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Covid-19 takes toll on budget as primary deficit widens to 4.80 bln in May
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance recorded a deficit of 4.80 billion euros in the first five months of 2020, compared to a surplus of 916 million in April 2019, the preliminary Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution bulletin for May showed on Monday. May’s preliminary budget had been widely anticipated
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Budget primary shows deficit of 6.21 bln in April, falling below target as expenditure grows
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance recorded a deficit of 6.21 billion euros in the first four month of 2021... Ministry (MoF) budget execution bulletin for April showed on Monday. The primary balance was below its target by 963 million euros. Expenditure excluding interest payments and the public investment budget
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Budget primary shows deficit of 9.09 bln in June, beating target
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance recorded a deficit of 9.09 billion euros in the first half of 2021...) budget execution bulletin for June showed on Thursday. The primary balance was above the target... payments and the public investment budget came to 26.7 billion euros. Net revenues came to 22
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Budget primary shows deficit of 9.08 bln in July, beating revised target despite revenue shortfall
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance recorded a deficit of 9.08 billion euros in the first seven months... Ministry (MoF) budget execution bulletin for July showed on Monday. The primary balance was above... interest payments and the public investment budget came to 30.9 billion euros. Net revenues came to 27
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Of symmetry and adjustments in the eurozone
Agoraand at the Jakarta School of Public Policy, Indonesia, where he is also head of the Economics Concentration. He
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Ministers unveil lengthy payment schemes for unpaid taxes and contributions
EconomyProgrammeinstalment of 50 euros. She added that the programme, which is also open to employers who owe... to an extra 50 million euros entering public coffers this year and 160 million in 2020. The aim..., Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, Labour Minister Efi Achtsioglou, Interior Minister Alexis
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ND's electoral bill put before MPs as PM mulls options for president
PoliticsGreek Politicsparty earning up to 50 extra MPs. According to the proposal, if the winning party passes the 25... percentage point the party has gained, reaching a ceiling of 50 seats if 40 percent or more of the votes... term for Pavlopoulos but the likelihood of the ex-interior minister being given another five years has
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ND denies plans to bring in more MPs as Mitsotakis waits to see impact of new measures
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn the wake of Sunday’s budget vote in Parliament, New Democracy has ruled out the possibility... to its parliamentary group. The aftermath of the budget vote saw the media focus on the set of voter... lawmaker who backed the budget, Lefteris Avgenakis. The Cretan politician was expelled from ND’s
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Awaiting the magic wand that will end the pandemic
Agora, a month and a half later, on February 22, he announced that we could vaccinate 50 percent... goose of the state budget, an inflow without which the state would collapse. And what happened? The season came and went, but we never got to 50% of the population vaccinated. Yet another wrong
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Greece closes 2013 with 691 mln budget primary surplus despite late investment spend
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s 2013 budget execution showed a primary surplus of 691 million euros (0.4 percent of GDP... of Finance (MoF) on Tuesday. The state budget deficit narrowed 65.9 percent to 5.35 billion (2.9..., the MoF reported a large part of the Public Investment Budget (PIB) expenditure in the last month
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