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tagged: ASE, bob traa, Greece, Greek media work stoppage, IMF private sector, january 24 2012, MoU, pharmacies, what's up in greeceWhat’s Up in Greece on Jan 24/12?
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix
Nothing is up in Greece today, everything is down, especially our mood as the Troika pressures for incredible labor interventions in the private sector. Bob Traa, IMF’sresponsible for Greece, says it very clear. In his proposal report, he claims that employees need to become “cheaper” and “disposable” in order to increase competitiveness and to provide economic development. There must be a real paradox growing in Bob Traa’s electrocuted brain. How do you boost economic development when people can hardly cover their basic needs? Easy. You crack down small and medium enterprises and have foreign investors and conglomerates take control of a country’s economy.
I must stress here, that Bob Traa & Co have an easy field to play their soccer games. First because Greek governments do nothing or very little to change cut state expenditures and second because ministers seem to be too busy to be involved in agreements that enslave this country’s citizens for decades. One for All and All for One? Not at all! Taxpayers for All as the only part of MoU that has been implemented is the chapter with title “Raise Taxes”..
While owners of properties built illegally had been forced to pay fat penalties amounting several thousands of euro to legalize them, the public sector will be exempted from these fines. Oh yes! Even the Greek state has built illegally.
Development Minister Michalis Chryssochoidis admitted that he did not read the Memorandum of Understanding in summer 2010, the loan agreement that thoroughly change Greeks’ lives. ” I didn’t read the MoU because I had other duties. I had to challenge the crime as Minister of Citizen’s protection. It wasn’t my job to read it” Chryssochoidis told private Skai TV this morning.
The private energy market is about to collapse in Greece, as the licences of Energa and Hellas Power have been suspended. The two power retailers owe the state 27 million euro, while the financial crime units of Finance Ministry (SDOE) investigate them. 200,000 subscribers that had sought cheaper electricity prices will be forced to return to state power company DEH. I will report on the issue later.
Proton Bank, currently under liquidation, on Monday filed a suit against former major shareholder and board chairman Lavrentis Lavrentiadis and 12 other people, accusing them of a series of criminal-level offences that include breach of faith, fraud, morally instigating and acting as accomplices in these offences and forming a criminal organisation.
A businessman has been detained for owing the state 1,4 million euro. The owner of a transport company had won a proceurement by Education Ministry to transport school books.
Athens Stock Exchange has a bad haircut day. While it experiences a rally of +5% yesterday, today is on a plunge course. Currently (12.39 am) at -2.36%.
Greece’s biggest journalists’s union ESHEA has declared a work stoppage from 10 am to 6 pm. It’s not a protest, it’s just a general assembly meeting to seek solutions for the incredible situation in the financially collapsed media sector. BTW: while all ESHEA members follow the work stoppage call, a private TV station is broadcasting news having replaced the anchorwoman apparently with a no union member. The 3-hour programme has the title ‘Breaking News’, although nothing has been broken ….
Pharmacies will be closed on Tuesday afternoon. A work stoppage aiming to protest the new opening hours imposed by the government. Punished is not the government but the patients. Business as usual…
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Glad I found your blog. The government bears the blame for this situation. However, many have allowed themselves to be blackmailed into submission by (public sector) unions. And still there is no end to this. Stop the fragging strikes! They’ll be your undoing, literally. When will Greeks wake up to this?
hard to say. many Greeks still under the influence of sedatives distributed to them by the two big political parties.
It was not his job???!!! “I had other duties”… He put his hand up and agreed with the darned thing when he was sitting at that idiotic big government table. So this Minister of Development, that runs one of the departments that spent the most, did not found it necessary to read this agreement. Just agreed to it and signed for it. But what is in it? Why should HE care???!!! He had better things to do… Heck, even I read it. And it did not take long. And I am not even getting paid for it. No I PAY for his NOT reading. We all do. Except this gentleman.
This is one of those very seldom moments that I would have hit someone when he would have been in front of me when he said that. I was already working and not really watching it, when it came up… I simply did not believe that I heard right this morning. Now, I saw it back and it IS true…
As I said, this guy is running the Department of Development. Guess there is not much chance he reads all those million costing proposals there? As he has better things to do. Like running for head of PASOK. Great. Wearing his dark suit and white shirt and hastily ditched his tie to look… ‘one-of-us’? Look ‘The Part’?
But it is clear now why only the chapter “Raise Taxes” was executed. Nobody cared to read it. It was not their freaking job to.
Can somebody please sack that man today before he spends us into a even deeper hole?!
*All the above has to be read with Caps Lock ON for better representation about my mood*
Ah, who cares! And nobody will have noticed since ESHEA-members had better things to do today… Can anybody tell me if they know of any other country where journalist are so often NOT working and closing down news coverage. I am really breaking my head, but can’t think of one…
antoni you also mirror my mood when i read that too. is it not his job to read agreements that involve the country ans a member of goverment? even if it isnt since his signature or vote in his case was needed was he not taught at a young age to be careful where he put his signature and other “things”? im no politician but when i am asked to decide on something or to sign a contract i read the damn thing. To me that just reaffirms how useless our politicians are and how stupid we as citizens have been all this years for voting these logs. KTG i apologise for the aggresive tone on this comment. but it is infuriating and if i dint respect you anf your readers i would have easily used even heavier words.
No worries, it’s not aggressive at all. I also try very hard to avoid heavier words in my posts out of aesthetic approach to my blog and its readers.