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Programme review talks continue, progress on tax, pensions and NPLs at a premium
EconomyProgrammean agreement could be clinched by March 25. The quadriga proposed to the Greek government last week.... According to this quadriga proposal, the current tax-free threshold of 9,550 euros would be lowered... tax break. Both the government and the quadriga proposals result in lower tax for those self
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Newsletter 454 - 07/03/2025
government of concealing the dangerous state of the railways in the run-up to the deadliest accident... and towns saw the largest protests held for several decades in Greece last Friday, marking.... Greece last saw these yield levels in June last year and has been firmly on a downward path
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Greece positions itself as a pillar of European and NATO security
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe recent escalation in the Middle East and Greece’s rapid operational response have renewed attention on the European Union’s mutual defence framework, while simultaneously highlighting Athens’s strategic role within both NATO and the broader regional...
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Opinion poll blow for govt as it considers further Covid measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsof this shift, which saw support for the two main parties drop by a combined 5 points, appears to be centre... Fofi Gennimata. KINAL saw its backing increase from 8.5 pct in October to 9.8 pct this month... pct. These three appear the favourites to go into a run-off vote in December. However, according
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Newsletter 78 - 17/06/2016
through the non-renewal of pillar II bonds, thus reducing the bank’s reliance on the expensive... to emotion carry immense power. As we saw last year in Greece, with the overwhelming win
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Newsletter 86 - 02/09/2016
funding costs, due to reduced reliance on emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) and decreased pillar II... continues Retail sales fell for the 13th straight month in June, which saw a 5.2 percent drop from 7.9
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Travel balance rises to 51 mln in Feb as receipts shoot up by 29.6 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyto 92,200. Arrivals from Russia rose by 65.3 percent, and US visitors saw an increase of 27.7... to 33.2 million visitors, surpassing the prediction made by SETE. Tourism remains a main pillar
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BoG awaits go-ahead from DG Comp over NPL scheme
EconomyBankingbeen code-named Project Pillar by Eurobank. The bank will retain 100 percent of the senior notes... billion euros. With the drop of NPEs outpacing the deleveraging in the system that saw loans drop
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Newsletter 221 -27/09/2019
. Arrivals from Russia decreased by 6.6 percent, while in contrast US visitors saw an increase of 6.2... revenue pillar in light of the sudden collapse of British travel giant, Thomas Cook at the start
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PM wades in on Turkey dispute as Covid-19 threat grows at home
PoliticsGreek Politics, while there were also statements from the US and Israel that Athens saw as being supportive of its... capabilities, but discarding NATO as a pillar of peace in the post-world war two world goes too far
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