Greece

Visitors to Greek museums and archaeological sites in October 2018 posted a 13.4 pct and 12.4 pct rise respectively in comparison with the same month in 2017 the Hellenic Statistical Authority ELSTAT reported on Friday. The increase in total visitors...

According to the final figures for 2017 released by Greece’s Statistics Authority (ELSTAT), Greek GDP increased by €3.75 billion ($4.20 billion). This increase is attributed to economic growth in Greece during 2017. Specifically, the Greek GDP rose from €176.48 billion...

The case of former head of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) Andreas Georgiou over misrepresentation of Greek financial data will be up for review by the Appeals Council for a third time, following a Supreme Court decision on Monday. The...

Visits to Greek museums and archaeological sites in August 2017 jumped 15.8 pct and 19.2 pct, respectively, the Hellenic Statistical Authority ELSTAT reported. The increase in total visitors to museums included a 13.1 pct hike in free-admission visitors, while museum...

More than one in three Greeks (36.4%) aged 16-74, made an online purchase of goods or services in the first three months of 2017, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) says. The ELSTAT survey figures show that 84.9% of Greek consumers...

Greek household spending has further shrunk 2.5 percent annually, according to figures released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), on Wednesday. Total monthly spending of households in 2016 amounted to 5.7 billion euros, down 2.5 percent, or 147.2 million euros,...

An Athens Appeal Court has sentenced the former head of ELSTAT Andreas Georgiou to two-year imprisonment on a charge of breach of duty. The sentence is suspended for three years. The Court did not recognize any mitigating circumstances and imposed the...

The prosecutor at an Athens Appeals Court has demanded a guilty verdict for the former head of Greece’s statistical authority (ELSTAT) Andreas Georgiou on breach of duty charges. The charges relate to Georgiou's parallel employment for a few months (from...

It is a matter of principle not to comment on national legal procedures, European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said on Thursday. Regarding the credibility of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) in the period 2010-2015, he said that the Commission has...

An Appeals Justices' Council on Friday again acquitted the former head of Greece's statistical authority Andreas Georgiou, as well as two other ELSTAT employees, of charges that he had artificially inflated Greece's 2009 public deficit figures. This was the...

Greece is experiencing a rise in long-term unemployment, ELSTAT, the country's statistics agency has reported. In the last quarter report for 2016, ELSTAT reported that 807,000 people have endured long-term unemployment, meaning that they have not worked for 12 months or...

Greek industrial production grew 7.2 pct in January 2016, with manufacturing production rising 1.1 pct in the month, Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) said on Friday. The statistics service said in their monthly report that the industrial production composite index rose 7.2...

The final reading on the primary surplus of 2016 will be published in April, the president of Greece’s statistics office ELSTAT, Thanasis Thanopoulos said on Wednesday, during a briefing of a parliament committee on the execution of the budget...

In December Greece saw its annual EU-harmonized inflation rate become positive, according to the latest figures by ELSTAT, the countries statistic agency. Figures released on Wednesday show that Consumer prices rose in goods such as alcoholic beverages, tobacco, housing, hotels...

With the financial crisis in Greece continuing to result in more austerities and less money in Greek professionals' pockets, many people have decided to move abroad. According to ELSTAT, the Hellenic Statistical Authority, over the past five years more than 500,000...