{"id":427259,"date":"2026-01-21T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427259\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:41:08","slug":"greece-posts-eus-largest-unemployment-drop-labor-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427259\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece posts EU\u2019s largest unemployment drop, labor minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kerameus-parliament-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Greece posts EU\u2019s largest unemployment drop, labor minister says\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/kerameus-parliament-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[InTime News]<\/p>\n<p>Greece is recording the largest reduction in unemployment ever achieved by a European Union member-state and the largest increase in employment among OECD countries, Labor Minister Niki Kerameus told ANT1 TV on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnemployment, when New Democracy took over, was about 18%. Today it is 10 percentage points lower. It is at 8%. This is the largest reduction in unemployment ever achieved in an EU member-state. This means that more than 500,000 of our fellow citizens who were not working in 2019 are working today,\u201d the minister stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[InTime News] Greece is recording the largest reduction in unemployment ever achieved by a European Union member-state and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-427259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-employment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}