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Budget primary confirms deficit of 9.06 bln in July, beating target
EconomyMacroeconomyeuros which was 723 million euros lower than its monthly target. State budget total revenues stood at 29.5 billion euros for the first seven months, lower than the target by 651 million euros, or 2.2 percent. Tax refunds came to 2.49 billion euros, lower than the target by 15 million euros. Broken
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Govt seeks ways to keep classrooms open in face of Delta variant
PoliticsGreek Politicsvaccination appointments. The coverage is lower among junior high school students, with fewer than one... that more than half a class would have to test positive for Covid-19 for lessons to be suspended, while... the news of Polakis’s vaccination was received with amusement rather than applause, made worse when
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We can't ignore population shifts within the European Union
Agora, there may be 4 million more inhabitants in the Netherlands, rather than the 1.4 million loss in the 2019... population, and was more population dynamic, than the north-west group (Figure 1). Since the 1990s... in refugees, than others (as is already the case among EU member states). I assume that most agree
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Spurred by rising employment, Q2 unemployment drops to 10-year low of 15.8 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyto be employed if the suspension period is less than three months or if they receive more than 50 percent.... Alarmingly, the largest portion, 181,700, has not worked for more than four years. Most of the employed
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Stalled vaccination campaign emerges as biggest headache amid fourth wave warnings
PoliticsGreek Politicsthree weeks of September daily vaccination appointments averaged around 30,000 – less than a third... 80 pct of those aged 60-80, well below the European average. Meanwhile, fewer than one in 10... that localised efforts have yielded better results than the centralised approach applied to date. Bogdanos
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Rival economic plans leave voters unimpressed amid uncertainty over new Covid surge
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe centrist voters who were targeted by both leaders in their speeches than Tsipras, with the leaders... vaccination. The poll found that more than half the 11 pct of respondents who claimed... to the highest priority groups, vaccination centres are still administering fewer than a third the number
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August sees first negative hirings balance of year
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s employment balance in August turned negative as there were 9,875 more departures than... the first month of 2021 with more departures than hirings. Total hirings in August came to 183,068 versus..., all other groups were negative with the largest at the 15-24 group with 7,608 more firings than
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SYRIZA squeezes govt over relationship with media
PoliticsGreek Politicsasked the government to explain why this publication received more than the larger and more widely... aim to make SYRIZA, rather than New Democracy, the social democratic grouping’s main opponent. His... interlocutor for KINAL than SYRIZA. Many observers believe that a KINAL led by Loverdos could
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Papandreou boasts strong backing as KINAL gears up to elect new leader
PoliticsGreek Politicsvotes, and there is a sense that he would be more amenable than other hopefuls to the prospect.... This would be the case if any candidate were to gain more than 50 pct of the vote this weekend... in November 2017, around 210,000 people voted in the first round and more than 155,000 in the run-off vote
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Strong surplus in Nov as travel balance nears year-end with 58.6 pct of 2019 intakes, 46.7 pct of arrivals
EconomyMacroeconomyon the travel front continues to be encouraging – apart from rising by more than five times compared to the 33.3-million-euros figure of last year, the November 2021 data is even higher than the 108.8 million... expenditure per trip increased by 25.6 percent, to 495.3 euros, and significantly higher than the 308.4
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