Economy_of_Greece

context: Greece is a developed country with an economy based on the service (82.8%) and industrial sectors (13.3%). The agricultural sector contributed 3.9% of national economic output in 2015. Important Greek industries include tourism and shipping. With 18 million international tourists in 2013, Greece was the 7th most visited country in the European Union and 16th in the world. The Greek Merchant Navy is the largest in the world, with Greek-owned vessels accounting for 15% of global deadweight tonnage as of 2013. The increased demand for international maritime transportation between Greece and Asia has resulted in unprecedented investment in the shipping industry.
qas: answers: text: developed
question: What type of country is Greece?

answers: text: 82.8%
question: What percentage of Greece's economy is based on service?

answers: text: 13.3%
question: How much of Greece's economy is comprised of industrial sectors?

answers: text: 3.9%
question: How much of the national economic output did the agricultural sector of Greece contribute in 2015?

answers: text: 18 million
question: How many international tourists visited Greece in 2013?

context: The country is a significant agricultural producer within the EU. Greece has the largest economy in the Balkans and is as an important regional investor. Greece was the largest foreign investor in Albania in 2013, the third in Bulgaria, in the top-three in Romania and Serbia and the most important trading partner and largest foreign investor in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The Greek telecommunications company OTE has become a strong investor in former Yugoslavia and in other Balkan countries.
qas: answers: text: agricultural
question: What is Greece a significant producer of within the EU?

answers: text: economy
question: Greece has the largest what in the Balkans?

answers: text: Greece
question: What was Albania's largest foreign investor in 2013?

answers: text: Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
question: Who is Greece the most important trading partner to?

answers: text: OTE
question: What Greek telecommunications company has become a strong investor in former Yugoslavia?

context: Greece is classified as an advanced, high-income economy, and was a founding member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC). The country joined what is now the European Union in 1981. In 2001 Greece adopted the euro as its currency, replacing the Greek drachma at an exchange rate of 340.75 drachmae per euro. Greece is a member of the International Monetary Fund and of the World Trade Organization, and ranked 34th on Ernst & Young's Globalization Index 2011.
qas: answers: text: OECD
question: What organization was Greek a founding member?

answers: text: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
question: What does the abbreviation OECD expand to?

answers: text: advanced, high-income
question: What is Greece's economy classified as?

answers: text: 1981
question: When did Greece join what is now the European Union?

answers: text: 2001
question: When did Greece adopt the Euro as its currency?

context: World War II (1939-1945) devastated the country's economy, but the high levels of economic growth that followed from 1950 to 1980 have been called the Greek economic miracle. From 2000 Greece saw high levels of GDP growth above the Eurozone average, peaking at 5.8% in 2003 and 5.7% in 2006. The subsequent Great Recession and Greek government-debt crisis, a central focus of the wider European debt crisis, plunged the economy into a sharp downturn, with real GDP growth rates of −0.3% in 2008, −4.3% in 2009, −5.5% in 2010, −9.1% in 2011, −7.3% in 2012 and −3.2% in 2013. In 2011, the country's public debt reached €356 billion (172% of nominal GDP). After negotiating the biggest debt restructuring in history with the private sector, Greece reduced its sovereign debt burden to €280 billion (137% of GDP) in the first quarter of 2012. Greece achieved a real GDP growth rate of 0.7% in 2014 after 6 years of economic decline, but fell back into recession in 2015.
qas: answers: text: 1950 to 1980
question: What years of economic growth was called Greece's economic miracle?

answers: text: 2000
question: From what year was Greece's levels of GDP growth above the Eurozone average?

answers: text: −3.2%
question: What was the GDP growth rate of Greece in 2013?

answers: text: €356 billion
question: How much public debt did Greece have in 2011?

answers: text: 2015
question: What year did Greece fall back into recession?

context: The evolution of the Greek economy during the 19th century (a period that transformed a large part of the world because of the Industrial Revolution) has been little researched. Recent research from 2006 examines the gradual development of industry and further development of shipping in a predominantly agricultural economy, calculating an average rate of per capita GDP growth between 1833 and 1911 that was only slightly lower than that of the other Western European nations. Industrial activity, (including heavy industry like shipbuilding) was evident, mainly in Ermoupolis and Piraeus. Nonetheless, Greece faced economic hardships and defaulted on its external loans in 1826, 1843, 1860 and 1894.
qas: answers: text: Industrial Revolution
question: What transformed a large part of the world in the 19th century?

