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  1. Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016

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    the debate on pension reform held in Parliament among political party leaders on Tuesday, Prime Minister...-EU sentiment building up within the government and among voters. For the time being though, the main... on the wrong side of some city dwellers, with lawyers, engineers and doctors among the professionals

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  2. Greek regions perform poorly in social progress index

    Society

    Ranking 257 out of the 272 regions in the EU, the Peloponnese region is among the weakest in terms... example. While Attica ranks 59th among the EU’s regions for GDP per capita, it is 235th in the SPI... of cooperation among the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission

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  3. Unemployment rate drops further to 24 pct in Dec, lowest since April 2012
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    . The unemployment rate among men declined at a sharper pace compared to that among women over the last 12... percent, while slower drops were evident in the 35-44 years old to 20.4 percent and among youth to 48.9

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  4. Club Med in Washington
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    Agora

    process boils down to a fundamental lack of trust among the parties involved, persistent doubts about execution willingness in Athens and recurring finger-pointing among the creditor community. Another... but not least, Italy is among the “Club Med” delegation to the spring meetings. In many respects

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  5. Unemployment rate slips to 24.2 pct in February
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    be more than 70,000 in the same period. The unemployment rate among men was trimmed by 2 percentage... percent. In contrast, the unemployment rate among those aged 55-64 rose by more than 11 pp to 19.3 percent. In addition, unemployment among youth eased to 51.4 percent. The highest jobless rate

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  6. Adult skills in Greece lacking, indicates OECD survey
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    Society

    among 55-65 year-olds. In the area of problem solving in technology-rich environments, only 2.5... percentage observed among all participating countries and significantly lower than the OECD average... difference is 61 points). “The performance advantage among tertiary-educated adults is smaller than average

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  7. IMF sets out key priorities for Greece, including labour market flexibility
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    Economy

    process to review, among others, collective dismissals, industrial action and collective bargaining... that labour market reforms will be among the most contentious issues tackled as part of the second review..., Greece’s share of senior workers was the 16th highest among 20 European countries. The report also

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  8. Greece lagging in EU innovation rankings

    Economy

    Greece is ranked 19th among the EU-28 in the European Innovation Scoreboard, whose 2016 results... is between 50 and 90 percent of the EU average, ranking 7th among 14 EU countries. Over the past eight years, Greece was among the seven countries posting a negative performance, albeit only marginal

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  9. Unemployment rate falls to 23.1 pct in second quarter, lowest since Q2 2012
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    ). Continuing a trend evident in the previous quarters, the unemployment rate among males fell at a faster pace of 1.9 pp to 19.4 percent compared to the 0.6 pp drop to 27.6 percent among women. The breakdown.... The jobless rate among young Greeks (15-24 years old) slipped to 49.1 percent, while that for the 45-64 years

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  10. Greek teens less likely to smoke, get drunk than European peers but gamble more
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    with the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), was conducted in 2015 among 96,043 pupils in 35 European countries. In what were the highest rates among their peers in Europe... to the overall results. By contrast, lifetime use of inhalants was more common among the Greek students.

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