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Unemployment at 16.7 pct in October, unchanged from October 2019
EconomyMacroeconomysuspension is less than three months or if they receive more than 50 percent of their salary. The data.... Particularly, response in urban areas had been lower than usual due to the pandemic. The latest... was positive with 2,116 more hirings than firings during the month. Compared to the same month last year
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Budget primary shows deficit of 18.20 bln in 2020, total deficit at 22.81 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyto 5.24 billion euros which was 100 million euros higher than the monthly target. State budget net revenues came to 47.36 billion euros in 2020, as mentioned, 906 million euros or 2 percent above than... billion euros, higher than the target by 1.22 billion or 2.4 percent. The full revenue breakdown
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Greece hopes beaches won't be empty again this summer, but vaccination numbers say otherwise
Agora. The strategy is functioning well so far By mid-February, there were more than 750 vaccination points...%. The uptake is higher among doctors than among nursing staff (77% and 51% respectively), leading... of the vaccination programme have attracted less scrutiny than they might merit. They include
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Greece falls behind on gender equality due to drop in political empowerment
Societywas closed in 2021, 0.6 percentage points less than in 2020, indicating that women were more adversely affected by the pandemic than men. However, the widening of the gender gap in Greece was not strongly... in over the past decade, fewer than a quarter of elected parliamentarians are women. According to gender
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Set-to in Ankara well received in Athens, where Covid-19 data causes worry
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe foreign minister about his Ankara trip. SYRIZA suggested that rather than “responding... at 9,239. Also, the number of intubated patients rose to 819 as more than 3,800 new cases were reported... to such plans. Although the vaccination programme is moving ahead at a faster clip than last month
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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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Unemployment drops to 15.9 pct in May, inactive figure also eases to 3.23 mln
EconomyMacroeconomyby more than 168,000 people month-on-month. Year-on-year, the number of employed increased significantly... employed if the duration of their absence was less than three months and they continued to receive.... The inactive population is more than 3 million people, at 3.23 million, is broadly in line with last year
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Newsletter 308 - 17/09/2021
to grow by 5.9 pct rather than the previous forecast of 3.6 pct. Mitsotakis focussed mostly... than 39 pct of the vote through the awarding of bonus seats. Mitsotakis will want to remain in office... but is levied against public sector employees and pensioners earning more than 12,000 euros per year
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Tsipras looks for fresh start as Mitsotakis holds election cards
PoliticsGreek Politicscontest sooner rather than later. In this context, his main aims appeared to recast himself as on older, wiser and more moderate politician than in the past and to present his party as being more concerned about the social and economic welfare of the average Greek than the ruling conservatives. Like
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More lost ground made up in Aug as travel surplus nears 3 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyoutbreak, according to Bank of Greece (BoG) data released on Friday. Although performance more than... billion euros for the month, more than doubling year-on-year, from 1.38 billion. Travel payments rose..., to 756.3 euros, however it is much higher than the 595.5 euros average of 2019. Travel receipts from
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