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Newsletter 170 -13/07/2018
for the month compared to May’s total of 20.87 billion, taking it under the 20-billion euro threshold... elections, which the government may be lining up for May 2019. The chances of general elections being... in May. This would mean the first round of the municipal and regional vote coinciding
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Budget primary surplus of 2.28 bln in first five months of 2016, tax revenues beat target in May
EconomyMacroeconomyeuros in May from a small surplus of 43 million in April. In addition, the 5-month state budget deficit... by 15.9 percent in May after falling in the two previous months. In absolute terms, revenues stood at 3.38 billion euros in May, beating the target by 514 million, which represents the highest monthly
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Could Greece's immigration reforms have an impact on upcoming elections?
Societyelections coming in May and national elections sometime before the end of the year, issues that touch... of the total resident population at the time. More than half were Albanian citizens (52.7 percent... home to around twice the European average of resident foreign citizens relative to the total population
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Greek coalition reaches milestones but PASOK looking increasingly weary
PoliticsGreek Politicsmeans that the coalition is also having to focus on the trouble that may lie ahead. The passing... will perform poorly in the May 25 elections, perhaps garnering as little as 5 percent and electing only one MEP. Such a poor performance may lead to Venizelos’s leadership coming under threat or split
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Jan-May travel balance of 1.78 bln beats same period in 2019
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s travel balance recorded a surplus of 1.19 billion euros in May, accelerating from the 432.1 million euros in April, according to Bank of Greece (BoG) data released on Friday. May’s balance was significantly higher than the 144.7 million euros registered in May 2021. It was also higher than
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New tax debt at 2.53 bln to May, up by 96 mln month-on-month
EconomyMacroeconomymonth-on-month in May, bringing the total to 2.37 billion euros compared to 2.29 billion in April... for the month increased by 87 million euros. As of May, the total for overdue debt, including both...The month-on-month rise in Greece's new tax debt came to 96 million euros in May, data from
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Total overdue tax obligations rise to 101.86 bln in Dec, new debt up by 1.30 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyfor the same time last year, which came to 13.91 billion. Around 84.1 percent of this year’s total (10.88.... The total number of tax debtors fell in December by 138,260, the biggest month-on-month fall in 2017... posting a negative balance in the following month. The total for legacy tax arrears (i.e. those
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General govt primary cash deficit of 4.84 bln in May, arrears drop by 163 mln
EconomyMacroeconomyin EFSF/ESM/IMF loans which came to 250 billion euros in May and made up 69.2 percent of the total... euros, bringing the total figure to a deficit of 603 million euros. The equivalent figure... where the total rose by 98 million euros YoY and came to 755 million euros against 657 million euros
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Government tries to contain fallout from breach of voters' data
PoliticsGreek Politics. The government claims that this happened in May 2023, when a caretaker administration was in place... given the ongoing investigation into a potential data breach at the Interior Ministry. The MEP... Data Protection Authority, the Interior Ministry and a public prosecutor. It was also announced
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Record travel receipts and narrower trade deficit reflected in current account up to May
EconomyMacroeconomycame to 2.11 billion euros in May, from 2.36 billion euros in the same month last year. Total imports came to 7.09 billion euros in May, from 6.47 billion last year. At the same time, total exports came... euros in May 2025. The total services balance was 2.3 billion euros, from 2.17 billion last year
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