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  1. Lack of vaccines led to panic in B&H, yet now they are going to waste
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    Agora

    the AstraZeneca jab. All attempts by those responsible to dissuade them have proven unsuccessful

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  2. PM makes new bid to address Covid wave, speculation about restrictions

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    , pushing the percentage of the general population that has had at least one jab up to 63.9 pct, while

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  3. Newsletter 100 - 16/12/2016

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    million below target. Unemployment rate drops for 2nd quarter Percentage of long-term unemployed to total jobless hikes ELSTAT figures showed the non-seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate dropped... in Q2. The headline figure is the lowest Q3 rate since 2011, when the jobless rate stood at 17.9 percent

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  4. ESM board to specify rules on short-term debt relief measures
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    , with new fixed-rate notes replacing the floating-rate notes used for the recapitalisation of Greek banks. The initial amount of the floating rate notes stood at 42.7 billion euros and was reduced to 35.4.... The second measure relates to interest rate swaps, with the ESM entering into interest rate swap

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  5. Eurogroup marks end of cycle and squaring of circle for Greece
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    profile to the ESM smoother, reduced interest rate risks for Greece by the ESM locking low interest rates and partly abolished some interest rate charges from 2012. The medium-term debt relief... 2017 include: - Abolish the step-up interest rate margin related to the debt buy-back tranche

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  6. Newsletter 74 - 20/05/2016

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    the indirect tax measures will stem from a rise in the basic VAT rate from 23 to 24 percent... the plenary discussion will take place over the The new law will see the basic VAT rate rise to 24 percent... to the top rate of VAT and the excise tax on fuel. The legislation concerning a fiscal mechanism

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  7. Newsletter 205 -10/05/2019

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    rate of VAT at 24 percent to the lower one, at 13 percent. Similarly, the VAT rate applied in the food.... For pensioners earning more than 1,000 euros, the rate will be 30 percent. Achtsioglou said... by 1.1 percent last year. The rate is seen as rising by 1.3 percent in 2019 and by 1.2 percent

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  8. Where is Odysseus? Part 4 - Unemployment and Employment
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    Agora

    . We can first consider how the economy may transition from today’s high (cyclical) unemployment rate to a more “natural (structural) unemployment rate” in the steady state. Once we have a path... economy, when left to its own devices, will normally cycle around an unemployment rate that is fairly

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  9. Newsletter 24 - 24/04/2015

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    interest rate by comparing it to that currently offered by commercial banks. The legislative decree... of the rate of withdrawals by depositors. Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis attempted to put a brave face... in January. February’s rate was the ninth negative reading since the beginning of 2014. The decline

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  10. Coalition not ditching referendum idea from policy options but details muddled

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    As much as it tries, the Greek government cannot escape the issue of if it will consider holding... holding a referendum on whatever is agreed by June “would not be a bad idea” as it would ensure... creditors would be willing to accept. In 2011, when George Papandreou suggested holding a vote

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