Vassilis Kostoulas

Age of retirement will remain below the European average despite the recent adjustments.

Greece is emerging as both a major exporter of doctors and nurses and a significant importer of foreign labor for tourism, construction and agriculture, according to new findings from the OECD's International Migration Outlook 2025.

The economy goes in cycles, but does history repeat itself? Speaking to Kathimerini, The New York Times financial columnist and CNBC presenter Andrew Ross Sorkin sees distinct differences but also some remarkable similarities with the global market conditions that preceded the biggest crash ever experienced by the Western world.

Greece is making less use of both its young and its elderly population than other developed economies, despite facing the strongest pressures in terms of demographic aging.

An OECD report confirms the considerable mismatch between the skills of the workforce and the jobs on offer in this country, stressing that Greece belongs to the group of economies where posts with specific skills account for over 70% of all vacancies. However, few job seekers express interest in job ads that refer to specific specifications – only 5%.

One of Donald Trump's strengths is his ability to sense what might be called the pulse of society – quite apart from his own capacity to shape collective perceptions in the United States. During the election campaign, he repeatedly surprised observers with his statements, often leaving political analysts – who viewed developments through the lens of political correctness – at a loss. In the end, it was they who had misjudged the situation.

As the impact of the Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRF) weakens, growth in Greece is expected to moderate, but it will not decline sharply, argued

For Greece to continue seeing its public debt declining, it needs to strengthen reforms that will increase productivity and offset the loss of resources from the expiration of the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Mathias Cormann, tells Kathimerini.

On one side, we have the regime in Iran and the threat it poses to global security. On the other, a unilateral intervention whose legality is under scrutiny. And Europe, for its part, is having to deal with the fallout of a war it has not chosen, comments Charles Michel, who served as the president of the European Council from 2019 to 2024. “A wait-and-see approach will not protect our interests or change the impact on our economies,” he says, speaking to Kathimerini ahead of his appearance at the 11th Delphi Economic Forum, running April 22-25.

Greece's “growth dividend” does not seem to cover the burden on the cost of living even for 2027, which means that hundreds of thousands of citizens risk seeing a percentage increase in their net income that is lower than that of inflation.