Fiscal leeway question mark

Is the leeway the European Commission has given to Greece to increase public spending by 3 billion euros per year enough to cover the new support measures that will be included in 2025 budget?

This is the question the government will seek to answer in the coming weeks as preparations progress both for the prime minister's speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair and for the drafting of the midterm plan that will cover the period up to 2028, as well as the submission of the draft budget in October.

Finance Ministry officials take for granted the integration of all the measures that have already been announced for the next year, while leaving open the possibility of some space for other interventions in the fields that the government wants to focus on: Housing, demographics, benefits and dealing with inflation. Since the demographic issue is a pressing problem, the...