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Somewhere in the middle: Kosovo's delicate relations with the European Union
Agoraspecifically relations with Serbia and lack of recognition from 5 EU member states (Cyprus, Greece... of the 5 EU member states which still do not recognize Kosovo. Kosovo’s declaration of independence... and delicate approach, in order to accommodate both the stance of the majority of its members and 5 non
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Newsletter 284 - 12/02/2021
of March, including most of the vulnerable groups. As of Thursday, close to 5 percent of the Greek... by 3.5 pct in 2021 and 5 pct in 2022. In autumn, growth for 2021 was forecast at 5 pct, already... was forecast at 5 pct Unemployment drops to 16.2 pct in November Drop in number of unemployed
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Tailor-made Maastricht criteria for Greece?
Agora, and if nominal GDP growth is around 5 percent a year, then, over time, the debt ratio D = 3/5 = 0.60... interesting detail is that the 5 percent nominal growth rate can be thought of as 2 percent.... Nominal GDP growth in the EU27 averaged 3.3 percent a year, well below the 5 percent assumed
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Central government debt rises to 406.18 bln in Q4 as repos increase
EconomyMacroeconomyby roughly 5 billion euros, following another debt prepayment. Most of the FSM loans relate to the EU’s... maturity showed that long-term (over 5 years) debt made up 71.5 percent of the total, while short-term (up to 1 year) and medium-term (1 to 5 years) debt accounted for 19.1 percent and 9.4 percent
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A varied set of views on China
Agoraof inferior quality to that of western goods. In short, while Greeks are not disposed negatively... in their eyes. Nor do they envy life and work in China, and find Chinese commodities of inferior quality
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Election results in Greece lift uncertainty, for now
Agorathe course of the past 5 years, polarized the political scene. On one hand, the coalition government.... Before the EU vote, some polls suggested a SYRIZA lead in excess of 5 percent while the performance of the junior coalition member, PASOK (or the Elia alliance), was seen at a dismal 5 percent
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Piraeus Bank posts net loss of 1.56 bln in Q3
EconomyBankingof the targeted cost synergies and 100 percent of funding synergies related to the acquisition of 5 banks.... As a result, loan to deposit (LTD) ratio improved by more than 5 percentage points QoQ to 102.3... quarter at 10 billion, while excluding EFSF bonds, the net Eurosystem utilisation reached at 5 percent
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Bookies see comfortable win for SYRIZA, close contest for third place
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor New Democracy have now risen to 9.50 – 12 from 5 – 5.50 before. Next prime minister Similarly... winning less than 28.5 percent of votes (odds at 1.75). This suggests a margin in excess of 5 percentage..., odds for winning more or less than 5 percent is identical (at 1.87 each), while PASOK’s percentage
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Why Greece’s ‘also ran’ parties are crucial
Agoraby these small parties totals 5 percent, for example, the winning party would need 38.4 percent to take... and Golden Dawn), recent opinion polls suggest that the “also rans” could take anything from 5 to 8... rans” do take between 5–8 percent, then Syriza – if Alexis Tsipras’ party emerges as the winner
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Newsletter 15 - 13/02/2015
the Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) capacity to Greek banks by an additional 5 billion, up from the 60... billion), government bonds (5 billion) and T-Bills (3.5 billion) for ELA funding. On top... he has skilfully handled the internal idiosyncrasies of his party as it grew from 5 percent to over
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