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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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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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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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