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Newsletter 290 - 26/03/2021
on the health system is likely to continue for the next two weeks as there has been no let-up in hospital... pressure on the health system has forced the government to postpone the reopening of retail which... citizens who left just short of 750 million euros in revenue. Greece has set a target of attracting 50
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Bulgaria's Covid-19 vaccination fiasco: excessive risks, mediocre results
Agoravaccine rollout has been dubbed a fiasco. However, if one looks at EU’s poorest and most corrupt member Bulgaria, one will see a catastrophe. While EU’s vaccination response has been lukewarm, its...! The vaccines available in the EU The EU has secured 2.6 billion vaccine doses from 6 different producers
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ND wrong-foots SYRIZA with call to lift expat vote restrictions
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe expat vote has become the latest pretext for a flare-up between the New Democracy government.... The existing law, which has not yet been put to the test in elections, requires Greeks who live abroad... and leftists MeRA25) are happy to court the diaspora vote on their own terms. KKE has gone so far as to accuse
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Newsletter 297 - 21/05/2021
despite an uptick in the last couple of weeks. Mitsotakis admitted that Greece has not yet built... that has been given to citizens and businesses, jeopardising the effort to bring the infection data... concern about the tourism industry’s prospects this year. The Finance Ministry, for instance, has
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Govt views pandemic window as opportunity to advance contentious reform agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the more positive economic recovery agenda. On the pensions front, New Democracy has been preparing.... The government has made assurances that the entitlements of existing beneficiaries and workers... to confrontation, however the government is already signalling that it has no intention of backing down
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Govt calls on local businesses and banks to free up capital for investment
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called on Greece’s entrepreneurs to invest in the country... been tempered as a result of the impact Covid-19 has had on the domestic economy, the tourism sector... for the positive work that he claims his government has done as the clock ticks down to the next elections
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The virus may be slowing, but fake news is still rampant
AgoraSince the outbreak of Covid-19 in China, one of the direct consequences has been the widespread... of information Based on data from specialized institutions, Kosovo has the highest average.... This assumption has actually been confirmed by empirical studies. According to a survey published
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Newsletter 304 - 09/07/2021
and the economy at large, apart from public health, have presented the government with a problem it has..., in keeping with the rising numbers earlier in the week and way up on last week’s figures. There has... Gerapetritis reiterated the position speaking to Skai 100.3 on Thursday. He said the economy has finite
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Stalling vaccination campaign, protests raise concerns on health and political fronts
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the adult population) has now been fully vaccinated, while 53.4 pct of the total population (63 pct of adults) has received at least one dose of a vaccine. The coverage by age cohort reveals stubborn gaps... in the short term, as across all age groups only an additional 1-2 pct has booked a first shot. Younger age
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Food delivery boycott prompts SYRIZA to argue against labour deregulation
PoliticsGreek PoliticsOpposition leader Alexis Tsipras has seized upon the recent controversy surrounding a popular food... reform agenda, and one of the areas where the opposition has found grounds for attack..., which his party has come to refer to as the “mother of battles”, and the efood controversy lent
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