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Vaccines provide govt with hope of pandemic exit as labour reform battle gathers pace
PoliticsGreek Politicsalone might be out of reach. But after administering about 1.6 million jabs up to the end of March... of June. One blight on the Greek vaccination programme so far is the low take-up among older... that the other opposition parties have also lined up against the bill, which could lead to the first
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Govt hopes opening of cafes and bars marks next step in return to normality
PoliticsGreek Politicsdue to the Easter celebrations. The authorities are hoping that from May 5, the scheme will step up... to around 1,000 at the moment. This will allow up to 2.5 million jabs to be administered in May, compared to around 1.5 million in April, and up to 4 million in June. The scheme was boosted over the past few
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PM riles SYRIZA with remarks on EU anniversary
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy has held up this moment as proof of its pro-European, modernising credentials even if the party has at times failed to live up to these ideals. It was no surprise, therefore, that Mitsotakis... up this period again, Mitsotakis feels he can undermine SYRIZA’s effort, albeit a stop-start one
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Amid promising signs for tourism, govt hedges its bets with targeted support
PoliticsGreek Politicsclaim 5 pct of turnover, and other tourism businesses 2.5 pct, up to a ceiling of 400,000 euros each... welcomed the announcement, while hinting that more may be required if business does not pick up as hoped... as key for enabling travel within the bloc and opening up some of Greece’s biggest tourist markets
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Labour compensation and productivity in the EU-27 and Greece
Agorathat the measure of productivity spiked up (the opposite effect from what has been observed in the EU-27... sector needs to speed up, and labor allocation needs to switch from predominantly to the public... catch up in productivity with the EU-27 and start narrowing the difference that has been growing
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How the Croatian government helped spread of 'plandemic'
Agora- is rigged. In any case, all this was "cooked up" for us by some very powerful people in order... been springing up all over the world in recent years. These websites don’t employ journalists... of the public sought alternative explanations… All these moves ran up a tab that had to be paid in part
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Pandemic surge creates fresh political and economic doubts
PoliticsGreek Politicsthere are for their party to suffer wear-and-tear, and for the opposition to make up ground. New... a threat. She went on to argue that the prime minister had suggested that up to 70 pct of Greeks would.... The centre-left group also picked up on comments made this week by a member of the scientific committee
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Surge linked to Delta variant causes jitters about tourism, return to school
PoliticsGreek Politicssystem, where hospitalisations have been creeping up over recent days and now steadily surpass... on Mega TV that the ministry had approached universities to help set up vaccination centres on campuses... already set up a protocol for live attendance of practical classes, which will require the wearing
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PM relies on patchwork of measures to keep Covid at bay as jab uptake flags
PoliticsGreek Politicsentitled to hire temporary staff on short-term contracts to make up for the absence of suspended staff... against it. In the run-up to the vote, SYRIZA had criticised the government for ignoring... to sign up for the vaccine. Vaccination remains voluntary for teachers, despite earlier talk
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Wildfires rekindle longstanding political battle as heatwave forces agenda change
PoliticsGreek Politics– an image that New Democracy held up at the time as a sign of the then prime minister’s... another example of ND failing to live up to its promise to improve the efficiency of the state.... This summer may lead to a change in how high up the list climate action features as the parties look
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