What’s Up in Greece on Feb 2/12? tagged: , ,

What’s Up in Greece on Feb 2/12?

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix

The same as yesterday… Snow, cold, PSI, additional austerity measures, and Greece’s lenders insisting in cutting wages. Things seem to have frozen not only due to low temperatures. However time presses and Greece has to have completed several duties and commitments by the end of the week.

PM Lucas Papademos will meet the leaders of the political parties forming his coalition government most likely tomorrow and will ask them to agree on the upcoming two loan agreements containing additional austerity measures to secure the second bailout and thus in written form. Will they manage to agree at least on some reforms?

The social partners (trade unions, employers’ associations, gov’ official) will hold a meeting to discuss the Troika’s demand to abolish the 13th and 14th salary in the private sector. Rovertos Spyropoulos, IKA social security fund, told ANT1 TV that if the social partners do not find a compromise on the issue, the government will do pass the decision with a legislative act.

The Finance Ministry prepares a bill that will decrease installments to pay debts to the state from 60 down to 24.

The parliamentary group of coalition gov’ partner PASOK is meeting in the afternoon for discuss how and who to appoint as the group leader.

Many schools -mostly in Northern Greece – remain closed today due to snowfalls and frost.  Ten villages are isolated from the world due to heavy snowfall. Trucks have been banned from the highways until 2 pm Thursday.

Temperatures are expected to rise as of Friday afternoon.

Workers at Athens trolley have a work stoppage from 11 am to 4 pm, today.

Public hospitals personnel protested outside the Health Ministry for the receiving wages of 10 or 20 euro in February due to retrospective deductions. 

PS It’s not that there are no news today, but these are not small news; just big ones that need separate posting… :)

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