answers: text: evolution of the Greek economy
question: What does recent research from 2006 examine?

answers: text: slightly lower
question: What was Greece's GDP growth between 1833 and 1911 compared other Western European nations?

answers: text: shipbuilding
question: What type of industrial activity was evident in Greece in the period researched?

answers: text: defaulted on its external loans
question: What did Greece do in 1826, 1843, 1860 and 1894?

context: After fourteen consecutive years of economic growth, Greece went into recession in 2008. By the end of 2009, the Greek economy faced the highest budget deficit and government debt-to-GDP ratios in the EU. After several upward revisions, the 2009 budget deficit is now estimated at 15.7% of GDP. This, combined with rapidly rising debt levels (127.9% of GDP in 2009) led to a precipitous increase in borrowing costs, effectively shutting Greece out of the global financial markets and resulting in a severe economic crisis.
qas: answers: text: fourteen
question: How many years of consecutive growth had Greece had?

answers: text: in 2008
question: When did Greece go into recession?

answers: text: budget deficit
question: What did the Greek economy have the highest of at the end of 2009?

answers: text: 15.7%
question: What percentage of GDP was the budget deficit of Greece in 2009?

answers: text: severe economic
question: What type of crisis resulted from the budget deficit and rising debt levels of Greece?

context: Greece was accused of trying to cover up the extent of its massive budget deficit in the wake of the global financial crisis. The allegation was prompted by the massive revision of the 2009 budget deficit forecast by the new PASOK government elected in October 2009, from "6–8%" (estimated by the previous New Democracy government) to 12.7% (later revised to 15.7%). However, the accuracy of the revised figures has also been questioned, and in February 2012 the Hellenic Parliament voted in favor of an official investigation following accusations by a former member of the Hellenic Statistical Authority that the deficit had been artificially inflated in order to justify harsher austerity measures.
qas: answers: text: its massive budget deficit
question: What was Greece accused of covering up the extent of?

answers: text: massive revision
question: What prompted the allegation of Greece's covering up its budget deficit? 

answers: text: February 2012
question: When did the Parliament vote in favor of an investigation?

answers: text: Hellenic Parliament
question: Who voted in favor of an official investigation of the accusations?

answers: text: harsher austerity measures
question: What did a former member of the Hellenic Statistical Authority say the deficit had been inflated to justify?

context: Most of the differences in the revised budget deficit numbers were due to a temporary change of accounting practices by the new government, i.e., recording expenses when military material was ordered rather than received. However, it was the retroactive application of ESA95 methodology (applied since 2000) by Eurostat, that finally raised the reference year (1999) budget deficit to 3.38% of GDP, thus exceeding the 3% limit. This led to claims that Greece (similar claims have been made about other European countries like Italy) had not actually met all five accession criteria, and the common perception that Greece entered the Eurozone through "falsified" deficit numbers.
qas: answers: text: accounting practices
question: What were the majority of the differences in the revised budget due to the temporary changing of?

answers: text: 3.38% of GDP
question: What did retroactively applying the ESA95 methodology result in raising the budget deficit to?

answers: text: .38%
question: By how much did the budget deficit of Greece exceed the 3% limit in the reference year of 1999?

answers: text: Italy
question: What other European country were claims similar to those levied against Greece made?

answers: text: when military material was ordered rather than received
question: When were expenses recorded by the new government?

context: In the 2005 OECD report for Greece, it was clearly stated that "the impact of new accounting rules on the fiscal figures for the years 1997 to 1999 ranged from 0.7 to 1 percentage point of GDP; this retroactive change of methodology was responsible for the revised deficit exceeding 3% in 1999, the year of [Greece's] EMU membership qualification". The above led the Greek minister of finance to clarify that the 1999 budget deficit was below the prescribed 3% limit when calculated with the ESA79 methodology in force at the time of Greece's application, and thus the criteria had been met.
qas: answers: text: OECD
question: Who provided a report for Greece in 2005?

