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University bill passes as parties' ideological dividing lines are laid bare
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the main problem afflicting tertiary education is a lack of funding and facilities rather than... or law and order, which critics claim is closer to the hard right than the political centre that Prime... leads a small party called New Right that gained less than 40,000 votes (0.66 pct) in the European
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(Dis)Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the European Union
Agora. But it took more than two years to complete that task. While all countries in the region, except Kosovo... Balkan countries. The example of Croatia has shown that the path to the EU is more important than any... euroscepticism in the Western Balkans. Since 1996, the European Union has invested more than 3.5 billion euros
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Labour market developments in Greece during Covid-19
Agora700,000 persons less than before the euro crisis. It will take a while before the full damage... progress is more durable than spectacular success stories. While the latter is politically more... in well before COVID-19 emerged. This observation deserves closer scrutiny. More than
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Pandemic raises economic pressure as govt hopes for imminent relief
PoliticsGreek Politics, but 106 higher than a week earlier. On the plus side, Greece surpassed 1 million vaccinations on Thursday and is set to approve the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for 65s. More than 33,000 vaccinations were carried out on Thursday as the rollout gathers pace. More than 355,000 Greeks have received both
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Turnover in tourism drops by 57.6 pct in Q4
EconomyMacroeconomy) in the fourth quarter (Q4), a third straight quarter when it dropped by more than half, Hellenic... decreased by 51.6 percent on the back of lower than expected demand. According to the Bank of Greece... receipts than 2019. Payments also recorded a drop of 72.1 percent to 766.2 million euros, which
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Employment balance positive by 27,233 in Feb; highest since Sept
EconomyMacroeconomyThe employment balance was positive with 27,233 more hirings than people leaving their jobs... 71,195 departures. That only just makes up more than half the activity seen in the same month... balance was seen in those aged 30-44, where there were 9,777 more people hired than departed. Broken
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Excess of vaccines in Serbia will go to waste
Agorathat the corona virus is "much weaker than the seasonal flu" and that Serbia can develop the vaccine... alone will not help, because there are a thousand times more fake news than videos with smiling..., all employees of the BiH Constitutional Court and more than a hundred Macedonian journalists have
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Govt ponders Covid measures for Easter as pandemic handling comes in for more scrutiny
PoliticsGreek Politicspreparations for what the government and the tourism industry are hoping will be a better season than... that could lead to authorities adopting a more cautious approach than they would have liked over... of hairdressers and beauty salons, for which they then sought approval from the panel of experts, rather than
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PM banks on firms bouncing back after lockdown as SYRIZA decries immunity for Covid panel
PoliticsGreek Politicsto an 8.2% contraction last year. This figure was slightly lower than the 4.8% included in the 2020... trying to get the experts to rubber stamp its policies rather than genuinely seeking their advice... much further than this and essentially provides blanket immunity. He suggested that the tweak
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A brief lexicon of the Cyprus issue negotiations
AgoraHere we go again. After a hiatus of more than 3 years, the negotiations for the resolution... discourse of the island for more than 40 years. Federation: The 1960 constitution of the Republic... and of land ownership in the area’. Given that more than 75 per cent of the private owned land
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