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Are Chinese investments starting to hit a wall in Germany?
Agorafor protection, e.g. aircraft, finance, telecommunication, trains, energy and robotics. In cooperation... the Swiss bank UBS, thereby (temporarily) becoming the single largest shareholder in Germany’s leading
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Piraeus Bank issues Tier II bond to strong demand
EconomyBanking, Piraeus Group Finance Plc." The notes are placed in the international debt capital markets with the aim... by Goldman Sachs International and UBS Investment Bank. The coupon of the issue has been set at 9.75
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How will Trump's tariffs affect Greece?
Agorapositive. Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis hailed the agreement as a success, preventing... 2026. With the actual tariff now at 15%, the impact may be significantly higher. UBS ranked Greece
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Alpha seals bad loans sale deal, lenders brace for NPE management in Covid-19 era
EconomyBankingInvestor DAC, an entity financed by funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group LLC
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The case of SYRIZA's fiscal performance
Agoradifficult phase of the Greek crisis). The Ministry of Finance publishes a detailed excel spreadsheet...’ government through end-2014 ran deficits of between 2-4 percent of GDP. This was inconsistent... Varoufakis in the Ministry of Finance, broadly continued this trend. The first SYRIZA government
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Greece gets new finance minister but old guard dominates cabinet reshuffle
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGikas Hardouvelis being appointed Yannis Stournaras’s successor at the Finance Ministry. Hardouvelis’s... from the finance minister there were no notable new faces in the lineup. The cabinet consists mostly... at Piraeus University and as Eurobank’s chief economist to take up the job at the Finance Ministry
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Greece's new finance minister lines up for a marathon (and several short sprints)
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe naming of economist Gikas Hardouvelis as Greece’s new finance minister took most observers... not to change the two deputy ministers at the Finance Ministry – Christos Staikouras and Giorgos Mavraganis... economist to take up the job at the Finance Ministry. The new finance minister cannot say he is unaware
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Finance Ministry, Stournaras disagree over fiscal space for expansionary measures
EconomyProgrammein Parliament, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos attempted to deflect with humour the reported concerns about... a testy relationship with SYRIZA from his days as finance minister in the government of Antonis Samaras... that Stournaras must have been looking at the budgets he was responsible for when he was finance minister, noting
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Finance Ministry faces balancing act as it starts to draft 2020 budget
EconomyProgrammeThe Finance Ministry is getting down to the business of drafting the first version of the 2020.... The challenge for Finance Ministry official is to find a way to ensure that all of the numbers add up... and in 2020. The government has denied that there will be any fiscal gap in either year, but former Finance
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Finance Ministry costs new support package, but questions remain over electricity subsidies
EconomyFinance Ministry officials held a press conference on Monday to provide additional details about... International Fair. Finance Minister Christos Staikouras and his colleagues made sure... previously, with growth slowing to 2.1 pct next year. The finance minister noted that investments have
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