answers: text: 0.7 to 1 percentage point of GDP
question: What was the range of the impact of the new accounting rules on the Greek fiscal figures for the years 1997 to 1999?

answers: text: 1999
question: What was the year of Greece's EMU membership qualification?

answers: text: ESA79
question: What methodology was in force when Greece submitted its membership qualification?

answers: text: the prescribed 3% limit
question: What did the Greek minister of finance clarify the 1999 budget was below when calculated with the ESA79 methodology?

context: An error sometimes made is the confusion of discussion regarding Greece’s Eurozone entry with the controversy regarding usage of derivatives’ deals with U.S. Banks by Greece and other Eurozone countries to artificially reduce their reported budget deficits. A currency swap arranged with Goldman Sachs allowed Greece to "hide" 2.8 billion Euros of debt, however, this affected deficit values after 2001 (when Greece had already been admitted into the Eurozone) and is not related to Greece’s Eurozone entry.
qas: answers: text: controversy regarding usage of derivatives’ deals
question: What error is sometimes made by tying Greece's Eurozone entry with?

answers: text: U.S. Banks
question: What banks did Greece use derivatives' deals with?

answers: text: artificially reduce their reported budget deficits
question: What was the result of the deals with the U.S. banks?

answers: text: 2.8 billion
question: How many Euros was Greece able to "hide" because of an arrangement with Goldman Sachs?

answers: text: affected deficit values after 2001
question: Why aren't the deficit values affected by the currency swap with Goldman Sachs relevant to Greece's Eurozone entry?

context: According to Der Spiegel, credits given to European governments were disguised as "swaps" and consequently did not get registered as debt because Eurostat at the time ignored statistics involving financial derivatives. A German derivatives dealer had commented to Der Spiegel that "The Maastricht rules can be circumvented quite legally through swaps," and "In previous years, Italy used a similar trick to mask its true debt with the help of a different US bank." These conditions had enabled Greek as well as many other European governments to spend beyond their means, while meeting the deficit targets of the European Union and the monetary union guidelines. In May 2010, the Greek government deficit was again revised and estimated to be 13.6% which was the second highest in the world relative to GDP with Iceland in first place at 15.7% and Great Britain third with 12.6%. Public debt was forecast, according to some estimates, to hit 120% of GDP during 2010.
qas: answers: text: swaps
question: What were credits given to European governments disguised as?

answers: text: ignored statistics involving financial derivatives
question: Why weren't swaps registered as debts by Eurostat at the time?

answers: text: Maastricht
question: What rules did a German derivatives dealer say could be quite legally circumvented through swaps?

answers: text: Greek government deficit
question: What was again revised in May of 2010?

answers: text: 120%
question: What was Greece's public debt forecast to hit as high of a percentage of GDP of in 2010?

context: As a consequence, there was a crisis in international confidence in Greece's ability to repay its sovereign debt, as reflected by the rise of the country's borrowing rates (although their slow rise – the 10-year government bond yield only exceeded 7% in April 2010 – coinciding with a large number of negative articles, has led to arguments about the role of international news media in the evolution of the crisis). In order to avert a default (as high borrowing rates effectively prohibited access to the markets), in May 2010 the other Eurozone countries, and the IMF, agreed to a "rescue package" which involved giving Greece an immediate €45 billion in bail-out loans, with more funds to follow, totaling €110 billion. In order to secure the funding, Greece was required to adopt harsh austerity measures to bring its deficit under control. Their implementation will be monitored and evaluated by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF.
qas: answers: text: rise of the country's borrowing rates
question: What was a consequence of the doubt that Greece could pay it's debts?

answers: text: sovereign debt
question: What did the international banks have doubts about Greece's ability to repay?

answers: text: €45 billion in bail-out loans
question: How much money did the IMF and other Eurozone countries agree to give Greece in 2010?

answers: text: €110 billion
question: What was the total amount of the rescue package given to Greece?

answers: text: the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF
question: What organizations are keeping a watchful eye on how Greece is implementing austerity measures?

