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Newsletter 214 -12/07/2019
Mitsotakis has picked his new cabinet, held a first meeting with his ministers and decided the first... foresee the scrapping of the university asylum provisions. has a team of three deputy minister... Vesyropoulos, who’s the deputy in charge of tax policy and the public wealth, has been an MP for ND since
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Greece: After a deal, work on a solution
Agorathe polls currently suggest that Syriza has a comfortable lead, the consequences of rejecting a deal... finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, alongside CDU rebels? The answer has to be no: reports... are labour market and pension reforms, and the pace of fiscal consolidation. Greece has liberalised
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Newsletter 97 - 25/11/2016
open. There has even been talk of her holding discussions with former leader George Papandreou about... by granting social allowances worth 871 million. The government has left its macro assumptions... billion. As a result, the NPE stock has dropped by 1.9 billion since the beginning of the year. NBG
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The flag of permanent defeat
Agora. It was almost as if he realised that he actually is the prime minister of Greece and has the responsibility...) and roughly five times as long as interim premier Lucas Papademos. It’s interesting that it has taken... a necessary part of any future government. This would be a remarkable comeback given how backing has
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Newsletter 458 - 04/04/2025
Mitsotakis has approved pay increases for members of the armed forces and paved the way this week... on Wednesday. The plan includes 26 bln euros of procurement at a rate of 2.16 bln euros annually up until.... Defence has traditionally proved a reliable unifying subject for the conservatives; however, the topic has
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Greece worst-performer in EU 28 for social justice
Societyconsecutive year, a recent study by the Bertelsmann Foundation has found. In its Social Justice Index..., the report found that the gap between Greece and Bulgaria and Romania “has actually widened again, since..., while Greece is standing still”. The report notes that “the crisis has had a devastating effect
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Newsletter 81 - 08/07/2016
institutions that the government has cleared net arrears for an amount equivalent to at least 80 percent... by another 2.5 billion to 58.6 billion euros until July 21. Since mid-August, the ELA limit has been trimmed... of the ECB waiver. The unemployment rate edged down for the third successive month to 23.3 percent
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Newsletter 497 - 06/03/2026
PoliticsWar in Middle East puts Greek political system on edgeGreece has spent the week edging from anxious observer to actor in a crisis that is widening fast. The government has spent the week... than maintaining a principled stance. Cyprus flashpoint The deployment to Cyprus has become
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Total overdue tax obligations rise to 100.74 bln, up by 1.19 bln in November
EconomyMacroeconomyof 1.18 billion, data from the Independent Authority of Public Revenues’ (IAPR) has revealed. New... increase of 1.15 billion. Around 18 percent of this amount relates to VAT, the collectability rate of which stood at 81.1 percent, declining against October’s rate of 83.1 percent. Income tax due rose
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Unemployment edges down to 16.7 pct, lowest since April 2011
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s seasonally adjusted (SA) unemployment rate edged down to 16.7 percent in August, down from.... For the same time last year, the unemployment rate came to 18.9 percent. August’s reading is the lowest since... 2013, unemployment has shown a fall of 41 percent. The overall labour force came to 4.71 million
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