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Agoraof households per income during 2008-2012 showed the dramatic burden on household disposable income from.... According to ELSTAT, 19.5 percent of Greeks are severely materially deprived. This is by far... is one of the reasons that on the surface Greek society’s difficulties don’t seem too dramatic. In fact
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December fails to boost Greek retail sector: Sales fell by 6.7 pct
Economyby 6.1 percent as far as volume is concerned, according to data published by the Hellenic Statistical... percent below the 2005 base year. Within the main sectors, food saw an annual decrease of 6.8... declines ranging from 2.1 percent for books and stationery to 9.1 percent for supermarkets. Overall
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How Greece sleepwalked off a cliff in 2009, in black and white
Agoraof reason. A complicit media allowed figures ranging from the centre stage all the way to cult... elections that saw Karamanlis’s administration lose to George Papandreou’s PASOK in a landslide... compared to September 2008. Up to September, expenditure reached 54.16 billion euros, surpassing by far
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Domestic factors seen playing role in PM's pick for European Commission
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe conservatives a window to pass ambitious and far-ranging legislation virtually unchallenged.... criticism from sections of the opposition. Wednesday saw the passage of legislation by the Justice
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Kasselakis starts to open up as early polls show little impact on public opinion so far
PoliticsGreek Politicsleadership race as initial opinion polls indicate his victory has had little impact so far on voters’ views... unimpressed by Kasselakis’s victory, and the vision for the party he has presented so far. On the issue... follows on 28 pct, along with PASOK chief Nikos Androulakis. As far as voting intentions are concerned
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ND seeks ban on far-right party running in EP elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsa memorandum arguing that the far-right Spartiates (Spartans) grouping should be banned from... at the forefront of pushing for the far-right party to be excluded, ND is also aiming to steal a march on SYRIZA... itself as the true bulwark against the far right. This is a well-trodden path for the conservatives
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Greece is least socially just country in EU, report indicates
Societyin Greece as “downright dramatic” and suggest that the policies implemented over the last few years have... payment by submitting receipts to the patients’ social insurance funds. However, these funds saw... is at the bottom ranking with a youth unemployment rate of nearly 60 percent, a rapid increase
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Excess of vaccines in Serbia will go to waste
Agorais advancing at a snail’s pace and facing delays in vaccine deliveries. On March 6, when holding his dramatic... that the practice was stopped on the same day when they saw dozens of buses arriving with employees of public... of Health took advantage of their ranking on the global list to promote their campaign called
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Greek bank recapitalisation: The story so far and what lies ahead
Economydevelopment so far relate to the asset quality review (AQR) and the stress tests – both conducted.... The few details that have emerged so far mainly relate to the macro assumptions in the baseline
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Industrial turnover up by 17.4 pct in June for highest rise in year so far
EconomyMacroeconomyfor the year so far, and the highest since October 2017 when the reading came to 11.6 percent. The 12-month... months of negative readings. In the year so far, industry confidence has risen by 5.2 points.
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