context: Between 2005 and 2011, Greece has had the highest percentage increase in industrial output compared to 2005 levels out of all European Union members, with an increase of 6%. Eurostat statistics show that the industrial sector was hit by the Greek financial crisis throughout 2009 and 2010, with domestic output decreasing by 5.8% and industrial production in general by 13.4%. Currently, Greece is ranked third in the European Union in the production of marble (over 920,000 tons), after Italy and Spain.
qas: answers: text: industrial output
question: What did Greece have the highest percentage increase in between 2005 and 2011?

answers: text: 6%
question: What was the increase of Greece's industrial output between 2005 and 2011?

answers: text: 13.4%.
question: What did the industrial production in Greece fall by due to the financial crisis?

answers: text: third
question: What is Greece ranked in the EU in the production of marble?

answers: text: 920,000 tons
question: How many tons of marble does Greece produce?

context: Greece has the largest merchant navy in the world, accounting for more than 15% of the world's total deadweight tonnage (dwt) according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. The Greek merchant navy's total dwt of nearly 245 million is comparable only to Japan's, which is ranked second with almost 224 million. Additionally, Greece represents 39.52% of all of the European Union's dwt. However, today's fleet roster is smaller than an all-time high of 5,000 ships in the late 1970s.
qas: answers: text: merchant navy
question: What does Greece have the largest of in the world?

answers: text: 15%
question: Greece's navy accounts for more than what percentage of the world's total deadweight tonnage?

answers: text: 245 million
question: What is the Greek merchant navy's total dwt?

answers: text: 39.52%
question: What percentage of the entire EU's dwt does Greece alone represent?

answers: text: 5,000
question: How many ships did Greece's navy have in the late 1970s?

context: In terms of ship categories, Greek companies have 22.6% of the world's tankers and 16.1% of the world's bulk carriers (in dwt). An additional equivalent of 27.45% of the world's tanker dwt is on order, with another 12.7% of bulk carriers also on order. Shipping accounts for an estimated 6% of Greek GDP, employs about 160,000 people (4% of the workforce), and represents 1/3 of the country's trade deficit. Earnings from shipping amounted to €14.1 billion in 2011, while between 2000 and 2010 Greek shipping contributed a total of €140 billion (half of the country's public debt in 2009 and 3.5 times the receipts from the European Union in the period 2000–2013). The 2011 ECSA report showed that there are approximately 750 Greek shipping companies in operation.
qas: answers: text: 22.6%
question: How many of the world's tankers do Greek companies own?

answers: text: 16.1%
question: What percentage of the world's bulk carriers are Greece's?

answers: text: 6%
question: What percentage of Greece's GDP does shipping account for?

answers: text: €14.1 billion
question: What did earnings from Greece's shipping amount to in 2011?

answers: text: 750
question: How many Greek shipping companies were in operation in 2011?

context: Counting shipping as quasi-exports and in terms of monetary value, Greece ranked 4th globally in 2011 having "exported" shipping services worth 17,704.132 million $; only Denmark, Germany and South Korea ranked higher during that year. Similarly counting shipping services provided to Greece by other countries as quasi-imports and the difference between "exports" and "imports" as a "trade balance", Greece in 2011 ranked in the latter second behind Germany, having "imported" shipping services worth 7,076.605 million US$ and having run a "trade surplus" of 10,712.342 million US$.
qas: answers: text: 4th
question: When counting shipping as quasi-exports and in terms of monetary value, what is Greece's global rank?

answers: text: 17,704.132 million $
question: What was the worth Greece's shipping services in 2011?

answers: text: Denmark, Germany and South Korea
question: What three countries were ahead of Greece in 2011 with exports?

answers: text: 7,076.605 million US$
question: What was the shipping services imported by Greece in 2011 worth?

answers: text: 10,712.342 million US$
question: What was Greece's 2011 trade surplus?

context: Between 1949 and the 1980s, telephone communications in Greece were a state monopoly by the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization, better known by its acronym, OTE. Despite the liberalization of telephone communications in the country in the 1980s, OTE still dominates the Greek market in its field and has emerged as one of the largest telecommunications companies in Southeast Europe. Since 2011, the company's major shareholder is Deutsche Telekom with a 40% stake, while the Greek state continues to own 10% of the company's shares. OTE owns several subsidiaries across the Balkans, including Cosmote, Greece's top mobile telecommunications provider, Cosmote Romania and Albanian Mobile Communications.
qas: answers: text: state
question: Who ran the phones in Greece between 1949 and the 1980s?

