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Migratory flows and maritime rights create Libya conundrum for Athens
PoliticsForeign PolicyLibya on July 8 and to engage directly with local authorities. “Given the situation and observing a possible use of migration for political ends, we also need to be able to engage with the various
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Mitsotakis shrugs off scandals to hit back at foreign policy critics
PoliticsGreek Politicsto engage in “twitter diplomacy”. The latter was a direct swipe at Karamanlis’s deputy foreign... exploration in the disputed maritime zone, arguing that the US energy giant would not engage
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Newsletter 139 -10/11/2017
. The two measures consist of stricter legal measures for anyone who disrupts auctions and tighter... amendment that would lead to anyone preventing an auction taking place or someone harassing a notary... the ENFIA property tax for anyone paying more than 500 euros a year. But this was dismissed as “populist
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SYRIZA tweaks auction rules to appease MPs, defends clean exit narrative
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat anyone preventing or threatening to prevent an auction should automatically face action from the authorities without notaries or anyone else having to make an official complaint. Some SYRIZA MPs felt... action taken against anyone preventing auctions from taking place. Tsakalotos reportedly made
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Our cruel summer
Agorawas almost a rite of passage in Greece. The lax safety procedures never bothered anyone...” or “Pakistani” to be used liberally as a catch-all description for anyone deemed to be inferior or dispensable... valuable than anyone else’s. And the kind of cynicism that creates the sense that non-Greeks can
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Greece tops EU tables for lawyers but also pending administrative court cases
SocietyGreece tops the EU league tables in terms of the number of lawyers per population and has by far... per 100,000 in 2010 to 388 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2014. Also registering a high proportion... 6.4 cases per 100 inhabitants in 2012, compared to 21 in the EU – it was at the upper end
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Productivity developments in the Greek public and private sector
Agoraproductivity to lift per-capita income is important for Greece, then these trends would need to be reversed... periods. If we want to boost real GDP, we have to boost real GVA. Real GVA is available per quarter and per sector, so we can calculate quarterly GVA in real terms for the private and the public sector
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BoG data shows drop in card usage in first half of 2019
EconomyFeaturespercent. The average number of transactions per card also showed a reduction, coming to 25 transactions... transactions came to an average of 26 transactions per card versus 32 in the previous period, while credit... value of transactions per card dropped by 19 percent compared to the final six months of 2018
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Greek teachers low paid, but work shorter hours in smaller classes
Society, with nine pupils per teacher, below the OECD average of 15 and much below Mexico, where there are 28 pupils per teacher. Student-teacher ratios also vary, and to a larger extent, at the secondary school level, ranging from 30 students per full-time equivalent teacher in Mexico to 8 in Greece
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Parliamentary report highlights demographics challenge and urges immediate action
Societythis week raised further as it noted that the country’s fertility rate stood at 1.24 children per... to increase. Even if the average number of children per woman increased from 1.5 children to 1.8 children, the average number of births per year from 2018 to 2035 is unlikely to pass 95,000. An analysis
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