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What’s Up in Greece on Sept 29?

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix

Ups and Downs and protests are up in  Greece, with taxis on the second day of their 48-hour strike. The good news of the day is that there is no public transport strike and there won’t be any in the following days. PT workers will decide next Monday how to further proceed with possible protest actions.

The issue of “labour reserve” aiming to cut state expenditures has been blocked in the Cabinet meeting last night as two ministers could not agree on the criteria according to which the civil servants will go. Some spoke that the measure is against the Constitution that secures the eternal right of c.s. to work. However there is the door of  ‘laying off when the work places are cut’. It looks as if the government will leave the decisions to Troika.

The Troika is in Athens  to put a finger on Greece’s wounds. Thursday morning some low rank Troika technocrats could not enter the Finance ministry as the entrances have been blocked by protesting civil servants.

Civil servants’ big action of the day is blocking the Ministries. The slogan? “Block the Troika!” Currently the entrances of the ministries of Finance, Health, Interior, Justice and Agricultural development are ‘blocked’ by protesters. The action is scheduled to expand to other ministries as well. Protesters claim, they will continue their actions for 48 hours.

Public sector union ADEDY schedules a protest and a march towards the parliament in downtown Athens today at 6 pm.

State hospital doctors and health care personnel will be on work-stoppage from 11 am  to 4 pm.

Greek households are on the verge of a nervous breakdown, not only because of the taxes being announced every week, but also because of the frequent changes in the taxation system but also because now are asked to keep income/expeditures books and keep record even of the 50 euro a granny gives to her grandchildren. Living in the crazy-house called “Greece” is getting more and more surreal. I wouldn’t blame sincere tax-payers if they will start looking for ways to trick the taxation system…

Greek police is ‘hunting’ Makis Psomiadis. The owner of Kavala FC , fugitive for several months, was captured by anti-terror police on Sept. 15th, on charges on alleged “match-fixing”, fraud, bribery and illegal betting. three days after his detention he was  set free on ‘doubts’. Then some judges and the prosecutor decided there were no doubts on the charges and issued a new arrest warrant. However Psomiadis seems to have vanished in the healthy Greek air…

The Athens Stock Exchange started bad. Very bad! It lost -1.32% in the first ten minutes after starting of today’s session…

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