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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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Newsletter 285 - 19/02/2021
capital for more than a decade. This, along with other snow-related problems, triggered an attack... wildfire in 2018, which resulted in the deaths of more than 100 people. At the time, New Democracy... to the heaviest snowfall seen in the Greek capital for more than a decade. SYRIZA’s efforts
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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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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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