand project Terra of property sales valued at 1 billion euros, Alpha Bank has project Skyline for property development and NBG has a second round of Frontier, worth 1.5 billion euros.
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Minister discounts lockdowns, vaccine mandate extension amid Covid surge
PoliticsGreek PoliticsHealth Minister Thanos Plevris has once again denied that the government plans to impose horizontal restrictions or extend the vaccination mandate to combat the surge in cases of Covid-19... has four times the population. Media noted that the last time Thessaloniki surpassed Athens
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Amidst Covid and inflation uncertainty, 2022 budget looks forward to solid growth
EconomyMacroeconomyof October. This is the second year on the bounce that the government has tabled a final budget... in 2022, as support initiatives come to an end. The Finance Ministry has identified the total fiscal
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Public sector hires under scrutiny again with more in the pipeline
PoliticsGreek Politicsprogramme in August 2018 the number of public sector staff has increased by 2.6 pct, with the bulk of the increase seen in temporary staff, which grew by 24.5 pct. The increase has been reflected
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GDP up by 2.7 pct QoQ in Q3, taking growth for first nine months to almost 9 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyquarters of the year that economy has grown by just short of 9 pct. In Q3 of 2020, GDP had dropped by 11 pct annually through it has grown by 5.6 pct on a quarterly basis as Greece had exited the first
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SYRIZA maintains pressure over Covid treatment, media handouts
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe allegations from unionists, the issue has come to the fore recently due to claims about certain...’s messages. SYRIZA has pointed to Documento’s exclusion, as well as the inclusion of seemingly
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Mitsotakis confronted by show of strength from church, turns attention to post-wildfire reconstruction
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe latest wave of Covid-19, and an area in which the church has hitherto played an ambivalent role... that it is actively working to help them recover from the fires and that it has an ambitious plan
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