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Slight easing of Covid-19 data as focus turns to retail, budget
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat are not able to provide such a service. Naftemporiki reported that just 17 pct of the retail market has.... It was revealed on Sunday that the government has given permission to stores located in malls to also open to customers who have ordered online. The decision is a sign of the pressure the government has
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Lockdown set to be extended as political friction continues
PoliticsGreek Politicscame to 510. Although the latter figure suggests that Greece has yet to experience the full impact... by pointing to the online platform it has created allowing Greeks to volunteer for free tests at 386 points... no longer has a spotless record in the eyes of many voters, but SYRIZA has had no success in convincing
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ND holds on to large poll lead despite growing public dissatisfaction
PoliticsGreek Politics. Mitsotakis’s popularity has been reducing gradually since the Prorata poll in April, when it stood at 55 pct, however Tsipras has remained steady with 35 pct. The poll recorded a leap in the popularity of Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, whose handling of relations with Turkey has brought him a 60 pct
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University bill passes as parties' ideological dividing lines are laid bare
PoliticsGreek Politicsmore police officers. Both parties suggested that ND has a hidden agenda, which is to drive students away from public universities and to private colleges, which the government has already given... Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has appealed to and continues to covet. Right-wing developments
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Labour market developments in Greece during Covid-19
Agoralabour productivity is expensive in Greece. Much has changed during and after the euro-crisis in Greece... of the increase has been moderate. Two factors chiefly account for this difference. The government... again provides the numbers as in Figure 2. What do we see? · Participation, on trend, has been
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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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Athens aiming to boost EU-Balkan momentum
PoliticsForeign PolicyIt has been almost three years since the signing of the Prespes Agreement (June 12, 2018) between... neighbourhood, especially when it has already shown by signing the Prespes Agreement that is seeking... counterparts that since the landmark Thessaloniki Agenda of 2003, Greece has supported the European future
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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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