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Budget primary shows deficit of 7.01 bln in September
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance recorded a deficit of 7.01 billion euros in the first nine months of 2020, compared to a surplus of 4.47 billion noted in September 2019, the final Finance Ministry (MoF... during the first nine months of the year. Personal income tax (PIT) was below target by 763 million
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Kammenos prepares to quit coalition amid ANEL unrest, issues to settle with PM
PoliticsGreek Politicshas been engaged in a public battle over the last few weeks. The ANEL chief seemed irked by the fact...The much-advertised split between SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) seems to be just days away... ANEL, has called a meeting of the party’s parliamentary group and executive committee on Wednesday
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The television will not be revolutionised
Agoranot being followed. Last month the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) expressed concern about... council,” said EBU’s Director General Ingrid Deltenre. Earlier this month it was revealed
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SYRIZA and ANEL: Far from picture-perfect
Agoradeplored. Instead, Tsipras opted to join forces with Kammenos. His nascent Independent Greeks (ANEL... New Democracy to found nationalist, anti-bailout ANEL. If this meant turning a blind eye and deaf ear to some of the extreme views and unsavoury behaviour of ANEL and its leader, this was a risk worth
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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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General govt primary cash deficit at 7.01 bln in Sept, arrears up by 113 mln
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s general government (gg) primary cash deficit came to 7.01 billion euros in the first nine months of the year compared to a surplus of 4.53 billion in the same period last year, according... at a deficit of 7.01 billion euros. The budget primary balance for the same time last year came
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Newsletter 166 -15/06/2018
even though junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) and their leader, Defence Minister..., Independent Greeks (ANEL), is not going to support the agreement. The conservative chief took up the issue... the opposition of his coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), to the settlement. However, there does
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Budget primary shows deficit of 7.01 bln as revenues suffer in September
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance recorded a deficit of 7.01 billion euros in the first nine months of 2020, compared to a surplus of 4.47 billion noted in September 2019, the preliminary Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution bulletin for September showed on Thursday. The primary surplus was below its
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EU elections in Greece: Applying a different scale of values
Agoraor moderates in Greece, have chosen to ignore this because they saw it as a means to an end (kicking... coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), with which Greek Solution has some similarities. ANEL went... career (at least for now) of its leader Panos Kammenos. Many of the 155,000 votes ANEL lost ended up
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agora, as some of the people in the audience today will know very well. Greece saw joining the euro as part... meant structural factors were overlooked. A period of belt-tightening before euro entry saw Greece’s... hit a brick wall. It lacked the conviction to make the tough changes in the public sector, to make
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