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Bulgaria's Covid-19 vaccination fiasco: excessive risks, mediocre results
Agoraof the price of the EU’s and Bulgaria’s vaccine portfolios. If EU’s portfolio cost about 11 EUR per dose, Bulgaria’s would be 9 EUR per dose. I guess the “savings” of 2 EUR per dose (18%) is indicative... date, Bulgaria was the 2nd country in the EU by new confirmed deaths per million people on a rolling
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Where is Odysseus? Part 5 - Productivity
Agoraare disappointing. Real GDP per employee in Greece is growing less quickly than in Odysseus’ Plan of 2018... efficient are the workers in a country to produce real GDP? After all, productivity determines per-capita... calculate the path for real GDP per person employed. That is average labor productivity. Figure 3 presents
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Where is Odysseus? Part 6 - Potential real GDP
Agoraand bigger recovery of Greece. In blog 20, however, we documented a glitch, because productivity per... for average productivity per employed person, also with a high and low scenario alongside the baseline... with the average expected productivity per employed person, to build a baseline scenario for long-run real GDP
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Can the Green Transition be just?
Agorafrom the implementation of the scenario including shallow energy upgrades amount to €890 per year per household in 2030; opting for the scenario based on deep energy upgrades raises this sum to €1370... for 100,000 homes per year requires €22.7 billion, while the scenario comprising deep energy upgrades
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Minimum wage increase crashes against reality of Greeks' low purchasing power
Agoraclashed with the latest data released by Eurostat concerning per capita GDP in the EU in purchasing... that will take the gross wage to 880 euros, paid out in 14 salaries per year, was initially... in 2022 due to the Ukraine conflict and the energy turbulence. Per ELSTAT, housing costs are up by 22 pct
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Newsletter 486 - 28/11/2025
these measures to a wider narrative of resilience: 2.4 per cent growth projected for 2026, nearly double... remain in force until replaced. With just 24 per cent of workers currently covered by collective agreements, the aim is to move closer to the EU directive’s target of 80 per cent. The Prime Minister
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Are politicians in Greece promoting reforms or social cannibalism?
AgoraInterior Minister Leonidas Grigorakos claimed in August that 10 percent of the 85,000 civil servants
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Scars for coalition, questions for SYRIZA after confidence vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the government attracted 153 votes of support. Tzakri, a former deputy interior minister, was not a leading
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PASOK unites forces with Greek "Olive Tree" for EP elections but will it be enough?
PoliticsGreek Politicsstill pending for the alliance is who will head the ticket for the May elections. Former Interior
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Key Greek election date firms up; turnout could prove crucial
PoliticsGreek Politicsof voting in the local polls but Interior Minister Yiannis Michelakis confirmed over the weekend
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