Annual inflation in Greece was 11.1% in August, which is 0.2% lower compared to the 11.3% announced in July, reports Eurostat. The consumer price index in Greece is estimated to have recorded a slight de-escalation of 0.2% in August compared to the previous month, in contrast to the entire Eurozone, where annual inflation is expected […]
The European Commission has revised down its forecasts for the Greek economy, forecasting GDP growth of 3.5% in 2022 and 3.1% in 2023 from 4.9% and 3.5%, respectively, compared to its forecasts. taken in February last year. On Monday, the European Commission published its spring report on economic growth in member countries. EU entitled “Economic […]
Most of all the population of the EU countries still spends on social security. Closely behind it is the item of expenditure on health care, while over the year the costs for it did not decrease, but increased – by an average of 1%. The second largest item of expenditure in countries EU amounted to […]
According to the YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project, Greeks are the first in Europe to consider reducing immigration a “high priority”. Most Western countries are in agreement on this issue, according to the poll, although some states appear to be more divided than others. In particular, the data show that Greeks are at the top of the […]
Greece’s population is shrinking by about 450,000 in a decade, meaning that in 30 years the country will have 1.5 million fewer people, according to the latest projections based on data released by the country’s statistics agency ELSTAT last week. This trend is underpinned by data on youth, whose numbers are declining at an alarming […]
The rapid spread of the Omicron mutation in the country is worrying the Greek authorities, especially since in the midst of this outbreak, an attempt is being made to safely reopen schools based on an updated protocol announced by the government, which some experts and the opposition consider insufficient. At the same time, the burden […]
The number of detected infections with coronavirus on the planet in just 7 days increased by 3.4 million. This is the highest figure in a week since the end of September and 0.3 million more than last week. The sad statistics of deaths are disappointing. For seven days, 51.5 thousand deaths were registered in the […]
The European Commission predicted strong growth for Greece – at 7.1% in 2021 and 5.2% in 2022 – in its autumn economic forecasts released on Thursday. Revising their forecasts for 2021 upwards from those published in July (4.3%), and slightly downwards for Greece for 2022 (from 6%). The commission’s report coincides with a report by […]
The World Health Organization reports a decrease in the incidence of COVID-19. But this is in general on the planet, and in Europe there is growth. Over the past week, from October 11 to 17, only in Europe, an increase in cases of coronavirus was recorded, according to the WHO epidemiological bulletin. The rest of […]
Last year, the Greek economy contracted 9%, higher than the March forecast of 8.2%. According to data Statistical Office of Greece, the country’s GDP fell to 167.077 billion euros from 183.640 billion euros in 2019. In particular, final consumption spending fell 5.5% (household consumption fell 8% and general government consumption rose 2.6%), compared with a […]
According to Eurostat, two-thirds of Greeks between the ages of 18 and 34 live with their parents, placing Greece in sixth place among 35 European countries. In particular, according to a recent survey by the European Statistical Office, based on data from 2019, about 50% of people between the ages of 18 and 34 in […]
According to data released today by Statistics Greece ΕΛΣΤΑΤ, the industrial price index jumped 14.6% in April this year compared to the corresponding index in April 2020. It is noted that with a corresponding comparison of indicators of 2020 with 2019, there was a decrease of 13.9%. The general index in April 2021 compared to […]