answers: text: OTE
question: What was the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization better known by the acronym of?

answers: text: 1980s
question: When did the liberalization of the telephone communications in Greece happen?

answers: text: Deutsche Telekom
question: What company has a 40% stake in OTE?

answers: text: 10%
question: How many shares of OTE does the Greek state own?

context: Greece has tended to lag behind its European Union partners in terms of Internet use, with the gap closing rapidly in recent years. The percentage of households with access to the Internet more than doubled between 2006 and 2013, from 23% to 56% respectively (compared with an EU average of 49% and 79%). At the same time, there has been a massive increase in the proportion of households with a broadband connection, from 4% in 2006 to 55% in 2013 (compared with an EU average of 30% and 76%). However, Greece also has the EU's third highest percentage of people who have never used the Internet: 36% in 2013, down from 65% in 2006 (compared with an EU average of 21% and 42%).
qas: answers: text: Internet
question: What does Greece lag behind other EU countries in terms of use?

answers: text: more than doubled
question: How much did the percentage of households with access to the internet increase between 2006 and 2013?

answers: text: 36%
question: What percentage of people in Greece had never used the Internet as of 2013?

answers: text: Greece
question: Who has the EU's third highest percentage of people who've never used the Internet?

answers: text: a broadband connection
question: What has the been a massive increase in the number of households with in Greece?

context: Greece attracts more than 16 million tourists each year, thus contributing 18.2% to the nation's GDP in 2008 according to an OECD report. The same survey showed that the average tourist expenditure while in Greece was $1,073, ranking Greece 10th in the world. The number of jobs directly or indirectly related to the tourism sector were 840,000 in 2008 and represented 19% of the country's total labor force. In 2009, Greece welcomed over 19.3 million tourists, a major increase from the 17.7 million tourists the country welcomed in 2008.
qas: answers: text: more than 16 million
question: How many millions of tourists does Greece attract each year?

answers: text: 18.2%
question: What part of Greece's GDP is accounted for by tourism?

answers: text: $1,073
question: What did the 2008 OECD report show the average tourist expenditure while in Greece was?

answers: text: 840,000
question: How many jobs in 2008 in Greece were somehow related to the tourism industry?

answers: text: over 19.3 million
question: How many tourists did Greece welcome in 2009?

context: In recent years a number of well-known tourism-related organizations have placed Greek destinations in the top of their lists. In 2009 Lonely Planet ranked Thessaloniki, the country's second-largest city, the world's fifth best "Ultimate Party Town", alongside cities such as Montreal and Dubai, while in 2011 the island of Santorini was voted as the best island in the world by Travel + Leisure. The neighbouring island of Mykonos was ranked as the 5th best island Europe. Thessaloniki was the European Youth Capital in 2014.
qas: answers: text: their lists
question: What have a number of tourism-related organizations placed Greek destinations at the top of?

answers: text: Thessaloniki
question: What Greek city was rated the world's fifth best ultimate party town by 2009's Lonely Planet?

answers: text: the country's second-largest city
question: What distinction does the city of Thessaloniki have in regards to size in Greece?

answers: text: best island in the world
question: What did Travel+Leisure vote the island of Santorini as in 2011?

answers: text: Mykonos
question: What island was ranked as the 5th best in Europe?

context: Between 1975 and 2009, Olympic Airways (known after 2003 as Olympic Airlines) was the country’s state-owned flag carrier, but financial problems led to its privatization and relaunch as Olympic Air in 2009. Both Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air have won awards for their services; in 2009 and 2011, Aegean Airlines was awarded the "Best regional airline in Europe" award by Skytrax, and also has two gold and one silver awards by the ERA, while Olympic Air holds one silver ERA award for "Airline of the Year" as well as a "Condé Nast Traveller 2011 Readers Choice Awards: Top Domestic Airline" award.
qas: answers: text: Olympic Airlines
question: What was Olympic Airways known as after 2003?

