• Snap poll sets back early IMF repayment • Parties spar over justice appointments ahead of polls • Borrowing rates tumble as Greece heads to election • Lamda sees rise in pre-tax profits # Greece’s snap general election has set back negotiations to settle IMF debts ahead of schedule. Greek Authorities and the creditors have to … Continue reading Athens Digest 31.05.2019 →

• Parliament Budget Office: Measures won’t derail budget • Semester results to give Greece signal • Top court posts touch off party row • Athens next mayor confronts anarchists, supporters of the terrorist who killed his father # Parliament's budget office says benefits announced by the Tsipras government will not throw the country’s fiscal path off … Continue reading Athens Digest 30.05.2019 →

• Varoufakis’ party misses comeback, seat goes to conservatives • Second thoughts on Greece report due to snap election on July 7 • Goldman Sachs: July election may help market full market return # With more than 99 percent of EU election votes counted in Greece, Yanis Varoufakis’ Mera25 party has narrowly failed to win a seat. The former … Continue reading Athens Digest 29.05.2019 →

• Markets welcome snap poll • Vote count drags into third day • PPC tender deadline for lignite-fired units moved to July 15 # Investors have welcomed the government’s decision to call a snap general election that ended months of uncertainty amid warnings from creditors of fiscal drift. Shares on the Athens Stock Exchange rose more … Continue reading Athens Digest 28.05.2019 →

• Tsipras calls snap elections • Early polls “likely to be market positive” says George Pagoulatos • Conservatives make gains in local, regional polls • Chairman of Attica Bank dies aged 69 # Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said he will call snap general elections after next weekend’s second round of local and regional elections following his … Continue reading Athens Digest 27.05.2019 →