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Greece - On the importance of productivity growth
Agorasize of the economy. More people tends to translate into bigger economies, and this can influence... a declining population leads to a shrinking labor force. Internally, population decline can generate... slow down or even decline and the population shrinks, distributional issues can become acutely
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Labour market developments in Greece during Covid-19
Agora, the month-to-month figures can be compared on an equal basis to tell us what is happening “under..., in particular for an economy that is recovering from a crisis as deep as Greece’s. It can take as much... recovery and employment consolidation. The challenge now is to see if government policy can assist
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Where is Odysseus? Part 3 - Participation
Agoraquestion is: how high can the participation rate go? Not everyone of working age can work... and not assume that the productive potential of the economy (the supply side of GDP) can deliver as large...! How can Greek workers working less (lower participation rates) be reconciled with Greek workers
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After Merkel, Samaras faces immediate challenges on domestic front
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter the relative relief provided by his visit to Germany to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is back in the thick of things in Greece, where his... the European Union’s six-month rotating presidency. Samaras’s visit to Germany more or less served its
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Chinese investments in Greece to be boosted by new agreements
EconomyGreece is hoping to sign agreements for investments worth 6-7 billion dollars during the three-day visit of the Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, which comes a year after the Greek Premier Antonis Samaras visited China. This is the first visit to Greece by a top Chinese official for four years
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SYRIZA's weak foreign, defence policy credentials a vulnerability
PoliticsForeign Policyof the republic in February, prompting snap polls, leftist leader Alexis Tsipras made an extended visit... visit to the Defence Ministry was SYRIZA’s warm references to Avramopoulos. The opposition party made
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Athens and Skopje press ahead with confidence measures despite uncertainty
PoliticsForeign Policy. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias revealed last week that Petros Mavroidis will visit Skopje within... visit to Skopje, which is due to take place by the end of June, according to Greek diplomatic
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Optimism for Cyprus solution abounds but talks at delicate phase
PoliticsForeign PolicyA visit by European Parliament president Martin Schulz to Cyprus on Wednesday added to the sense that the EU is holding out high hopes for a successful conclusion to the island’s reunification talks... Anastasiades, Schulz also met Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci. During his two-day visit, the German
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Greek effort to heal rift with Balkan neighbours may have come too late
PoliticsForeign Policyand the countries in the Western Balkans. Stoltenberg visit During visits to Athens and Ankara last week, NATO... which we are all aware of in relations between Turkey and Greece in this area.” Following his visit
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Athens sticks by effort to build bridges with FYROM
PoliticsForeign Policypolitical environment in FYROM and visit the country last Thursday to address the annual gathering of the neighbouring state’s ambassadors. The main message of Kotzias’ visit was summed up in one phrase
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