A year-on-year decrease of € 2.7 billion or 2.3% compared to 2015, was registered in the disposable income of households and non-profit institutions serving households, standing at € 114 billion, down from € 116.7 billion a year ago.

Unemployment declined by 1.9 percentages points to 21.7 percent in May from 23.6 percent in the same month last year, Greece?s statistics agency ELSTAT said in a report on Thursday. The rate follows an upwardly revised 21.8 percent in April 2017. 

Former ELSTAT chief Andreas Georgiou, sentenced yesterday to a two-year imprisonment with a three-year suspension for a breach of duty, was interviewed by the Financial Times.