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Feb
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Patras: Protesters Bang Empty Pots Against Austerity (video)
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: austerity measures, banging the pots, Greece, Patras, protest, video
4
Feb
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Greece’s Neo-Homeless Seek Shelter at Airport
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: airport, Greece, homeless, Klimaka ngo, shelter
4
Feb
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Thessaloniki: Farmers from Nevrokopi Distribute Free Potatoes (pics, video)
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: AGROTICA Fair, drama, featured, free distribution, Greece, Nevrokopi, potatoes, protest, Thessaloniki
3
Feb
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Greek FinMin: Impotant Amendments on Emergency Property Tax
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy, Society
tagged: 6 months, amendments, emergency property tax, exemptions, extension, families with many children, featured, Finance Ministry, Greece, payment deadline, poll tax, power cut offs, reductions, tourist accomodation
3
Feb
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Patras: Property Owner Hands Out Home-Keys to Bank
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: bank loan, featured, Greece, home, keys, mortgage, Patras, property owner, property taxes
2
Feb
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Greece’s Trade Unions, Employers Reject Troika’s Demands For Wages Cuts in Private Sector
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: 13th 14th salary, employers' association, Greece, GSEE, minimum wage, social partners, talks, trade unions, Troika
2
Feb
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Athens: Health Workers Protest with a …Coffin (video)
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: Athens, coffin, Greece, health care, personnel, protests, public hospitals, wages cuts
2
Feb
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Greek Pupils: With Gloves and Scarves in Schools Due to Austerity
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: Greece, heating oil, schools, shortage, TA NEA
1
Feb
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Greek Austerity: €9.2B Evaporated from Households Due To Wages Cuts of 25%
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy, Society
tagged: 25, cut, employees, Greece, IKA, insurance funds, Koutroumanis, Labour Minister, private sector, wages
1
Feb
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Homeless in Freezing Athens (videos) – Any Blankets to Spare?
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: Athens, Athens Municipality, blankets, donate, featured, freezing, Greece, homeless, Videos, winter
1
Feb
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Thessaloniki: Pensioners Protest Health Care Cuts
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: access, cuts, Greece, health care, pensioners, prescription medicine, protest, Thessaloniki
1
Feb
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Serres: 30 Households Without Electricity – “Sorry, Mistake!” says PPC
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society, Uncategorized
tagged: 30 households, electricity cut offs, emergency property tax, Greece, neochori, Serres
31
Jan
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Greek Consumers Change Habits Due to Economic Crisis
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: Boston Consulting Group, change habits, consumers, consuming, Greece, survey
31
Jan
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Athens: School Children To Get Free Meals – Thessaloniki: 500 Kids Go to School w/o Breakfast
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: Athens, children without breakfast, education ministry, free meals, free snacks, Greece, Greek children, schools, Thessaloniki
30
Jan
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The Troika: Killing the Greek Patient – Softly?
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: austerity, fiscal discipline, Greece, IMF, national health care system, public hospitals, situation, state hospitals
25
Jan
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Patras: “Seek & Hide”, “Cut & Run” -Tragicomedy as Private Companies Cut the Power to Property Tax Dodgers
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy, Society
tagged: DEH, electricity cuts, emergency property tax, Greece, Patras, patras times.gr, power cutss, PPC, private companies, tragicomedy
25
Jan
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Athens: Unionists Block Troika-Team from Exiting Hilton-Hotel
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: Athens, Greece, Greek Communist Party, Hilton Hotel, labour rights, PAME, protest, Troika
25
Jan
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Hundreds of Athenians Queue For Free Vegetables
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: Asopos, Athens, farmers, free vegetables, Greece, queue, syntagma square, Thebes, Viotia
23
Jan
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Greece’s Pharmacies On Work Stoppage, Jan 24/12
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
tagged: Greece, Jan 24 2012, pharmacies, work stoppage
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