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Big Brother for public works

A new bill by the Ministry of National Economy and Finance provides for the creation of a Register for Recording and Monitoring Maintenance and Operation Expenditures of the Public Investments Program (PIP).

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13.05.2024 / 14:26

What’s worrying Stournaras

Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras is understood to be concerned about the course of the country’s economy regarding its long-term sustainability and about the convergence of the income of Greeks with that of their European peers.

02.05.2024 / 08:49

RRF is precious for growth

The expansion rate of the economy this year would have been just over 1% were it not for the resources of the Recovery and Resilience Fund.

24.04.2024 / 10:10

Higher primary surplus in 2023

Last year’s primary surplus in Greece proved significantly higher than the budget estimate for 1.1% of gross domestic product, reaching 1.9% of GDP and making it easier to meet this year’s target of 2.1% of GDP.

24.04.2024 / 08:48

IOBE sees 2024 growth at just 2.1% now

The IOBE was added to the organizations that have downwardly revised their forecasts for this year’s Greek growth, placing it at 2.1%.

20.04.2024 / 10:56

Loans of 2.4 bln euros to SMEs

Twelve banks have expressed an interest in participating in the Third Entrepreneurship Fund (TEPIX III).

16.04.2024 / 21:13

Is there tax revenue fatigue?

After many months of outperformance, March tax revenues were slightly short of the budget target.

09.04.2024 / 10:41

Sectors guilty of greedflation

The pandemic and the energy crisis gave Greek companies an opportunity to significantly increase their profit margins. The phenomenon of profit inflation or “greedflation” was seen internationally in the period 2021-2022, but it assumed large dimensions in Greece.

06.04.2024 / 11:06

Exports take growing share of economy

Progress in the indexes of the outward-looking side of the Greek economy, such as exports and the attraction of foreign direct investments, is recorded in the bulletin of the Reforms Observatory of the Center for Planning and Economic Research (KEPE).

02.04.2024 / 09:15

Inflation hurts poorest most

The poorest 10% of households would have had to increase their spending by more than 16% to keep food and energy consumption constant between 2019 and February 2024.

16.03.2024 / 04:00

Overshoot in 2023 budget takings

Tax revenues and the primary result of the budget in January and February exceeded the target, but this is largely counted in the 2023 budget, per the Finance Ministry.

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