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Podcast - Days of wine and roses ahead for Greek economy?
Agorawith Markus Stolz, a German based in Athens who has been making a success of exporting local products... Greek grape varieties popular abroad. He also explains why Covid-19 has not put the brakes on his
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Unemployment at 16.2 pct in Q4
EconomyMacroeconomyon Wednesday. The jobless rate has declined by 0.6 percentage points (pps) from the Q4 2019 figure of 16.8... employment has decreased by 5.7 percent in comparison with Q3 and by 18.1 percent versus Q4 2019. Temporary
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Tales from the Region #4
Agoraimmunization has not commenced due to the limited quantities of vaccines that have arrived in the past period. Vaccination of health workers who are at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19 has begun
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Retail turnover drops by 5 pct and volume by 3 pct in January
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s retail sales index decreased by 5 percent in January following a revised drop of 12.8 percent in December, Hellenic Statistical Authority data showed on Wednesday. The index has now dropped... to the same month last year, consumer confidence has dropped by 23 points. Retail trade improved by 8.8
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Amid virus gloom, govt lines up support for catering and targets swift upturn
PoliticsGreek Politicsto 755, while another 561 more people were admitted to the hospital. There has been no let-up... businesses are facing huge debts and there has not yet been any discussion about writing off some of what
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Parties square up for all-out battle over upcoming labour bill
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government touts as a modernising reform for the benefit of both workers and employers, has... to the right to strike. Greece’s largest union confederation GSEE has called a strike for May 4, warning
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Podcast - The heavy arm of the law: Police brutality in Greece
AgoraThe behaviour of the Greek police has come under scrutiny, again, following a number of incidents over which officers have been accused of using unnecessary and excessive force. In this episode, we... demonstrations. Finally, Pavlos Eleftheriadis, a professor of Public Law at Oxford University who has also
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FM explains verbal clash in Ankara but broader strategy remains unclear
PoliticsForeign Policy”, showing that Athens has no reasons to be on the defensive against Turkish claims; but mostly it resonated... and approach,” he said but Dendias also expressed an assertion that despite what has happened, his visit
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Mitsotakis attempts to clarify plans for post-Easter reopening
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter several weeks of speculation, the Greek government has given more clarity on its plans for reopening the economy and travel, with the aim of what the prime minister described as “a summer... vaccines. Uptake of the AstraZeneca vaccine has been slow as a result of concern among the public about
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Newsletter 294 - 23/04/2021
, even though it has so far fallen slightly short of the target it set for this month, which... lead the government still enjoys over its rivals. SYRIZA’s focus this week has largely been
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