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BoG insists on need for bad bank, sees EU funds boosting recovery from 2021
Economyin the following year. The bank presents two alternative scenarios, a milder one that recession does not exceed 9 pct and a more severe one that sees a stronger and longer impact of the pandemic, where... assisted by a large securitisation of one systemic bank and are down by 48.5 billion euros since
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Attention turns to economic activity, support measures as Covid-19 vaccine rollout begins
PoliticsGreek Politics, to receive one of the small first batch of vaccines to arrive in Greece as part of the European Union’s... Ranking, which suggested that Greece is one of the worst countries in which to ride out the pandemic, slipping to 50 out of 53, down 19 places from a month earlier. He noted that Greece’s one-month case
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Greece extends territorial waters in Ionian, hopes for deal with Albania
PoliticsForeign Policywith neighbouring countries is one of the main aims for Athens in 2021, diplomatic sources note. The first move... waters is one of the issues that Turkey is seeking to examine within the framework of the exploratory... side as one of its diplomatic achievements in 2020. In his interview with Parapolitika weekly
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Retail sector re-opens as govt examines further support for businesses
PoliticsGreek Politicsby one more month. According to Kathimerini, the Finance Ministry is devising a support plan for businesses that will be rolled out in three stages: One up to April, the second until the end of the year... in the first months of the new year. One of the reasons that the government decided to allow certain
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Who is left dreaming the European dream in Serbia?
Agorain the process of EU integration. One of the consequences of that process is that democratization...' support for Serbia’s EU integration process. The last one was conducted in December 2019. The results... enlargement policy and attitude towards potential future members. So, on one hand, there was the French “Non
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North Macedonia's road to Brussels: Breaking the vicious cycle
Agora, which is now in the forefront of the accession agenda. Thus, one of the key conditions... Economic Area (implying a new, not the existing, one). No one even tried to think through how
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Somewhere in the middle: Kosovo's delicate relations with the European Union
Agora-recognizers in its relations with Kosovo. In general, this has been one of the key factors in impacting... from an easy diplomatic endeavour for the union. One of the key challenges derives from the stark... 9% answered that they believe that Kosovo will never manage to become an EU member. One may wonder
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Some sad lessons the Western Balkans can learn from Bulgaria's EU Journey
Agoraofficial is as likely to take a bribe as a Russian one. The Nations in Transit Report by Freedom House... it or not, there is an actual “happiness survey” by Eurostat — the latest one shows that only 35% of Bulgarians are happy... place as planned. In this light, one may doubt if the EU has taken any lessons from the latest
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Govt looks for positives as it steps up vaccine rollout
PoliticsGreek Politicsto perform up to 2,400 vaccinations a day, while the one in Thessaloniki will be able to deliver... inoculated with other vaccines. By Friday, February 13, 371,462 people had received at least one jab... at least one jab by the end of March, with all those 75 and between 60 and 64 being fully protected
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(Dis)Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the European Union
Agoraprocurement of medical equipment. This is just one of the examples the report addresses; Bosnia...". The fight against corruption should be number one priority and there is no other alternative. If Croatia... individual person and that the fight against corruption does not end with the arrest of one person, nor
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