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What’s Up in Greece on Dec 8?
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix
A bright shining sun is up in Greece today, while we are collapsing. Millions of Greeks, mostly pensioners and jobless, are uncertain as whether they will get their Christmas allowance as the insurance funds have run out of money and the 6th aid tranche has not arrived yet. This year, the Christmas bonuses will not be spent on presents and season parties. They will directly go to the state in form of taxes.
Greece’s biggest insurance fund IKA seeks more than €800 million and self-employed fund OAEE seeks €240 million to pay pensions and allowances by December 16th. Will the 8 billion euro aid arrive on Dec 14th? Hardly…. Therefore the insurance funds have started a race to find the needed amounts and avoid payment delays. They’d better do it on time. Otherwise I see thousands of angry pensioners protesting outside the Parliament.
The measure of ‘labour reserve’ seems to collapse as well. Twenty thousand civil servants were supposed to have been sent home with 60% of their income by November 28th. However the public administration managed to apply this measure only only to four thousand people. 12% of those are apparently civil servants who went to pension, while 8 out of 10 . Will the Troika accept this trick? Hardly…
Unemployment hit a new record. According to Greek Statistics Authority ELSTAT unemployment reached 17.5%in September. That is 5 units higher than in September 2010. Among youth, aged 15-24, the unemployment is 46% percent.
ELSTAT issued also the General Index in Industrial Production for October: a decease of -12.5%!
“Northern Greece Business Index 500″ (NGBI 500), recorded a very negative record for last November: 4 out of 10 businesses in Northern Greece plan to lay off personnel in the next time, while the number of those willing to hire is a big ZERO%.
Two men committed suicide within 48 hours in Prolemaida in North West Greece. The two men, 37 and 58, were in dire economic situation and had debts they could not pay back.
A teacher, 55, has been arrested in Athens for having set on fire cars and garbage bins, house gardens and public parks in the suburbs of Cholargos, Agia Paraskevi and Psichiko. So you have been victim of an arson attack, get in contact with the police.
In Brussels everybody gets ready for the historic EU Summit that will redefine the United -but Falling apart – Europe. For two days, Dec 8-9/2011, the leaders of 27 member countries will try to find a solution to the crisis together with technocrats and bankers from the IMF, the ECB and other esteemed organisations. The EU Summit will be under the influence of a very negative Lunar Eclipse. So, please, read KTG’s forecasts How Lunal Eclipse Affect the EU Summit, on this remarkable (pre)historic day that may change the lives of European citizens. Greeks’ lives have been changed already.
Joke of the Day: a new new circular was issued by the Finance Ministry on the ‘emergency property tax’. It declares that taxpayers will have to pay first and correct the mistakes in the bills later. It is the number I-Lost-Control of circulars issued on the disputed issue. The circulars are not worth the paper they are printed on as they keep repeating the same things. Maybe the comas, the semi-colons and the full-stops change position.
PS Is it true the EU citizens are considered as “annoying and undesirable” by the EU leaders?
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