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tagged: eurogroup meeting, Feb 14 2012, government reshuffle, Greece, Papademos, what's up in greeceWhat’s Up in Greece on Feb 14/12?
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix
Valentine’s Day? Why’s the mood so miserable here? Because Greeks are still shocked about the voting of the new loan agreement and the austerity measures that will hammer them as soon as possible. Starting with lowering of the minimum wage. “Automatically”. This month!
PM Lucas Papademos seeks to reshuffle the cabinet. No major change is expected, it looks as if only the ministers who resigned will be replaced. A cabinet meeting is scheduled for 3 pm today, the government reshuffle is due ‘tomorrow the latest’.
Further Papademos tries to clean the issue of the written pledges the Troika asks from the leaders of the coalition government parties.
And he will try to find 325 million euro, a cuts hole in the new loan agreement. Government spokesman Pantelis Kapsis said that this amount will be cut from the ministries expenditures.
Things have to be proceeded quickly, so that Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos can join the Eurogroup meeting tomorrow and come back as a ….”winner” (?!). The Eurogroup ministers will decide whether to give Greece the second bailout or not. Some Euro-partners insist on provisions to punish Greece in case it will not stick to the agreement and Finland wants a collateral deal.
After coalition government parties expelled some 45 members for not voting or for voting in favor of the new loan agreement on Sunday, the second strongest “party” in the Parliament is this of the 64 independent MPs. There are some rumors, that the MPs expelled from PASOK plan to establish a new party.
The first estimations about the damages caused by rioters, arsonists and looters on Sunday are nightmarish: 200 damaged business places, a financial blow worth at least 70 million euro.
There were some incidents on Monday night in Patras and Agrinio. Angry protesters demolished the political office of deputy Defence Minister Costas Spiliopoulos (PASOK) and disturbed a meeting attended by a local politician of Nea Dimokratia.
In Agrinio youth attacked the local offices of government partner LAOS, set garbage bins on fire and clashed with police.
On tuesday morning pensioners from the public and private sector demonstrated outside the Labour Ministry,
The new loan agreement will bring new hikes in the prices of electricity within 2012. Power prices went up in January. [Thinking of starting a candles-business....]
A powerful earthquake of 5.1 on the Richter scale shake Chalkidiki, Northern Greece, at 3.34 am. The epicenter was in the sea area, 24 km West from the Athos peninsula. There have been no reports about injuries of material damage.
In Athens, a powerful explosion occurred at a cafe at 4 am in Chaidari suburb in the West of the Greek capital. The detonation damaged also 15 shops in the area. Police speculates that a gang of loan sharks is behind the attack.
The weather is chilly in Athens and snowy in the North of Greece.
The joy in the Athens Stock Exchange lasted just one day. As of 11.37 am this morning, the ASE is down at -1.40%.
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Germany does not even have a minimum wage.
Why does Greece?
why Portugal? Greece is not Germany, Greece has no social state…?
1st, sorry, BUT: that’s an ugly lie!
Germoney has minimum wages for lots of jobs, it hasn’t them for all but that’s on its way – even “Mutti” (Angie) wants that!!!
That Germoney gots – and reading a KKE communiqué regarding that, i think workers in Greece know that – are socalled “Mini-Jobs” and that’s similiar shit Mr. Thomsen wants for Greece when he speaks of “100-400 Euro-Jobs”.
But with a huge difference:
As an in Germoney living unemployed you’ll get 374 Euros plus rent plus nearly free healthcare (they will pay you that money even if you tell’em you’ll go to Greece looking for a job – that’s a bit complicated but it works for 3 months!).
This money is exactly the same that you’ll receive as a pensioner although you never were able to pay in, because you were forced to be an “independent” contractor/small “business” man, f.i.
The employer is allowed to give you a 400 Euro Mini-Job (for him taxfree!) and of that you’ll get 160 Euro (plus your welfare) and surely most of them will try to suck the most out of you they can and if you don’t cooperate they call the unemployed office to cut your money; this 160 is nearly the same you’ll get “extra” when they force you into “1-Euro-Jobs” (which destroyed lots of regular jobs as the mini jobs do too) and they calculated that on how much workers get paid.
The results are masses of working poor that have to ask for (extra) welfare, also small businessmen have to do so and so there’s also something like general “survival” wage existing; just to trick out minimum wage!
These are also the results of the so called “Agenda 20-10″ created by social democrats/greens and invented it was by Bill Clinton!
So, what the bosses want is to give Greece German medicine firstly incomplete and secondly try the trick with the mini-jobs beside cutting minimum wages and everything but the complete medicine would mean to give Greece a welfare system.
The main problems will be to learn how they work in different countries and to work against their propaganda machine, but may be this will get solved easier than thought as they force Greeks out of their land and then the disease of freedom will get spread through first hand informations; if the migrating Greeks don’t hide in their communities.
It helps to understand that any existing welfare system is a result of simply classwars and it’s invention only came out of fear of social unrest.
in Germany the mini-jobs and the 1-euro-AGs brought nothing. It’s just dust in the eyes of the needy. Waste of time even for those who smitted these plans. But Germany has still a welfare state,as you write.
They bring extra profits for the bosses, clean up the statistics, make work cheaper in general (who needs nurses when we have unemployed 1 Euro jobbers?) (don’t forget that German pensioners want their asses get cleaned in the south) and it will be used as a blueprint for other societies without welfare and as a weapon to create more slavery work.
“clean up statistics” good point. and Hey, we don;t want to see asses here lol
One question, which has been bugging me for the last week or so.. Re. the minimum wage. Is it “only” gonna effect those who start to work, like season workers who get a new contract each year, OR will it effect everyone, incl. those who already work on a minimum salery?
as much as I understand, it will be valid also for those whose contracts according to national bargain will expire. I understood that it will affect them as well.
Christ.. It just makes no sense, what so ever..