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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-06-09
CONTENTS
[01] Large number of undocumented migrants rescued in the last 24 hours
[02] Greek economy shrank 0.2 pct in Q1
[01] Large number of undocumented migrants rescued in the last 24 hours
Coast Guard rescued 457 undocumented migrants in the last 24 hours in
12 separate incidents in the eastern Aegean.
According to the port authorities, the incidents were recorded near the
islands of Lesvos, Chios, Kalymnos and Kos.
[02] Greek economy shrank 0.2 pct in Q1
ANA/MPA---The Greek economy shrank by 0.2 pct in the first quarter
of 2015, in contrast with the Eurozone and the EU-28 which grew by
0.4 pct in the January-March period, Eurostat said on Tuesday. In a
report released here, the EU executive's statistics office said that
based on revised figures, the Eurozone and the EU-28 GDP grew 0.4 pct
in the first quarter compared with the fourth quarter of 2014, based on
a 0.4 pct increase in household consumption. On a year-on-year basis,
the GDP grew 1.0 pct in the Eurozone and 1.5 pct in the EU-28.
The Czech economy recorded the highest GDP growth rate in the first
quarter (3.1 pct), followed by Cyprus and Romania (1.6 pct each), Poland
(1.0 pct) and Bulgaria and Spain (0.9 pct each). On the other hand,
Lithuania (-0.6 pct), Estonia (-0.3 pct), Greece (-0.2 pct) and Finland
(-0.1 pct) recorded negative growth rates.
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