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Some sad lessons the Western Balkans can learn from Bulgaria's EU Journey
Agorathan in 2009. The 2020 Rule of Law Index by the World Justice Project has given Bulgaria the worst.... There are more Bulgarians working abroad than in Bulgaria. Mass emigration has left key sectors barren — more than half of the doctors in Bulgaria are above 55 years old. The country has the highest death
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Newsletter 285 - 19/02/2021
capital for more than a decade. This, along with other snow-related problems, triggered an attack... wildfire in 2018, which resulted in the deaths of more than 100 people. At the time, New Democracy... to the heaviest snowfall seen in the Greek capital for more than a decade. SYRIZA’s efforts
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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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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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Politicians have commissioned, and largely ignored, multiple reports on wildfires
SocietyDemocracy came to power promising to deliver a more competent government than its predecessor, having..., and of focussing almost exclusively on evacuations rather than getting the fires under control. By the end... unheeded. More than a decade later, the Goldammer report reiterated that call even more strongly
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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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The quarterly national accounts from the income side
Agorathan for many EU partner countries, which are close to, but not yet above, the level of their output...) must give the same result—an economy cannot absorb (demand) more than is produced (supply; inventory... profits (Figure 1b) in Greece have been higher than in the euro-zone countries: around 54 percent
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Travel receipts of 2.18 bln in Sep as arrivals pick up and spending per trip increases
EconomyMacroeconomymore than doubled, the balance is well below the 2.67 billion euros seen in September 2019. However.... Receipts came to 2.18 billion euros for the month, more than doubling year-on-year, from 867.6 million... increased by 10.7 percent, to 717.6 euros, and much higher than the 551.6 euros average of 2019
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Despite job losses in Q4 2021, year closes with positive hirings balance
EconomyMacroeconomybalance of 79,129 more departures than hires in November. The balance in December 2020 was positive... balance of 70.048 more firings than hirings. The highest positive balance was noted in May, with 95,166 more hires than departures. Total hirings in December came to 193,008 versus 195,606 departures
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