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The unbearably slow vaccination process in Croatia
Agorathat in Croatia, according to the Government's vaccination plan published in December, there are more than... vaccination are "significantly less delivery of vaccines than promised" because "all manufacturers failed... of the EU (11.3%), but also countries such as Spain, Portugal or Greece have vaccinated more than 7
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Set-to in Ankara well received in Athens, where Covid-19 data causes worry
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe foreign minister about his Ankara trip. SYRIZA suggested that rather than “responding... at 9,239. Also, the number of intubated patients rose to 819 as more than 3,800 new cases were reported... to such plans. Although the vaccination programme is moving ahead at a faster clip than last month
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The virus may be slowing, but fake news is still rampant
Agoraspread faster than the virus itself. This type of news knew no borders, nor did they distinguish age... with the virus was overestimated, because they thought the virus was much less dangerous than...% of respondents believed that the number of infected people in Kosovo is much higher than reported
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Labour compensation and productivity in the EU-27 and Greece
Agora, there is a large premium on working for the private sector, rather than for the government. The EU economy... salaries in the 2000s than the private sector (average of around 25 euros per hour, versus 20 euros... sector attracts more employees than the public sector. Indeed, if one takes job stability
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Unemployment drops to 15.9 pct in May, inactive figure also eases to 3.23 mln
EconomyMacroeconomyby more than 168,000 people month-on-month. Year-on-year, the number of employed increased significantly... employed if the duration of their absence was less than three months and they continued to receive.... The inactive population is more than 3 million people, at 3.23 million, is broadly in line with last year
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Politicians have commissioned, and largely ignored, multiple reports on wildfires
SocietyDemocracy came to power promising to deliver a more competent government than its predecessor, having..., and of focussing almost exclusively on evacuations rather than getting the fires under control. By the end... unheeded. More than a decade later, the Goldammer report reiterated that call even more strongly
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Stock taking: Where is the Greek economy now?
Agoralong-run visibility is needed. Productivity: We have spent no less than 4 out of 7 previous blogs..., for now, these projections to be too optimistic. Potential growth in Greece is likely to be less than... productivity by hiring people at a faster pace than they contribute to output (this happens
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Newsletter 308 - 17/09/2021
to grow by 5.9 pct rather than the previous forecast of 3.6 pct. Mitsotakis focussed mostly... than 39 pct of the vote through the awarding of bonus seats. Mitsotakis will want to remain in office... but is levied against public sector employees and pensioners earning more than 12,000 euros per year
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Tsipras looks for fresh start as Mitsotakis holds election cards
PoliticsGreek Politicscontest sooner rather than later. In this context, his main aims appeared to recast himself as on older, wiser and more moderate politician than in the past and to present his party as being more concerned about the social and economic welfare of the average Greek than the ruling conservatives. Like
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The quarterly national accounts from the income side
Agorathan for many EU partner countries, which are close to, but not yet above, the level of their output...) must give the same result—an economy cannot absorb (demand) more than is produced (supply; inventory... profits (Figure 1b) in Greece have been higher than in the euro-zone countries: around 54 percent
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