answers: text: Olympic Air
question: What was Olympic Airlines relaunched as in 2009?

answers: text: Aegean Airlines
question: What airlines was award the "Best regional airline in Europe" award by Skytrax?

answers: text: "Airline of the Year"
question: What does Olympic Air hold a silver ERA award for?

answers: text: 2011
question: What year did Olympic Air receive an award as Top Domestic Airline?

context: Greece's rail network is estimated to be at 2,548 km. Rail transport in Greece is operated by TrainOSE, a subsidiary of the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE). Most of the country's network is standard gauge (1,565 km), while the country also has 983 km of narrow gauge. A total of 764 km of rail are electrified. Greece has rail connections with Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia and Turkey. A total of three suburban railway systems (Proastiakos) are in operation (in Athens, Thessaloniki and Patras), while one metro system is operational in Athens with another under construction.
qas: answers: text: 2,548 km
question: How long is Greek's rail network estimated to run?

answers: text: TrainOSE
question: Who runs the rail transport in Greece?

answers: text: the Hellenic Railways Organization
question: Who is TrainOSE a subsidiary of?

answers: text: standard gauge
question: What gauge is most of Greece's railway?

answers: text: 764
question: How many kilometers of Greece's railway is electrified?

context: According to Eurostat, Greece's largest port by tons of goods transported in 2010 is the port of Aghioi Theodoroi, with 17.38 million tons. The Port of Thessaloniki comes second with 15.8 million tons, followed by the Port of Piraeus, with 13.2 million tons, and the port of Eleusis, with 12.37 million tons. The total number of goods transported through Greece in 2010 amounted to 124.38 million tons, a considerable drop from the 164.3 million tons transported through the country in 2007. Since then, Piraeus has grown to become the Mediterranean's third-largest port thanks to heavy investment by Chinese logistics giant COSCO. In 2013, Piraeus was declared the fastest-growing port in the world.
qas: answers: text: Aghioi Theodoroi
question: What was Greece's largest port as measured by good transported in 2010?

answers: text: 17.38
question: How many million of tons went through Aghioi Theodoroi in 2010?

answers: text: 12.37 million tons
question: How many million tons of goods did port Eleusis transport in 2010?

answers: text: 164.3 million tons
question: How many tons of goods were transported through Greece in 2007?

answers: text: fastest-growing port in the world
question: What was the port of Piraeus declared to be in 2013?

context: In 2010 Piraeus handled 513,319 TEUs, followed by Thessaloniki, which handled 273,282 TEUs. In the same year, 83.9 million people passed through Greece's ports, 12.7 million through the port of Paloukia in Salamis, another 12.7 through the port of Perama, 9.5 million through Piraeus and 2.7 million through Igoumenitsa. In 2013, Piraeus handled a record 3.16 million TEUs, the third-largest figure in the Mediterranean, of which 2.52 million were transported through Pier II, owned by COSCO and 644,000 were transported through Pier I, owned by the Greek state.
qas: answers: text: 513,319
question: How many TEUs did Piraeus handle in 2010?

answers: text: 273,282
question: What amount of TEUs did Thessaloniki handle in 2010?

answers: text: 83.9 million
question: How many million of people passed through Greece's ports in 2010?

answers: text: 3.16 million
question: What record amount of TEUs did Piraeus handle in 2013?

answers: text: COSCO
question: What organization owns Pier II in Piraeus? 

context: Energy production in Greece is dominated by the Public Power Corporation (known mostly by its acronym ΔΕΗ, or in English DEI). In 2009 DEI supplied for 85.6% of all energy demand in Greece, while the number fell to 77.3% in 2010. Almost half (48%) of DEI's power output is generated using lignite, a drop from the 51.6% in 2009. Another 12% comes from Hydroelectric power plants and another 20% from natural gas. Between 2009 and 2010, independent companies' energy production increased by 56%, from 2,709 Gigawatt hour in 2009 to 4,232 GWh in 2010.
qas: answers: text: Public Power Corporation
question: Who dominates energy production in Greece?

answers: text: 85.6%
question: How much of all of Greece's energy demand was supplied by DEI in 2009?

answers: text: lignite
question: What is almost half of DEI's power output generated by the use of?

