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Budget primary confirms deficit of 9.06 bln in July, beating target
EconomyMacroeconomyeuros which was 723 million euros lower than its monthly target. State budget total revenues stood at 29.5 billion euros for the first seven months, lower than the target by 651 million euros, or 2.2 percent. Tax refunds came to 2.49 billion euros, lower than the target by 15 million euros. Broken
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Govt seeks ways to keep classrooms open in face of Delta variant
PoliticsGreek Politicsvaccination appointments. The coverage is lower among junior high school students, with fewer than one... that more than half a class would have to test positive for Covid-19 for lessons to be suspended, while... the news of Polakis’s vaccination was received with amusement rather than applause, made worse when
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PM announces extensive measures to build on recovery, counter inflation and put govt on track
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat following the latest GDP data, the government now expects the economy to grow by 5.9 pct rather than... generous than reports over the last few weeks had suggested. It also included several measures that had... a parliamentary majority to any party gaining more than 39 pct of the vote through the awarding of bonus
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We can't ignore population shifts within the European Union
Agora, there may be 4 million more inhabitants in the Netherlands, rather than the 1.4 million loss in the 2019... population, and was more population dynamic, than the north-west group (Figure 1). Since the 1990s... in refugees, than others (as is already the case among EU member states). I assume that most agree
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Spurred by rising employment, Q2 unemployment drops to 10-year low of 15.8 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyto be employed if the suspension period is less than three months or if they receive more than 50 percent.... Alarmingly, the largest portion, 181,700, has not worked for more than four years. Most of the employed
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Stalled vaccination campaign emerges as biggest headache amid fourth wave warnings
PoliticsGreek Politicsthree weeks of September daily vaccination appointments averaged around 30,000 – less than a third... 80 pct of those aged 60-80, well below the European average. Meanwhile, fewer than one in 10... that localised efforts have yielded better results than the centralised approach applied to date. Bogdanos
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The final stretch: Can fearmongering swing the German electorate?
Agora. We have been there before. Such a strategy was successfully applied by the CDU more than a decade... as the greater danger than existing climate change challenges and the economic consequences... and it is now also mathematically nearly impossible as no single party is expected to gain more than 25 percent
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Rival economic plans leave voters unimpressed amid uncertainty over new Covid surge
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe centrist voters who were targeted by both leaders in their speeches than Tsipras, with the leaders... vaccination. The poll found that more than half the 11 pct of respondents who claimed... to the highest priority groups, vaccination centres are still administering fewer than a third the number
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August sees first negative hirings balance of year
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s employment balance in August turned negative as there were 9,875 more departures than... the first month of 2021 with more departures than hirings. Total hirings in August came to 183,068 versus..., all other groups were negative with the largest at the 15-24 group with 7,608 more firings than
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Awaiting the magic wand that will end the pandemic
AgoraPlenković, also announced in April "a little more than 50 percent of vaccinated citizens", albeit... by that time with the bizarre headline: "Excellent news: More than half a million people are fully... to previous years is more than evident", Kolarić says, repeating for the umpteenth time that if 70 or 80
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