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  1. IMF sets out key priorities for Greece, including labour market flexibility
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    Economy

    process to review, among others, collective dismissals, industrial action and collective bargaining... that labour market reforms will be among the most contentious issues tackled as part of the second review..., Greece’s share of senior workers was the 16th highest among 20 European countries. The report also

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  2. Greece lagging in EU innovation rankings

    Economy

    Greece is ranked 19th among the EU-28 in the European Innovation Scoreboard, whose 2016 results... is between 50 and 90 percent of the EU average, ranking 7th among 14 EU countries. Over the past eight years, Greece was among the seven countries posting a negative performance, albeit only marginal

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  3. Newsletter 85 - 05/08/2016

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    it. This was not a surprise as Greek Orthodox hardliners are among the party’s core supporters. ANEL’s refusal..., among others. Jobless rate stable Greece’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained stable... that subsequently exacerbated the problem. Among the claims made against Georgiou are that he unnecessarily

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  4. Unemployment rate falls to 23.1 pct in second quarter, lowest since Q2 2012
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    ). Continuing a trend evident in the previous quarters, the unemployment rate among males fell at a faster pace of 1.9 pp to 19.4 percent compared to the 0.6 pp drop to 27.6 percent among women. The breakdown.... The jobless rate among young Greeks (15-24 years old) slipped to 49.1 percent, while that for the 45-64 years

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  5. Greek teens less likely to smoke, get drunk than European peers but gamble more
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    Society

    with the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), was conducted in 2015 among 96,043 pupils in 35 European countries. In what were the highest rates among their peers in Europe... to the overall results. By contrast, lifetime use of inhalants was more common among the Greek students.

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  6. Greece worst-performer in EU 28 for social justice
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    Society

    -discrimination, health and intergenerational justice. Greece was among the bottom five in all six... improvement (+1.02) since 2008 among 19 countries. With just over half (50.8 percent) of working-age... by the lowest rates of employment among older workers, a low ratio of women to men, and the highest

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  7. Newsletter 99 - 09/12/2016

    Newsletters

    which will exceed this year’s primary surplus target among pensioners. In a live televised address, Tsipras said that 617 million euros would be shared among roughly 1.6 million pensioners whose monthly... predecessor, Antonis Samaras, did something similar in 2014, when he shared out some 500 million euros among

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  8. Newsletter 109 - 03/03/2017

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    , among others. Athens admitted that the institutions reacted positively to some proposals... the coalition and among Greek voters so Tsipras needs to show that some kind of tradeoff is being made..., which concluded that a common understanding has been reached among all involved parties

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  9. ESM takes stock of Greece's sovereign vulnerability
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    EconomyProgramme

    indicator, a score of 1 to 4 is assigned in the ESM’s analysis. Specifically, if a country is among the 25 percent of best performers it is assigned the score 4 (most resilient), while those among... among the five countries and well below the rest of eurozone average figure of 2.7, meaning Greece

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  10. Coalition MPs gear up for busy period in Parliament
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    eyes on possible dissenters among SYRIA’s grouping. The draft law on the out-of-court workout is due... in the run-up to September’s national elections. While this has also caused concern among SYRIZA MPs... sought to nip in the bud any possibility of wavering among his deputies during his televised interview

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