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It's the hope that kills you
Agorareporting close to 250 per day and already had 21 coronavirus-linked deaths. Greece rode a wave... of sample testing per flight based on certain risk criteria per country of origin. Even..., 3,442 tests were conducted on average daily, with the average rising to 4,692 tests per day in June
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Bulgaria's Covid-19 vaccination fiasco: excessive risks, mediocre results
Agoraof the price of the EU’s and Bulgaria’s vaccine portfolios. If EU’s portfolio cost about 11 EUR per dose, Bulgaria’s would be 9 EUR per dose. I guess the “savings” of 2 EUR per dose (18%) is indicative... date, Bulgaria was the 2nd country in the EU by new confirmed deaths per million people on a rolling
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Where is Odysseus? Part 5 - Productivity
Agoraare disappointing. Real GDP per employee in Greece is growing less quickly than in Odysseus’ Plan of 2018... efficient are the workers in a country to produce real GDP? After all, productivity determines per-capita... calculate the path for real GDP per person employed. That is average labor productivity. Figure 3 presents
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Where is Odysseus? Part 6 - Potential real GDP
Agoraand bigger recovery of Greece. In blog 20, however, we documented a glitch, because productivity per... for average productivity per employed person, also with a high and low scenario alongside the baseline... with the average expected productivity per employed person, to build a baseline scenario for long-run real GDP
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Can the Green Transition be just?
Agorafrom the implementation of the scenario including shallow energy upgrades amount to €890 per year per household in 2030; opting for the scenario based on deep energy upgrades raises this sum to €1370... for 100,000 homes per year requires €22.7 billion, while the scenario comprising deep energy upgrades
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Newsletter 486 - 28/11/2025
these measures to a wider narrative of resilience: 2.4 per cent growth projected for 2026, nearly double... remain in force until replaced. With just 24 per cent of workers currently covered by collective agreements, the aim is to move closer to the EU directive’s target of 80 per cent. The Prime Minister
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Greece trying to lay 'phantom' pensions to rest
Societythey all had a legal entitlement to their monthly retirement pay. As a result, Greece’s main social... themselves either at an IKA office or at the place they receive their retirement pay from, such as post... pay after the claimant had died. Vroutsis said that the annual value of the unjustified claims
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A third of Greek homeowners fear losing their properties in 2014
Societyexpressed fear about losing their home. Only 61.2 percent of those questioned said they were able to pay their mortgage instalments on time, whereas 22 percent said they often pay late and 16.8 percent said... 1 million Greek households are paying mortgages, meaning that 168,000 owners are failing to pay
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Wage ruling gives gov't immediate fiscal headache, political one may come later
PoliticsGreek Politicsretroactively from August 2012. This would force the coalition to pay back the money those affected... on Wednesday but will not be able to use any of this money to pay back military personnel and policemen... to their salaries. A lower court that deals with wage issues ruled in December that judges’ pay should
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The wrong prescription
Agora. They also have to wait up to six months for social security funds and healthcare provider EOPYY to pay their share of medicine costs. The OECD also makes no mention of the fact pharmacies have to pay a rebate and suffered losses in the 2012 PSI on the Greek bonds the government used to pay them
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