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Political friction surfaces in first days of second national lockdown
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the Covid pandemic. SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has been visiting some of the worst-hit regions.... Tsipras has called for the appointment of a health minister with cross-party support, and for the formulation of six-month national pandemic strategy with the consensus of all political parties. He has also
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Greece persistently bottom of the list for EU gender equality
SocietyThe latest report by the European Institute on Gender Equality (EIGE) for 2020 has shown... for gender equality. Since 2005, the country’s score has risen by only 5.4 points. Since 2010, the overall score has risen by 3.6 points with only a single point improvement since 2015. The indicators
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Plans for easing lockdown on hold as coronavirus, poll numbers cause ND concern
PoliticsGreek Politics. This speculation has been partly fuelled by the efforts of some government officials to focus on more... the festive period. However, it is believed that the government has not seen any signs so far... has faced in tackling Covid-19 over the last few weeks, prompting an escalation in criticism from
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PM dismisses possibility of snap elections, sets out vaccine flow
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has dismissed speculation that he is considering calling snap elections later this year and has indicated that Greece’s latest lockdown is likely to be relaxed.... A year and a half after the elections, little has changed as New Democracy continues to try to project
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Greece and Turkey go into new round of exploratory talks with trust at a premium
PoliticsForeign Policy-year hiatus in the talks between the two countries. However, a new, broader process has also begun... underlining repeatedly that in the past the Turkish side has also tried to put on the table of talks.... In a recent interview with Monocle magazine, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he has “always
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Stricter Covid-19 restrictions mulled, but Greeks warming to vaccine
PoliticsGreek Politicsof half of daily Covid-19 cases (313 of 716 on Thursday) has sparked speculation that the greater Athens..., will be delayed. The local media has speculated that the night-time curfew could begin at 6 p.m., rather than... has stressed, via alternate spokesman Aristotelia Peloni, that it trying to “stay a step ahead
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PM aims to press ahead with reform agenda in face of scandals and pandemic
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the coming weeks, and the PM’s office has made it clear that it wishes to pursue a “rich legislative programme” right up until the end of June 2021. Top of the agenda is a labour reform bill, which has...’s image, which has been tarnished by missteps in handling the pandemic and has received a further
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Covid worries bring more wear and tear for govt, but no momentum for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsdeaths in Greece now stands at 7,701. This dire situation has cast doubt over the government’s next... about how useful the scheme would be. However, SYRIZA has now accused ND of trying to favour German... that Siemens is the only European firm that has received approval for its self-tests and that the terms
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The unbearably slow vaccination process in Croatia
Agoraimplemented 'half way through'. The vaccination has accelerated somewhat over the last two weeks... with deliveries to the European Union. And Croatia, like all other member states, except Hungary, has agreed... that it has recently been a year since Croatia, like many other countries, entered the first
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Productivity developments in the Greek public and private sector
Agorathe public sector because the private sector is bigger (has more weight) than the public sector... recovery in 2013/2014, but this was aborted around 2014/2015, and has declined since. For the whole period 2001-2020 (end-to-end), productivity in Greece has almost not changed. The private sector responds
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