The longest uninterrupted period of growth in Greece’s modern history is set to slow this year, but George Alogoskoufis, the finance minister, is confident it can be sustained at only marginally lower levels.
The economy expanded by an annualised 3.6 per cent in the first quarter, a better-than-expected result in view of the global slowdown, and just on the nose of the government’s full-year projection for 2008.
