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Peter Sanfey

Peter Sanfey

Deputy Director, Head of Country Economics at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Jul 30, 2026

16:02
Well, what explains this disconnect, and what does it tell us about how ordinary Greeks have experienced the recovery compared to, say, firms and, uh, investors?
16:12
Yeah, thanks, Nick.
16:13
To me, I think this is one of the most interesting findings, one of the most striking findings in the paper.
16:18
And personally, I'm a big fan of these kind of soft data.
16:21
I think they're very instructive sometimes on confidence, uh, well-being, happiness, and so on, which we, we feature alongside the hard data as well, the hard economic data.
16:30
It's indeed a, a striking contrast.
16:33
Um, so the, the economic sentiment indicator, which is, uh, capturing the views of business is indeed, or at least at the time of finalizing the paper, uh, was above the EU average.

9 MINS LATER

26:12
Mm-hmm.

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