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Unemployment at 16.8 pct in Aug as inactives rise by 2.9 pct YoY
EconomyMacroeconomythan three months or if they receive more than 50 percent of their salary, in line with Eurostat.... Particularly, response in urban areas had been lower than usual due to the pandemic. The latest... balance was positive with 38,529 more hirings than firings. Compared to the same month last year
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Extensive Covid-19 impact and slow recovery seen by most business sectors, research shows
EconomyMacroeconomyto reduce bad debts. More than 65 percent of companies have turned to support measures provided by the Greek... it less effective than working in the office. Only 5.9 percent of those surveyed believed that it was more efficient than working in person. The construction sector reported the highest level
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Greece persistently bottom of the list for EU gender equality
Societygender equality is much slower than the EU average. Greece has remained at the bottom of the index... that single women earned on average 10 percent less than men per month in 2018. In couples with children, women earn 22 percent less than men and 25 percent less where the couple has no children
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Unemployment rate at 16.1 pct in Sept
EconomyMacroeconomyconsidering layoffs as persons still employed if the duration of their contract suspension is less than three months or if they receive more than 50 percent of their salary. The data showed..., response in urban areas had been lower than usual due to the pandemic. The latest available data from
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Unemployment at 16.7 pct in October, unchanged from October 2019
EconomyMacroeconomysuspension is less than three months or if they receive more than 50 percent of their salary. The data.... Particularly, response in urban areas had been lower than usual due to the pandemic. The latest... was positive with 2,116 more hirings than firings during the month. Compared to the same month last year
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Budget primary shows deficit of 18.20 bln in 2020, total deficit at 22.81 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyto 5.24 billion euros which was 100 million euros higher than the monthly target. State budget net revenues came to 47.36 billion euros in 2020, as mentioned, 906 million euros or 2 percent above than... billion euros, higher than the target by 1.22 billion or 2.4 percent. The full revenue breakdown
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Some sad lessons the Western Balkans can learn from Bulgaria's EU Journey
Agorathan in 2009. The 2020 Rule of Law Index by the World Justice Project has given Bulgaria the worst.... There are more Bulgarians working abroad than in Bulgaria. Mass emigration has left key sectors barren — more than half of the doctors in Bulgaria are above 55 years old. The country has the highest death
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Eight years later: Is Croatia finally truly ready for Europe?
AgoraInternational, in terms of the corruption index, Croatia did worse than Rwanda in 2020. For two years... programming period of cohesion policy, so it is announced that it will get more money than other countries... that was more shocking than that was to hear Vukovar Mayor Ivan Penava – who should know best what
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Greece hopes beaches won't be empty again this summer, but vaccination numbers say otherwise
Agora. The strategy is functioning well so far By mid-February, there were more than 750 vaccination points...%. The uptake is higher among doctors than among nursing staff (77% and 51% respectively), leading... of the vaccination programme have attracted less scrutiny than they might merit. They include
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Greece falls behind on gender equality due to drop in political empowerment
Societywas closed in 2021, 0.6 percentage points less than in 2020, indicating that women were more adversely affected by the pandemic than men. However, the widening of the gender gap in Greece was not strongly... in over the past decade, fewer than a quarter of elected parliamentarians are women. According to gender
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