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Tourist arrivals in June increase 13.7 pct, bringing significant rise in receipts
EconomyMacroeconomyincrease in international tourist arrivals and a moderate rise of 2.5 percent in travel spending per... in international tourist arrivals partly counterbalanced by a 1.7 percent drop in travel spending per trip... of travel receipts per country showed mixed trends with revenues from the UK posting a 40.2 percent rise
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Samaras tax cut pledges aimed at MPs rather than voters
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the reduction in the heating oil tax will lead to consumers paying up to 12 cents less per litre... tax would be 283 percent higher than in 2012, when it was raised from 60 to 330 euros per 1,000... and are growing by an average of around 1 billion euros per month. Samaras also confirmed the government would
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Sudden jump in unpaid taxes last month takes total to almost 70 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyhas been increasing by an average of 1.24 billion per month in 2014. In addition, the 8-month... to collect an additional 1 billion in the second half of 2014, which corresponds to 167 million per... performance as they reached 122 million per month. The second MoF target of collecting 16 percent of new tax
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Greece sees travel receipts rise again in July to reach 2.74 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyto 4.22 million in July. In contrast, travel spending per trip fell 11.5 percent to 634 euros. Arrivals... to 10.49 million. In addition, the double-digit drop in travel spending per trip in July, led... receipts per country showed mixed trends with revenues from the UK surging 26.1 percent, 9 percentage
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Travel receipts up again in September, reaching 2.3 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyspending per trip by 9.6 percent to 605 euros. The breakdown of incoming tourist activity showed... per trip to 614 euros. Arrivals from the US (+29.4 percent) continued showing the highest rise... as of August. The breakdown of travel receipts per country displayed a double-digit rise in receipts
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What is in SYRIZA's 3-pillar programme to overcome the crisis?
Economyearning up to 700 euros gross per month (543.1 million). 3) Free access to the public health care... 30,000 apartments with a rent subsidy of 3 euros per square meter (54 million). 7) Abolition... to a significant reduction of 25 percent in the heating oil price from 1.20 euro per litre to 0.90
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Greek stocks rise by 16 pct during week on hopes of deal in Brussels
Economyand capital return of 0.15 euros per shares each on June 24 with the payment date set on July 1. The stock of the Hellenic Telecom Organisation (OTE) traded ex-dividend of 0.08 euros per share on June 25... of 0.36 euros per share on July 2.
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Greek household income falls almost 30 pct in 8 years, finds OECD
SocietyHousehold disposable income fell by 27.5 percent per capita in Greece from 2007 to the first... since the onset of the financial crisis in 2007, according to the OECD. On average GDP per capita increased in OECD countries by 3.3% in the first quarter of 2015 compared to 2007, while the per
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Mitsotakis aims to prove credentials by tackling party's finances
PoliticsGreek Politicsare just over 8 million euros, while it earns around 4 million per year. This has caused New Democracy... the next three years the party’s spending by 70 percent to 2.5 million euros per year. The first step... offices will be 9,500 euros per month compared to the previous 95,000 euros, Mitsotakis said
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Some progress made as Greek programme review heads for break
EconomyProgrammenot want to cut current pensions that are below 1,400 euros per month (sum of main and supplementary... to result in broadly the same tax per property as in 2015. Furthermore, it is not clear at the moment whether measures passed as part of the 2016 budget such as a tax of 0.05 euros per column on OPAP games
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