Society
EBRD reports highlights demographic headwinds Greece has to navigate
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Transition Report 2025-26, "Brave Old World," identifies Greece as a rapidly ageing economy facing mounting demographic challenges, necessitating bold policy responses centered on extending working lives, boosting productivity through technology, and facilitating targeted labor mobility.
OECD report highlights stark contrasts in health system
According to the OECD’s latest Health at a Glance 2025 report, the country achieves relatively strong health outcomes despite spending less than many of its peers. But beneath the surface, troubling cracks are widening, especially in access, quality, and long-term care.
Greece’s 14–29s: Ambitious, anxious and lacking trust
The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) Youth Study Greece 2024, based on a representative survey of 1,000 respondents aged 14–29, paints a picture of a generation that values independence and family warmth, prizes career success, distrusts political institutions and is squeezed by economic barriers that delay adulthood.
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Survey charting young voters presents diverse fractures and politics
The Eteron Institute’s survey “X‑ray of Voters 2025,” based on 2,574 interviews conducted between 24 March and 4 April 2025, paints a complex, sometimes contradictory portrait of youth in Greece, showing that “the young” are neither monolithic nor uniformly progressive.
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Survey attempts to map current contours of progressivism in Greece
The first national survey conducted on behalf of the Progressive Lab’s sketches a profile of modern Greek progressivism that is emphatically social and economic rather than purely cultural.
Greeks crying out for political change but doubt it will happen, poll finds
Across the globe, citizens are calling for political change, but nowhere is the cry louder, or the hope apparently dimmer, than in Greece.
Access to housing market slipping away for young Greeks
The housing crisis is a central issue for the Greek public and the country’s political discourse, with the government attempting to address the challenges faced by young Greeks by allocating the lion’s share of its latest tax relief package to those under the age of 30 and families with two children or more children.
Survey of 2023 household budgets highlights lasting effects of debt crisis
The latest household budget survey for 2023 was released by ELSTAT and it shows that inflation continues to have an effect on spending, while the long-lasting impact of the debt crisis is still prominent.
Inequality rises marginally in 2023, with 1.9 mln Greeks at risk of poverty
The two main metrics of income inequality in Greece were released by ELSTAT in its 2023 survey on Wednesday, suggesting that the picture remained broadly stable, based on the 2022 income reference year, with small increase in both.
Workers lost almost 9 pct of real income last year, research shows
The Greek economy’s debt legacy issues have been lasting despite some progress in the last few years and they were once again captured in the latest annual report published by the research arm of Greece’s largest union GSEE.