Finance Ministry

Legislation was tabled in Parliament on Friday that will allow Greece’s new public broadcaster, NERIT, to use the facilities and equipment left behind by its predecessor, ERT.

By Prokopis Hatzinikolaou

The Finance Ministry is set to make some adjustments to the plan for the distribution of the so-called social dividend, so that more recipients get a share of the 2013 primary budget surplus.

By Prokopis Hatzinikolaou

The Finance Ministry has been flooded with at least 225,000 applications for the «social dividend» benefit stemming from the 2013 primary surplus.

By Prokopis Hatzinikolaou

The Finance Ministry offering trespassers on 28,000 state properties favorable terms to buy them out.

By Sotiris Nikas

The yields of the 13-week treasury bills Greece auctioned off on Tuesday returned to levels not seen since before the country asked for a bailout in 2010, declining to 2.45 percent from 3.10 percent in March in a sure sign that the successful five-year bond issue last week has set T-bill rates on a new basis.

Finance Minister Petar Chobanov presented the priorities of the Bulgarian government during meetings with IMF representatives in Washington.

 Breakdown of buyers shows nearly half of them are investment fund managers as interest proved diverse

By Sotiris Nikas

 Despite more relaxed official statements, the Finance Ministry is gearing up for return to the markets

By Sotiris Nikas

Athens will issue its first bonds in four years later this week and will only sell them to foreign investors, sources have suggested.

By Thanos Tsiros

Almost half of Greece’s households appear to have survived on a monthly income below 800 euros in 2012, according to a report compiled by the Finance Ministry, which showed that 2,751,856 taxpayers, along with their spouses and protected members, declared an annual income of up to 9,500 euros for that year.

BELGRADE - IMF mission released on Friday that no specific fiscal consolidation measures were proposed in the talks with Serbian government officials, stressing that the IMF holds that the measures to be adopted should be socially acceptable.