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The Greek government is preparing a new program to encourage employment in mountainous, remote and harder-to-reach areas in the country by subsidizing 90% of the salary and social security contributions of registered unemployed people hired to work remotely for one year, Labor and Social Security Minister Niki Kerameos said on Friday.

Just 10.5 percent of the 706.3 billion won ($520 million) raised across a group of government-backed venture funds designed to nurture artificial intelligence and deep-tech startups into unicorns had been invested in companies by the end of June.