Deaths from work-related accidents increased sharply in the first quarter of this year, with one accident occurring almost every two days.
ECONOMY
Greece’s primary surplus stood at 4.498 billion euros in the first quarter of 2025, compared to a target of €616 million and a primary surplus of €2.987 billion during the same period in 2024, according to the state budget execution data, on a modified cash basis.
The European Commission said on Monday it had imposed duties of up to 66.7% on imports of Chinese machines that lift construction workers after concluding that the producers were benefiting from unfair subsidies and selling at artificially low prices.
Five years after his team presented a report that was supposed to serve as a blueprint for Greece’s transformation into “Europe’s California” with a new production model Christopher Pissarides takes stock of what has and has not been done.
Economic growth in the six Western Balkans countries is projected to moderately slow in 2025 due to weaker external demand and global economic uncertainty, the World Bank has said in a bi-annual report.
Facing sliding support among younger voters, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last week unveiled new financial support measures targeting renters and pensioners, key groups identified through recent focus groups conducted by his administration
Appointing Makis Voridis as head of the Migration and Asylum Ministry was one of the most striking elements of the recent cabinet reshuffle. The new minister already has a rich resume for his (anti-)immigration policy, albeit from a different position: As interior minister from 2021 to 2023, he was responsible for, among other things, legislation pertaining to citizenship procedures.
Surplus fiscal revenues generated by economic growth and the fight against tax evasion are being returned to society through permanent support measures, rather than one-off handouts, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on social media Sunday.
Nick Malkoutzis, the co-founder and editor of Macropolis.gr, joins Thanos Davelis as we look into Greece’s budget surplus and its standout fiscal performance, discuss this 1 billion euro support package Prime Minister Mitsotakis announced, and break down how it ties into Greece’s politics.
Greeks spent more than their income in the last quarter of 2024, according to provisional ELSTAT data.
Economy and Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis has met with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington.
Construction groups seek out their potential employees through sponsorships and incentives.
It all started with a can of olive oil from Messenia, in southwestern Greece. Anastasios Doukas immigrated to the United States in 1974, studied chemistry and opened a pizzeria in Connecticut.
In an interview with the Atlantic Council’s Joshua Lipsky on the sidelines of the IMF Spring Meetings, Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis underscored how far the country has come from being at the center of the eurozone crisis to now emerging as a bright spot in Europe’s otherwise uncertain economic landscape.
There is widespread belief that things are not going well in Greece. Polls consistently show that only 13 out of 100 people assess the conservative government’s economic policy positively.
Fifteen years to the day since Greece entered its first IMF bailout program, Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis addressed the institution that once symbolized economic hardship and painful austerity. This time, the message was one of recovery, resilience and reform.
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