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What’s Up in Greece on Dec 17?
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix
A bit of Chistmas mood, maybe? Hardly. Christams bonuses haven’t been paid yet, and consumers take satisfaction with windos shopping. I had a look in upper Ermous street yesterday, the main shopping street of downtoan Athens. No pair of modern shoes for less than 150 euro. I think, I’ll go to Chrismas parties in my slippers this year…
Retailers are desperate and hope to be able to get some revenues during the Christmas season. For many shops it’s the last chance, otherwise there will be closed. In the last 12 months, 60 thousand shops closed down.
Equally grim is the situation in the tourism sector. Travel agents see a 30% decrease in internal tourism and 40% decrease in the foreign tourists.
The government is seeking to hire collection companies to get revenues from those unwilling or unable to pay their debts to the state. FinMin Evangelos Venizelos made it clear that outstanding state debts to private businesses will not be paid. The state owes some 7 billion euro.
A hired army of conselours and tac collectors … Many Greeks wonder what the civil servants do and how they spend their days while been paid from the taxpayers. They could also close the borders and have roboters make house-visits and squeeze the last cent from our pockets.
More and more Greeks say Goddboy to their beloved ones and migrate. Whether they want or not. The labour market has collapsed as the rest of the country. Recently 36.000 people applied for 750 work positions in Telecommunication company OTE. Almost 100,000 people have sibmitted their CVs in EUROPASS. In September alone, 13,000 sibmitted their CVs in the website that links jobless Europeans to employees. 63.5% of the job seekrs are younger than 30 years old. In comparison, in 2008, Cv’s submitted by Greeks are no more than 2.200.
Remebrs the former policeman who was caought for receiving social benefits for his 19 fictional children? Authorities have cought naother man for having received social benefits for 28 child labours! Weird enough, this fictional father of fictional children was receiving his benefits again from the same Labour Agency (OAED) branch, in Nikaia, suburb of Piraeus. HA!
There may be some problems for ferries and ships traffic due to extreme weather conditions.
Today shops will be open until 6 pm, and on Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm.
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What’s wrong with the pair you had on last year? Or is that a very ‘male’ question?
very maile and 120% off topic. A woman can not wear shoes out of fashion.
there is an OAED in Nikaia? why on earth was i told i had to go to moschato which involved a bus and a train when i could walk to nikaia? great way of thinking, you are unemployed you are not eligible for unemployment benefit but you must pay to go and sign in every month even if there is an office within walking distance. sorry about that KTG i went off on a tangent there. i dont really see any hope of things getting better soon. they are employing private tax collectors which means taxpayers are still paying for the civil tax collectors + the private company how is spending more helping the deficit?
maybe the OAED Nikaia is in … Mochato? (crazy Greek bureaucracy?) – Vassilis, I don’t see any hope neither.
Central banks in eurozone countries are making contingency plans for the possible collapse of the euro. Very interesting action to hire collection companies – like putting a band-aid over the hole in the dam and expecting it to fix the problem.
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i’m contemplating about commencing my quite own blog….