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State spending on research and development declined in Greece in 2023, bucking European trends, Eurostat data gleaned from the member-states' budgets and released Tuesday show.

When one considers spending per capita, Greece ranks quite low among EU states, although it outranks Lithuania, Poland, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Latvia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania.

Just four in every 10 Greeks (41.1 percent) aged from 55 to 64 years are active in the labor market, with the employment rate of men and women in this age group being the second lowest in the European Union, behind Luxembourg, according to statistics for 2018 released on Monday by Eurostat.

In a previous note, we discussed how the economic crisis of 2010-15 may have influenced long-term population and demographic developments in Greece. The arguments were guided by new data - updated projections through 2080 for population and the working-age population in Greece submitted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) to its European Union counterpart, Eurostat.

Bulgaria is among the countries of the European Union (EU) with the largest share of immigrants from third countries compared to the population and among those with the smallest share of people from EU countries. This shows data from the European Statistics Office Eurostat for 2015 on the occasion of the International Immigrants Day, which is celebrated on 18 December.

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reacted strongly to press reports suggesting that the country’s rule of law is in danger due to particular court decisions.

It all began in 2010, well before Kotzias became a minister, when the Athens Review of Books magazine published a letter of a reader calling Kotzias “a true gauleiter of Stalinism”.

The number of migrants who sought protection in Bulgaria between July and September bubbled to nearly half of all applicants, Eurostat data shows.

More than half of Bulgarians between 15 and 29 years of age live in inferior living conditions, showed an analysis of Eurostat, cited by BTA.

On the occasion of the International Day of Happiness on March 20, Eurostat published a selection of subjective indicators on the well-being of people in Europe.

This data on subjective evaluations and perceptions in different domains have been collected for the first time in a comparable way in European official statistics.