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Polls give ND clear lead as SYRIZA struggles to shape narrative
PoliticsGreek PoliticsVaroufakis’s MeRA25 3.38 percent and ultra-nationalists Greek Solution end up with 3.3 percent. Around... to pay pensions. ND strategists also flagged up a statement by SYRIZA’s former labour minister George
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Fitch takes no rating action as fiscal continuity remains crucial to investment grade
EconomyMacroeconomy), Moody’s has Greece at ‘Ba3’, three notches from investment grade. Fitch did revise up the outlook... for the medium to long-term outlook, with the years up to 2026 the growth outlook is at 2-2.5 pct, driven
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Budget primary surplus comfortably beats target in May as taxes outperform by 2 bln
EconomyMacroeconomybudget, came to 20.29 billion euros. Net revenues came to 26.24 billion euros. The budget balance up... billion euros, while transfers were up by 716 million euros. Approximately 470 million of the tax
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Migrant boat tragedy forces temporary halt on election campaigning
PoliticsGreek Politicsnetworks. Communist Party KKE called on the public to “stand up” in response to the daily deaths... for several hours leading up to the sinking, and by a statement by the EU border agency Frontex, claiming
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Mitsotakis clinches big majority in second election, but small parties could complicate matters
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis was re-elected as Prime Minister with a convincing win on Sunday as his party kept up its impressive showing in the May 21 elections by taking an estimated 40.5 pct of the vote... developments on the left of the Greek political spectrum. Whether SYRIZA and PASOK end up joining forces
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Tsipras resigns, paves way for leadership contest at SYRIZA as left looks to regroup
PoliticsGreek Politics’s demise is contrasted to some extent by PASOK’s fledgling revival. The centre-left party ended up... this is not a spectacular result, and the social democrats might consider why they did not pick up more
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Mitsotakis focuses on economy as SYRIZA concentrates on leadership contest
PoliticsGreek Politicseuros of cash reserves, which is being topped up by the bond re-openings that have taken place this year... following the elections. They talked up Greece’s economic potential and stressed the need for prudence
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Spotlight falls on public hirings as PM pledges more health staff
PoliticsGreek Politicspurpose. The university police was set up during the government’s previous term. The 1,060-member force... to speed up its investigation and for the country’s independent watchdogs to conduct their work
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Mitsotakis primes public opinion for potential compromise with Turkey
PoliticsGreek Politicsat the Migration Ministry. The PM also suggested that his government will step up efforts to tackle tax evasion, accepting that it is a major social injustice. The issue came up during the election
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Government fleshes out priorities, SYRIZA sets dates for leadership vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsduring the Covid pandemic. However, an issue that has recently risen up the agenda, and which... that the agency is going to step up its checks on taxpayers who declare low incomes. Last year, some
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