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Coalition ministers, MPs wrestle with implications of Eurogroup agreement
PoliticsGreek Politicsa discount until now. He was beaten to it, though, by Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads... asked for a number of tweaks to the legislation passed this month before Greece can receive any funding
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Sub-tranche, 2017 fiscal performance ticked off on first day of review talks
EconomyProgrammethe target will be beaten and how much of the excess surplus the coalition will be able... from Luxembourg is a given. This would take the amount of funding released by the ESM since the second
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With eye on elections, Tsipras talks up public sector hirings
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be beaten in those ballots and it would risky to hold a national vote in the wake... and the Help at Home scheme. He said these hirings would not burden the budget as funding
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Newsletter 352 - 23/09/2022
as the targets up to August were comfortably beaten, by close to 6 billion euros. Revenues were 5.7 billion... resources, more funding for Greek media outlets based on transparent criteria, and returning
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Newsletter 387 - 30/06/2023
PoliticsMitsotakis re-elected, Tsipras beaten and far right resurgentSunday’s election delivered a comfortable majority and a second four-year term for Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, dealt... Hatzidakis, the Finance Ministry will have control over all funding and financing programmes
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agorafor decades. Between 1981 and 2001, when Greece joined the euro, per capita income in Greece had almost... on imported goods. When Greece joined the euro, it was importing about 3 billion euros of good per... are without a job and have diminishing prospects of finding one. Over the last three years, salaries have
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
. The latter corresponds to an average of 1.15 billion per month. The second key finding is that the Of the 76... the new settlement, while the minimum instalment would be reduced from 50 to 20 euros per month... euros in funding, there are concerns that the concessions made by Varoufakis and Prime Minister Alexis
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The Greek crisis we don’t see
Agorahalf of 2008, has put enormous strain on Greek society. An increasing amount of Greeks are finding... spent 11.6 percent of its budget on healthcare, compared to an OECD average of 14.5 percent. Per... of income. The average basic pension in Greece is just under 700 euros per month. It has been
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In Spain, the best generation is in danger of becoming the lost generation
Agora, 11,000 Spanish youngsters returned that year due to the difficulties with the language and in finding.... “And, currently, the only alternative I have is working nine or ten hours per day as an intern, earning no more than 300 euros per month or even for free, with no hope of being hired in the short
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During crisis, proportion of Greeks in extreme poverty has risen almost seven times to 15 pct
Societyestimated the extreme poverty threshold ranges from 182 euros per month for a one-person privately owned dwelling in a suburban or rural area to 905 euros per month for a couple with two children... in their own home without a mortgage (10.8 percent). The group most prone to finding extreme poverty
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