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Growing challenges await PM following summer break
PoliticsGreek Politicssignificant progress in improving efficiency in the civil service and among the country’s uniformed... will have to be balanced, though, against the government’s commitment to produce a 1 pct of GDP
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Unpopular tax bill set to become law despite objections
PoliticsGreek Politicsof politicians and public officials with spyware, the national intelligence service EYP has written... party that the legislation is fair and balanced. The package remains controversial chiefly because
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Primary surplus confirmed at 822 mln in Feb
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance was confirmed at a surplus of 822 million euros in the first two months..., bettering the target by 343 million euros or 4.6 percent. The monthly primary balance remained positive and came to 93 million euros for February. The budget balance in the first two months of 2018
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Newsletter 87 - 09/09/2016
that there have been some improvements in Greece. For instance, the Greek Asylum Service has stepped up... was recorded in the primary balances of extrabudgetary and social security funds, while the surplus
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Newsletter 91 - 07/10/2016
and expanding tax rates to product and service categories creates disincentives to invest and work.... This increase largely reflects a notable improvement in the balances of extrabudgetary and social security
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Mitsotakis looks beyond New Democracy for votes that could bring him to power
PoliticsGreek Politicsproceedings against the former head of the Greek statistics service (ELSTAT), Andreas Georgiou, who has been accused of inflating the 2009 deficit figure. Broad appeal However, beyond the internal balances
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ND riles opposition with proposed appointment at public broadcaster
PoliticsGreek Politicsis not to make the state more effective, but to put it at the service of the conservatives... and balances. The leftists were critical of changes that the government has made to the Labour
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General govt primary cash surplus expands to 3.3 bln at end-June, arrears rise to 7.2 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyto a notable increase of 1.72 billion euros in the primary cash balance of the extrabudgetary funds... cash surplus by 501. On the flipside, the primary balance of local governments deteriorated by 93... to the overall positive gg balance. Local governments’ balance stood at the low end with a primary cash
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Newsletter 115 - 21/04/2017
primary cash balance turned to a deficit of 295 million in the first quarter (Q1) from a surplus of 2.85.... In addition, travel receipts decreased by 2.7 percent, but the travel balance soared 40.7 percent due a drop in travel payments by 9.9 percent. 2 Budget primary balance in the black Gross revenues
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General govt primary cash surplus at 1.45 bln in June as expenditure picks up
EconomyMacroeconomynoted in local governments, where the balance came to 271 million euros compared to a deficit of 90 million last year, representing an increase of 361 million euros. The balance for extrabudgetary.... Overall, the state budget primary balance declined by 1.23 billion euros to come to a deficit of 348
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