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Parliamentary inquiry to handle bribery claims as parties build differing narratives
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA debate lasting more than 20 hours ended early on Thursday with Parliament voting to set up a preliminary judicial inquiry into claims that Novartis bribed 10 politicians to secure favourable... with the decision to set up 10 ballot boxes (one for each accused) rather than one. Tsipras also gave a fairly
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Greek health care spending in the spotlight
EconomyFeatures. Public spending on pharmaceuticals came in for particular attention. Hard limits were set at 2.44... Administration (EOF). Targets were set for increasing the use of cheaper generic drugs in public hospitals
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New measures to ease capital controls, lift restrictions on opening bank accounts
EconomyMacroeconomypublished in the government’s gazette. It is the third set of measures that the MoF has announced to relax...-beneficiary to an existing account, independent of creating a new customer ID. The previous set
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Clearer roadmap for completion of third programme emerging
EconomyProgrammethat there is no set date for the start of the programme which the IMF has approved on principle... are that Greece achieves the reform targets that have been set, and the European partners agreeing to the debt
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The gruelling final straight of Greece's bailout
Agorafor this view to change. So, if we set aside the credit line debate, we can concentrate on what needs... – will it be a set schedule of interventions or will they be linked to specific policies or conditions? The latter
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Greece's antitrust damages initiative comes into force
LegalDecember 27, 2016 to comply with the deadline set by the directive for its implementation. The law... territory to specialised sections to be set up in the Athens First Instance Court and the Athens
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Lenders return to Athens with much work ahead to reach SLA by May 24
EconomyProgrammein Brussels on Monday, when Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Houliarakis will set out what progress....” Drudi suggests that conditionality should be attached to a “limited set of debt measures
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Banks focus on defining challenge of reducing NPEs
EconomyBankingand price that Piraeus’s Ameoba sale will receive. Auctions Domestic lenders have also set themselves... to the Bank of Greece a set of proposals for the further relaxation of capital controls. Bankers argue
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Newsletter 163 -25/05/2018
on Monday and debated in Parliament on Wednesday. The aim of the plan, which is set out over 106... overshadowed by political blame game A debate in Parliament on Wednesday served to set out the lines
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Despite debt deal likely falling short, IMF to retain a role in Greece
EconomyProgrammecertain that this will be in a technical capacity. With the Greek government set to approve the multi.... According to the report, the extension of maturities will be set at 15 years (more than the 3-5 years
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