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Posts on October 2021
Awaiting the magic wand that will end the pandemic
At the hospital, we meet 53-year-old patient Aleksandar. He openly told the camera that they discovered large clots in his lungs and that now the doctors are not letting him out of bed in the respiratory department. Prior to this, he says, he had no health problems. Despite everything he has gone through and the long recovery that awaits him, he smilingly said he still will not get the vaccine.
Contributor: Ivor Fuka
Categories: Europe (276), Politics (364), Society (131)
Podcast - Planes, frigates and assistance clauses
Greece has recently signed two major defence deals, one with France and another with the USA. On this episode, Nick Malkoutzis and Phoebe Fronista examine the significance and implications of these agreements.
Contributor: Agora Podcast
Categories: Europe (276), Politics (364), Greece (466)
Government and citizens in Montenegro: Turning a deaf ear to warnings, measures and responsibility
The decisions made by the former government were, as it turned out, poor. The responsibility of the new government is best illustrated by the fact that its representatives do not care about the recommendations they make themselves. Citizens, as usual, pay the price.
Contributor: Andrea Jelić
Categories: Europe (276), Politics (364), Society (131)
Serbia’s road to collective immunity: A tale of two realities
The enthusiasm in the first months of this year regarding the mass vaccination in Serbia was so high that in March, the country was ranked highest in Europe in terms of the number of fully vaccinated people per million inhabitants. Eight months later, less than half of the total population has been vaccinated, and Serbia is once again ranking highest in Europe, but also fourth in the world! - this time, unfortunately, in terms of the number of new cases of Covid-19 per million inhabitants.
Contributor: Denis Kolundzija
Categories: Europe (276), Politics (364), Society (131)
First-wave champion Greece stumbles at vaccine roll-out
It is perhaps because of the euphoria brought by tourism – both the ability of Greeks themselves to enjoy a holiday, and the positive impact on the national economy - that the general public has been willing to tolerate daily case numbers averaging between 2,000 and 3,000 throughout the summer, and double-digit daily fatalities climbing above 40 going into September, which experts have taken to describing as “a busload of people going off a cliff every day”.
Contributor: Georgia Nakou
Categories: Europe (276), Politics (364), Society (131), Greece (466)