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Podcast - Long live the revolution: The legacy of Greece's 1821 war of independence
AgoraGreece is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its war of independence, which began in 1821 and allowed Greeks to free themselves of Ottoman rule and oppression, and form their own nation-state. To mark this occasion, we spoke to Sakis Gekas, the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) Chair of Modern
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The IMF and Greece's bitter pill
Agorais prepared to sign off and let Greece swallow another bitter pill that the Fund doesn’t believe will cure
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PM brings law and order back onto agenda as foreign policy issues dominate
PoliticsGreek Politicsand order agenda. Since Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s recent trip to the USA and the subsequent... it to strengthen the economic recovery and to restore law and order. He went on to reference both left
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Helped by trading gains, Eurobank posts 305 mln in Q1 profits
EconomyBankingEurobank posted an adjusted net income of 305 million euros in the first quarter of 2022 (Q1), compared to a profit of 72 million euros last year. Core pre-provision income (PPI) rose by 10.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) in Q1 to 240.4 million euros, with 62.1 million euros of loan loss provisions
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Tsipras sets off for USA as prior actions, e-auctions dominate at home
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras chaired a meeting with key ministers on Friday to assess the progress the government is making in completing the 95 prior actions that have to be ticked off this year. The meeting was held a few hours before the Greek leader set off for his official visit to the USA
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Bulgaria's Covid-19 vaccination fiasco: excessive risks, mediocre results
Agorain the (Table Allocation), it seems that the original “plan” of the Bulgarian government was to order... Biotech and India’s Bharat Biotech. A question of price While the exact prices the different vaccine
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From nice story to pulped fiction: Carney delivers reality check on rules-based order
Agoraorder, or disorder, that the world needed, enabling leaders to assess options based on a realistic... “international rules‑based order” was little more than a diplomatic euphemism. It created the illusion... it, it was simply “a nice story.” “We knew the story of the international rules‑based order was partially
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Foreign investors positive on Greece but ease of doing business remains low
EconomyFeaturessaid: "We needed to obtain some 200 permits and approvals in order for works at the airports to start. In Lima we needed no permits at all, while in St Petersburg we had to get just two licenses... was cited as the leading element that should be improved in order to attract foreign direct investment
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Newsletter 282 -29/01/2021
party in order to secure broad support. SYRIZA argues that this has set Mitsotakis on a path where he... issued a 3.5 billion euro bond with a coupon of 0.75 pct and a reoffer price of 99.44, implying a reoffer yield of 0.807 pct and a spread of 135.3 basis points over the German DBR 0 pct that matures
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Mitsotakis shifts focus to tax plan, investment, law and order
PoliticsGreek Politicsa stronger footing: Investment, tax relief and law and order. Mitsotakis held an informal meeting... and order issue in his televised interview, which was conduced just a few hours after the anti-terrorism... of “slowly but steadily restoring security and order.” New Democracy had campaigned strongly
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