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Budget exudes fiscal stability, but hints at political complications
EconomyMacroeconomyLast week’s five-day debate on the 2025 budget concluded on Sunday without any complications for the government, and the economic plan is certainly in line with the Greek authorities’ narrative that stabilising the economy is one of the current administ...
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S&P leaves Greece's 'BBB' rating unchanged, hints at slower pace of upgrades
EconomyS&P on Friday reaffirmed Greece’s sovereign credit rating at ‘BBB’ with a stable outlook, citing confidence in the country’s fiscal discipline, solid economic growth, and an improving banking sector. In April, S&P was among the agencies that advanced Gr...
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Buying time: The delayed crisis of democratic capitalism - a review
Agora’ of capital markets, and making those who can least afford it pay for the rest of their lives. The new... in these countries to implement in return for financial assistance, much of which served to pay back sovereign... analyst for southeast Europe. From 2011 to 2013 he was a member of the European Commission Task Force
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Newsletter 6 - 5/12/2014
to power. Greece has to pay out nearly 3.5 billion for bonds held by the ECB and eurozone central... of a member state and therefore against the ECB’s rules, a SYRIZA government would have to meet... or a precautionary credit line, Greece will simply not be able to pay these bonds. If the fledgling
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SYRIZA's date with history
Agoracome to power. Greece has to pay out nearly 3.5 billion euros for bonds held by the ECB and eurozone... financing of a member state and therefore against the ECB’s rules, a SYRIZA government would have to meet... or a precautionary credit line, Greece will simply not be able to pay these bonds. If the fledgling
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Newsletter 27 - 22/05/2015
that without further funding from its partners, it will not be able to pay the International Monetary Fund next month. It is due to pay 300 million euros on June 5 in the first of several debt... to bilateral relations with the single currency’s most important member, i.e. Germany. • German energy
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Newsletter 48 - 23/10/2015
that parents would have to pay as a result of the new measure. He went on to suggest that Greeks who send... a good game to get elected, he will pay only lip service to the high ideals of fairness and justice... affair, as he had done with another cabinet member, Giorgos Katrougalos, when he was accused
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Newsletter 69 - 08/04/2016
, increased revenues from the single property tax (ENFIA) and a new levy on hotel stays, pay TV..., preferring cuts to retirement pay, and does not trust the projected fiscal results of a series... to the complex equation; for some of the eurozone member states (Germany in particular), the prospect
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Greek government faces hard labour dilemma
PoliticsGreek Politics. That would bring in more collective layoffs at medium-sized and large firms, fewer specialised pay scale categories, and, crucially, limit union influence by changing funding rules. Pay scales would... member. Beyond the party confines, though, Tsipras’ popularity continued to slip among an electorate
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Newsletter 159 -27/04/2018
member states. A report in Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper on Wednesday suggested that German Finance... to how the self-employed pay income tax, the Labour Ministry revealed in February this year that although a higher percentage of non-salaried workers will pay a minimum monthly social security contribution
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