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Parties debate pandemic response as public approval deteriorates
PoliticsGreek Politicsguidelines require 10 square metres per MP in Parliament but only 2 square meters per pupil.... However, the coming weeks will be critical in measuring their ability to manage an increasingly
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Govt looks for positives as it steps up vaccine rollout
PoliticsGreek Politics1,000 vaccines a day. The authorities aim to step up this number to 5,760 per day and 6,480 per day... estimates, of 14 billion euros, from 6.6 billion before. Just six weeks into the new year
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Health service in spotlight as govt scrabbles for more measures to contain Covid
PoliticsGreek Politicsof deaths rose by 23 to 6,557. As has been the case for the last few weeks, around half of the daily... Finance Minister Theodoros Skylakakis told Skai TV on Tuesday is costing 200 million euros per week... salaries for new doctors to 2,000 euros per month and the wages of other staff. Several high-profile
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First-wave champion Greece stumbles at vaccine roll-out
Agoratested countries in the world with 18.4 daily tests per thousand people according to Our World... it was administering just 2 tests per thousand people. The number of tests increased with the introduction of mass... the country in August. However, in a series of moves over recent weeks all the faces of the pandemic campaign
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Government and citizens in Montenegro: Turning a deaf ear to warnings, measures and responsibility
AgoraMontenegro is one of the countries with the highest number of new cases of COVID-19 per 100... as 315 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, the country ranks third in the world, and second in the region..., some people are waiting for days for mobile vaccination. Some of them applied for it a couple of weeks
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Awaiting the magic wand that will end the pandemic
Agora, in May, over 40,000 doses per day were applied, while in mid-October, when this text was written, it was an average of 4,000-5,000 doses per day. Bit by bit. In the meantime, a series of protests have... numbers of new infections and deaths we have witnessed in recent weeks are the result of the fact
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Impact of inflation already widespread, but data suggests worse to come
EconomyFeaturesspeech at the Thessaloniki International Fair. The overall package over the last few weeks has more than... of kWh has gone up by roughly 120 pct since January to 0.335 euros and the wholesale price per MWh was above 200 euros. Natural gas prices are up by 198 pct to 0.125 euros per kWh and heating oil has
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Newsletter 432 - 06/09/2024
couple of weeks in an attempt to defend its economic record, culminating in the Finance Ministry..., it only gained traction over the past few days. It uses wages per hour based on unit labour costs... place Greece near the bottom of the EU, only above Bulgaria. For instance, in the index of GDP per
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Finance Ministry's defence of economic record highlights area of policy weakness
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Greek government pulled out all the stops over the last couple of weeks in an attempt to defend... the past few days. It uses wages per hour based on unit labour costs and purchasing power parities where..., only above Bulgaria. For instance, in the index of GDP per capita, also in purchasing power
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PM hits back at labour reform critics, defends 13-hour working days
PoliticsGreek Politicshours per year. A sixth working day earns a 40 pct wage bonus. New Democracy’s reforms also enable... workweek and are trending toward reduced hours — with Belgium and Spain trialling four-day weeks... employers under strict conditions, which include a maximum of three days per month, employee
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