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Banks saw asset quality and liquidity trends improve in Q4 but process interrupted in 2017
AgoraGreek banks concluded the release of their fourth quarter (Q4) results last week, which showed an improved financial and asset quality performance overall. Almost all the core banks recorded a positive bottom-line result for Q4 and turned profitable for...
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Greek retail sales dive 8.5 pct in May after brief rise in April
EconomyMacroeconomyincreased by 2.3 pints to 4.8 in July posting a cumulative rebound of 27.6 points over the past 10 months
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Industrial production stays in contraction for third successive month in Aug
EconomyMacroeconomysuccessive positive months, to -1.3 pints after a rise of 2.6 points in the previous month. Since October
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Newsletter 501 - 03/04/2026
pints, from -49.2 in February. All components fell with the sharpest noted in the services sentiment
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Polls show Golden Dawn support dropping after murder, New Democracy profiting most
PoliticsGreek Politicsby a Golden Dawn member. The Alco poll put New Democracy first on 21 percent and SYRIZA second on 19.2 percent... for New Democracy fell from 20.1 percent to 19 percent and SYRIZA saw its ratings drop from 20.5... 5.3 to 4.3 percent. The only two parties that saw their ratings rise were former coalition partner
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Five things to take away from the first round of Greek local elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsbefore. The graph below produced by Public Issue suggests SYRIZA saw a 13.2 percentage point increase... of Central Macedonia, it snubbed the incumbent even though he was a party member only to see him thrash... regions. Although New Democracy saw support for its candidates fall by just over six percentage
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Greece's biggest problem? Society's lack of openness
Agorabeen cited as being central to its malaise. Conservatives saw in the country a textbook case... of the private sector. Some analyses went a little deeper and saw clientelism as the core pathology, an acid... representatives of its state-sanctioned religion – what an anachronism, that, for a member-state
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Newsletter 61 - 05/02/2016
strike saw one of the strongest turnouts in recent years, uniting a wide range of professionals... measures now that will last in order to make it sustainable. The general strike on Thursday saw one... and migration crisis are currently focused on the country being able to remain a member
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Newsletter 70 - 15/04/2016
the unilateral action we saw from the SYRIZA-led administration last year. The government made it clear... Macedonia (+11.6 percent) and North Aegean (+5.3 percent). January saw the number of building permits hit... macroeconomic framework is anything but encouraging. Ahead of the spring meetings, the IMF warned its member
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Promises and challenges of Greece's "green new deal"
EconomyFeaturesto implement a transition to clean energy comes from the EU, which requires all member states to submit... Democracy government to speed up “de-lignitisation” - though it no doubt also saw an opportunity to put... to be systematically incentivised after 2001, and the ensuing decade saw a rapid growth in the installation
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