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Newsletter 47 - 16/10/2015
been little appetite within the party to kick up a fuss about the content of the bill, which contains... (+0.1 percent), more than offsetting a sharp drop in investments (-10.6 percent). The provisional... October. The breakdown showed a drop in private consumption by 1.6 percent in 2015, exports by 1.5
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Retail sales rise by 1.5 pct in Apr, food volumes down by 4.2 pct
EconomyMacroeconomy. The inflationary effects are reflected in volumes, with fuels up by 1.2 percent, a 4.2 percent drop in foods... a strong drop in May, up by 19 points from July last year. Overall, Greece’s economic sentiment..., with a rise of 1.5 percent year-on-year (YoY), from a marginal drop of 0.3 percent in March, Hellenic
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Percentage of Greeks at risk of poverty or social exclusion edges up to 35.7
Society3.9 million in 2013, up by almost 109,000 over 2012. The 2013 figure is up by 1.1 pp on the 2012... (including pensions) make up 44.6 percent of the total equivalised household disposable income... in 2013, up by 190,000 over 2012, which corresponds to 19.6 percent of the 18-59 years old population
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Greek primary cash surplus up to 3.1 bln in September but state arrears also rise
EconomyMacroeconomybillion) making up more than half of total, followed by extrabudgetary funds (1.15 billion). The state... million euros MoM to 2.33 billion making up almost half of total arrears. The next highest... million euros, corresponding to 15 percent of total arrears. However, they are up 37 percent YoY
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Hotel guest numbers up 8.7 percent in 2014
Economyrepresents an increase of 4 million on 2013, pushing hotel bed occupancy up from 45.2 to 47.3 percent... numbers, significant increases were also noted for guests from China (up 79.1 percent), Malta (up 65.1 percent) and Japan (up 41.9 percent). The data also shows that, apart from two, all of Greece’s 13
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Press freedom ranking edges up but Tsipras yet to deliver, report finds
Societyannual report from the international media watchdog Reporters without Borders (RSF) has found. Up two... seven places to 113th in the ranking, clocked up a worse performance in the EU. However, Greece’s..., the worse the situation. Greece scored 30.35 (up 0.66), far below the European average of 19.8 points
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Athens hopes for sub-tranche this week, ND keeps up pressure on Kammenos
PoliticsGreek Politicswill approve on Friday the disbursement of a loan sub-tranche of 7.7 billion euros despite a hold-up over... that the pension cuts lined up for 2019 are constitutional, meaning that this will not prevent... for a parliamentary inquiry to be set up to investigate Kammenos’s intervention in the Noor 1 drug smuggling
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Travel receipts edge up 1.7 pct in May on higher foreign arrivals
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece's travel receipts edged up by 1.7 percent in May, decelerating from the 11.3 percent growth... for the 5-month period showed travel receipts edged up by 0.9 percent to 2.07 billion, while..., while arrivals from the UK edged up by 0.2 percent. On the flipside, arrivals from the US and Russia
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General govt primary cash surplus at 3.26 in Feb, arrears up by 237 mln
EconomyMacroeconomymonths of 2018, up by 809 million compared to the same time last year according to the Finance.... Local government recorded a surplus of 231 million euros, up from the previous month’s figure of 84..., extrabudgetary funds by 10 million euros and state budget arrears edged up by 4 million euros. Since
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New overdue taxes up by 776 mln in March, total stock at 101.44 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyeuros, up by 8.5 percent against the figure for the same time last year (3.28 billion euros). New unpaid... billion in February. Income tax due edged up to 17.5 million, a small increase compared to the figure.... The collection of new tax debt (excluding non-tax categories) picked up to 12.5 percent in March after having
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