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Greece's harsh social reality
Agorapublication of ELSTAT, Greeks seem to be much more reluctant to get married: weddings have dropped from a high... marriages of all durations, the most marked rise was in marriages of more than 10 years, where... from employment. In the same year, more than 1.1 million Greeks were living in low-work intensity
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Newsletter 92 - 14/10/2016
production by 4.6 percent, which accounts for around 21 percent of the total index that more than... the beginning of the year. The sale of passenger cars, which make up more than 83 percent of vehicle sales...’s lenders. Tsipras suggested the upcoming second programme review would be “less difficult” than
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Fires latest obstacle to coalition's momentum-building efforts
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan three days in the area of Kalamos, north of Athens. The Tsipras administration also said... greater than the 1,500 hectares Tsipras had suggested was affected when he visited the area on Wednesday. In fact, the SYRIZA leader highlighted that the level of damage was much less than in 2009
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Parliamentary inquiry to handle bribery claims as parties build differing narratives
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA debate lasting more than 20 hours ended early on Thursday with Parliament voting to set up... probed, will be sent back to the judiciary for further investigation rather than to a special court... imposed. He suggested, though, that this involved medical professionals rather than politicians. He
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Newsletter 152 -23/02/2018
by the end of the programme in August. The total figure is now seen at 16.4 billion euros rather than... politicians were bribed by the pharmaceutical giant. During a debate lasting more than 20 hours, New... that helped get it elected twice in 2015, which is to hold its predecessors accountable
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The tie that binds
Agorato reduce Greece’s debt, and then take it off again (so he could get back to work, the premier said..., unpaid taxes continue to pile up and have passed the 100-billion-euro mark, more than 20 percent... for the interest payments and amortisation of more than 95 billion euros lent to Greece as part
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New asylum law comes up against old failings
Agoraintegration into Dutch society. Asylum seekers who are likely to get a negative decision are usually... departures, rather than forced returns, which are seen as a last resort. In 2018, the Netherlands... for Migration (IOM). Also, fewer than 2,000 people have been returned under the terms of the EU-Turkey
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Newsletter 228 -15/11/2019
also paved the way for future cooperation in the energy sector, with Chinese firms invited to get..., a full 0.5 percent lower than the government’s 2020 budget target, and 2 percent for 2021, with long.... A breakdown of amounts owed showed that 79 percent of debtors owe less than 15,000 euros each
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Will the Covid-19 crisis undermine the EU Green Deal? A view from Europe's periphery
Agoraconsequences. We should however start to prepare the measures necessary to get back to a normal functioning... discourse and reality becomes more than obvious. Particularly on the funding front - absent a strong... are likely to undermine, rather than catalyze, the EU Green Deal particularly in the Eurozone’s southern
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Newsletter 313 - 22/10/2021
optimistic than initially thought. It seems that if the revenues continue to surprise positively, as they did in the latest budget data for September that beat the target by more than 900 million euros... cannot justify the scope of the investment and for 14 pct they cannot assess that the loans will get
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