answers: text: 20%
question: How much of DEI's energy output is from natural gas?

answers: text: 56%
question: What percentage did independent companies' energy production increase between 2009 and 2010?

context: In 2008 renewable energy accounted for 8% of the country's total energy consumption, a rise from the 7.2% it accounted for in 2006, but still below the EU average of 10% in 2008. 10% of the country's renewable energy comes from solar power, while most comes from biomass and waste recycling. In line with the European Commission's Directive on Renewable Energy, Greece aims to get 18% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. In 2013 and for several months, Greece produced more than 20% of its electricity from renewable energy sources and hydroelectric power plants. Greece currently does not have any nuclear power plants in operation, however in 2009 the Academy of Athens suggested that research in the possibility of Greek nuclear power plants begin.
qas: answers: text: 8%
question: How much of Greece's energy consumption came from renewable sources in 2008?

answers: text: 10%
question: What was EU average amount of energy from renewable sources in 2008?

answers: text: biomass and waste recycling
question: Where does most of Greece's renewable energy come from?

answers: text: 18%
question: How much of Greece's energy is targeted to be from renewable sources by 2020?

answers: text: Academy of Athens
question: Who suggested research into the possibility of a Greek nuclear power plant should begin?

context: In addition to the above, Greece is also to start oil and gas exploration in other locations in the Ionian Sea, as well as the Libyan Sea, within the Greek exclusive economic zone, south of Crete. The Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Climate Change announced that there was interest from various countries (including Norway and the United States) in exploration, and the first results regarding the amount of oil and gas in these locations were expected in the summer of 2012. In November 2012, a report published by Deutsche Bank estimated the value of natural gas reserves south of Crete at €427 billion.
qas: answers: text: oil and gas
question: What is Greece set to start exploring the Ionian Sea for?

answers: text: Norway and the United States
question: What countries have expressed interest in Greece's oil and gas exploration?

answers: text: summer of 2012
question: When were the first results of the energy explorations expected?

answers: text: November 2012
question: When did the Deutsche Bank publish a report on the findings of the value of the reserves south of Crete?

answers: text: €427 billion
question: What did the Deutsche Bank estimate the value of the reserves to be at?

context: Between 1832 and 2002 the currency of Greece was the drachma. After signing the Maastricht Treaty, Greece applied to join the eurozone. The two main convergence criteria were a maximum budget deficit of 3% of GDP and a declining public debt if it stood above 60% of GDP. Greece met the criteria as shown in its 1999 annual public account. On 1 January 2001, Greece joined the eurozone, with the adoption of the euro at the fixed exchange rate ₯340.75 to €1. However, in 2001 the euro only existed electronically, so the physical exchange from drachma to euro only took place on 1 January 2002. This was followed by a ten-year period for eligible exchange of drachma to euro, which ended on 1 March 2012.
qas: answers: text: drachma
question: What was the currency of Greece until 2002?

answers: text: Maastricht Treaty
question: What did Greece sign to apply to join the eurozone?

answers: text: two
question: How many convergence criteria were there in the treaty?

answers: text: January 2002
question: When did the physical exchange of the drachma to euro take place?

answers: text: March 2012
question: When did the ten-year period for eligible exchange of the drachma to euro end?

context: IMF's forecast said that Greece's unemployment rate would hit the highest 14.8 percent in 2012 and decrease to 14.1 in 2014.  But in fact, the Greek economy suffered a prolonged high unemployemnt. The unemployment figure was between 9 per cent and 11 per cent in 2009, and it soared to 28 per cent in 2013. In 2015, Greece's jobless rate is around 24 per cent. It is thought that Greece's potential output has been eroded by this prolonged massive unemployment due to the associated hysteresis effects.
qas: answers: text: 14.8 percent
question: What did IMF forecast Greece's unemployment rate to be in 2012?

answers: text: 9 per cent and 11 per cent
question: What was Greece's unemployment rate between in 2009?

answers: text: 28 per cent
question: What did Greece's unemployment rate soar to in 2013?

answers: text: 24 per cent
question: What was Greece's jobless rate in 2015?

answers: text: prolonged massive unemployment
question: What is thought to have eroded Greece's potential output?