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Tsipras to get election campaign underway as parties target middle class voters
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe weekend when SYRIZA’s former coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL) announced it will not compete... that stuck with Panos Kammenos’s party on May 26. ANEL’s absence from the electoral contest came
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Coalition not ditching referendum idea from policy options but details muddled
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs much as it tries, the Greek government cannot escape the issue of if it will consider holding... holding a referendum on whatever is agreed by June “would not be a bad idea” as it would ensure... creditors would be willing to accept. In 2011, when George Papandreou suggested holding a vote
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PM seeks to douse snap election talk, points to October polls
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAmid growing speculation that Alexis Tsipras is thinking of rejecting the option of holding snap... reports suggesting that Tsipras is leaning towards holding out until October for general elections... but some commentators have suggested that this would also facilitate the holding of national
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Greek banks eye positive market appetite for bad loan sales
EconomyBankinga holding company. In Piraeus Bank’s preliminary summary ahead of their full 2019 results, the bank... as forthcoming legislative reforms. Alpha Alpha Bank is also holding roadshows in Paris and London this week... will be transformed into a holding company with a transformation date of June 30, 2019. The results
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Q2 GDP contraction at 0.3 pct, strong Q3 needed to achieve target of annual growth
EconomyMacroeconomyand the troika institutions call for GDP rebound of 0.6 percent this year. A broadly similar growth... reflecting increased non-residents’ holdings of Greek companies’ shares, particularly banks. Official
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Newsletter 100 - 16/12/2016
. The most obvious one would be to call snap elections, as it is clear there is little chance... and lower haircut applied on ELA collateral, coupled with participation of Greek banks’ EFSF holdings
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Piraeus Bank records net losses of 6 mln in Q1, further reduction in NPE stock
EconomyBankingthe conference call, management appeared optimistic that the end-2017 NPE and NPL reduction targets... to maximise the value arising from its core business and to focus on realising value in legacy holdings
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Grassroots protests highlight public discontent with development policies
PoliticsGreek Politicsforced Mitsotakis to call a special cabinet meeting on the subject, which resulted in a moratorium... the state-controlled superfund HCAP and its subsidiary HRADF to return their holdings in the Athens
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Kasselakis offers more hints of a positive narrative for SYRIZA's post-Tsipras era
PoliticsGreek Politicsand described it as a wake-up call for the defence of democracy and human rights in Europe.... to holdings in offshore tax havens. The SYRIZA leader is due to present the party’s European manifesto
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EU Task Force sees improvements in Greece, tends to damaged ties
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the government is short of money, this financing is extremely important to both the public and private sectors in Greece, especially after the decision to increase the EU’s share in the co-financing rate... better use of the financing available. By the end of 2012, absorption had increased to 46.25 percent
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