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What’s Up in Greece on Jan 3/12?

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix

A political-economic-justice turmoil is up in Greece as the two prosecutors who recently resigned from the judicial task force and their allegations were filed, hit back. Grigoris Peponis and Spyros Mouzakitis insist that the names of those who put them under pressure are at the disposal of Justice. At the same time, FinMin Venizelos ordered the resignation of general secretary of Tax and Customs issues after Peponis prosecuted Yiannis Kapeleris to the degree of felony degree in the offence of not collecting fines imposed on fuel smugglers. The damage for the state amount than 15 million euro.

280,000 civil servants will see more cuts in their income as several benefits will be simply… deleted.

Several pensioners’ associations appealed at the Administrative Court against their pension cuts. However it is not the low pensioners of private sector but mostly pensioners of public sector and thus those under 55 years old who suffered cuts of 40%, for retirement money over 1,000 euro.

In contrast, some low pensioners of the private sector still try to find a job even at the age of 70 or 75 years old, as the pension cuts and the multiple emergency taxes, make living for them impossible. I saw a very informative report on this issue, last night at Alpha TV.

The prosecutor in the island of Rhodes recovered dusty files of 36 case of wildfires that occurred during 1995-1997. The time period for which ex Turkish PM Mesut Yilmaz claimed that the Turkish secret service was behind several arson in Greece.

Former PM George Papandreou underwent a surgery to have remove a small cyst from his cheek. The cyst has been sent for biochemical analysis.

Greece invited investors to bid to explore for, and then exploit, hydrocarbon reserves in three blocks, two of which are offshore and one onshore. The three blocks, Patraikos Gulf and Katakolo, located off the western coast, and Ioanninain the northwest of the mainland, are estimated to hold oil reserves of around 250 million barrels. The bids can be submitted until July 2nd 2012. (Bloomberg)

Greek State managed to sell four Airbuses from Olympic Airways for the price of just 31 million euro. That is 170 million less than their original worth. The four airplanes were parked and forgotten for four years…. [Greece is "large" and generous with public property...]

The Metropolit of Piraeus made an appeal to the Administrative Court in order to prohibit the building of a Mosque at Elaionas area.

Thieves made the big catch in Irakleio, Crete. They stole religious offerings worth 300,000 EUR from the Monastery of Agia Irini Chryssovalantou on the New Year’s Eve.

The General Index of Athens Stock Exchange fell below 670 points.

Thank God, we have a sunny and not so chilly day….