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Eight years later: Is Croatia finally truly ready for Europe?
Agorarights, which, unlike most developed European countries, are much more happily discussed than put... International, in terms of the corruption index, Croatia did worse than Rwanda in 2020. For two years... programming period of cohesion policy, so it is announced that it will get more money than other countries
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Newsletter 285 - 19/02/2021
capital for more than a decade. This, along with other snow-related problems, triggered an attack... wildfire in 2018, which resulted in the deaths of more than 100 people. At the time, New Democracy... to the heaviest snowfall seen in the Greek capital for more than a decade. SYRIZA’s efforts
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The unbearably slow vaccination process in Croatia
Agorain the current second phase of vaccination. To put this figure in context, we should say that in Croatia, according to the Government's vaccination plan published in December, there are more than... vaccination are "significantly less delivery of vaccines than promised" because "all manufacturers failed
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Labour compensation and productivity in the EU-27 and Greece
Agora, there is a large premium on working for the private sector, rather than for the government. The EU economy... salaries in the 2000s than the private sector (average of around 25 euros per hour, versus 20 euros... sector attracts more employees than the public sector. Indeed, if one takes job stability
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Politicians have commissioned, and largely ignored, multiple reports on wildfires
SocietyDemocracy came to power promising to deliver a more competent government than its predecessor, having..., and of focussing almost exclusively on evacuations rather than getting the fires under control. By the end... unheeded. More than a decade later, the Goldammer report reiterated that call even more strongly
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Govt weighs up impact of Ukraine war on recovery, waits for decisions at EU level
PoliticsGreek Politicspronounced than initially expected and Greece has soon to work on its 2023-2026 Medium Term Fiscal Strategy... that revenues from indirect taxes were already 280 million euros lower than the target in January. It is also... ministers are due to meet again in less than three weeks. It is also hoping that ECB policy will remain
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Newsletter 337 - 13/05/2022
than before the crisis began. Although details about exactly how the price cap will work have... that it may be even smaller. The size of the “windfall” is much smaller than the 1.5 billion euros... to be put on the parliamentary record before the next debate. New Democracy’s opponents have sensed
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Government offers free holidays, bigger fines and more hirings in evolving fire response
PoliticsGreek Politics, which is that many of this year’s fires were the result of human actions rather than the record... officials have been suggesting that many of these blazes were caused by arson, Kikilias did not put... and that this is the main reason behind the recent devastation, rather than poor preparation, bad coordination
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Newsletter 425 - 31/05/2024
rejected the claim that even some Greek products are more expensive in Greece than other parts of Europe... to check on the price of feta. In every case, the price of the cheese was higher than 6.28 euros per kilo... seats between eight or nine parties. The undecided stand at 9.3 pct, while fewer than half
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ND directs fire at PASOK over Tempe as ruling party’s MPs grumble over land decree
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPavlos Marinakis argued this week that “PASOK is more exposed than other parties” after the NTUA report... rather than any undeclared load of chemicals on board the freight train involved in the accident... of Freedom. Zoe Konstantopoulou and her party have been much more aggressive than the social democrats
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