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Govt looks for positives as it steps up vaccine rollout
PoliticsGreek Politics. As of Monday, Greeks aged 60 to 64 will be able to receive the AstraZeneca jab, which Greece has only... inoculated with other vaccines. By Friday, February 13, 371,462 people had received at least one jab... at least one jab by the end of March, with all those 75 and between 60 and 64 being fully protected
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Vaccination scheme gaps identified as Greece prepares to discard masks
PoliticsGreek Politicsclose to 43 pct have received at least one jab. The uptake so far has been patchy in terms of geography... the jab, less than 30 pct of people living in various parts of northern Greece have done so. Perhaps... about the jab. The government is still in discussions with health experts about introducing further
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Scrutiny over mandatory vaccines puts govt on tricky ground
PoliticsGreek Politicsnot get the jab. According to reports, the government is hoping that the private sector will become... at the moment about all civil servants needing to take the jab. The government’s decision to toughen... not urge worshippers, or clerics, to get the jab. New Democracy’s cautious approach with respect
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Covid dominates start of 2022 but PM looks ahead to growth
PoliticsGreek Politicscertificates will expire seven months after the date of the second jab in order to force more Greeks to come... by profession. So far, only healthcare workers have been forced to get the jab or face being made to stay... in the country a year ago. As of January 1, 69.7 pct of the total population had received at least 1 jab
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Greece to pay IMF but concluding negotiations will be a tougher task
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere were no surprises from Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis’s meeting with International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde in Washington on Sunday but the government in Athens still faces a challenging few days ahead. Lagarde co...
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Greeks graduating after 2011 encountered limited opportunities, low pay
SocietyA report by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) has revealed that graduates in Greece after 2011 were twice as likely to be unemployed as graduates in the overall working-age population, and that the majority of them earned salari...
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Tsipras eyes review conclusion, insists SYRIZA patience will pay off
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras assured SYRIZA’s political secretariat on Monday that the government will manage to wrap up the third review on time and that better days are on the way for his party. Speaking to SYRIZA officials after the departure of the...
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Alpha Bank turns profitable in Q1 as last year's clean-up efforts pay off
EconomyBankingAlpha Bank reported a net profit of 125 million euros in Q1 2022, compared to a loss of 282 million euros in the same quarter of 2021. In the last quarter of 2021, the net loss was 408.1 million euros, mostly on the back of 551.8 million euros of impair...
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National Bank reveals capital plan, which includes sale of whole Finansbank stake
EconomyBankingas Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital (“pari passu” with common shares) but they are an expensive
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Newsletter 50 - 06/11/2015
) for the remaining 75 percent. CoCos, which qualify as Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital pari passu
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