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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy, Very Mix on 17. May, 2013 | 16 Comments
EU-Absurd to ban olive oil jugs & dipping bowls from restaurants tables
Sometimes I sit there and I wonder what weird committees must be sitting in Brussels wasting the money of taxpayers for issuing absurd orders. An European Union Common Agricultural Policy directive “will ban olive oil jugs and dipping bowls from restaurant tables as of 1. January 2014 for reasons of
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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy on 17. May, 2013 | No Comments
EU Commission Greece’s report: end of recession in 2014 and unemployment at 21% in 2016
Recession in Greece is likely to end in 2024 but unemployment will remain above 20 percent for another three years. That would be …ehm… let me count… in 2016! Nice perceptive for the more than 1.3 million jobless. In a report published on Friday, the European Commission predicted the possibility
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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics on 17. May, 2013 | 4 Comments
UPD Greek Parliament: Neo-nazi MPs shout “Heil Hitler” after ejection of fellow MP for cursing?
An unprecedented incident occurred at the Greek Parliament on Friday morning with Golden Dawn MPs cursing “trash”, “gang” and “sheep” at other lawmakers and reportedly shouting “heil Hitler”, while leaving the plenary hall. The incident started when GD MP Panagiotis Iliopoulos spoke in disdain about a party leader (Tsipras) and
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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy, Society on 13. May, 2013 | 12 Comments
Fiction meets reality in surreal Greece: “Deemed Income” taxes also people without income
Are you alive and happen to live in Greece? You will be taxed even if your income is zero for the sole reason that you are alive. For the exclusive and amazing Greek air you are allowed to breath, so to say. The financial ministry has calculated that every person
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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society on 30. Apr, 2013 | 1 Comment
That’s the real Greek anti-austerity protests.
Head of EU Task Force, Horst Reichenbach, expressed his surprise about the fact that Greeks do not demonstrate against austerity. He described the Greeks’ reaction as “very moderate” apparently watching only a few hundreds fro civil servants union protesting outside the Parliament last Sunday. When lawmakers were voting a multi-bills
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tagged: education ministry, Greece, jobs, loss, secondary education, strike, strikes, teachers, trasfer, university entrance exams, work places1 Comment
Teachers – Gov’t conflict threatens university entrance exams for thousands of students
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
The union of secondary school teachers (OLME) announced on Friday its decision to launch two strikes that they will cause serious disruption of university entrance exams and affect thousands of high school students. OLME decide for a 24-hour strike on May 17th, the first day of exams, while it proposed
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tagged: assassination, Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos, foiled, istanbul, other plots against Vartholomeos, plot, TurkeyNo comments
Alleged assassination plot against Ecumenical Partiarch Vartholomeos foiled
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Turkey-GR
An alleged assassination plot against Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos has been foiled by police in Turkey. According to Turkish media, one suspect has been arrested while police is searching for two others. The investigation was launched after a letter was sent from the Central Anatolia province of Kayseri, claiming that the
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How expats experience “three years Greece in the crisis” (Part VIII)
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
The issue of negative stereotypes towards Greeks in the crisis and the lack of understanding from the side of people living abroad are been featured here in the story I received a couple of days ago. And I would say “yes”, it’s difficult to understand how the system works here
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May
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tagged: 128 million euro debt, debts, Greece, Papandreou, PASOK, political parties, unsutainable debt, Venizelos2 Comments
PASOK sinks in debts: €110 million loans in one decade!
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics
There stuns the average Greek and possibly also the former PASOK voter: in less than a decade, year in, year out, Greece’s socialist party spent 10 million euro more than it could ‘earn’ and took loans generously given by the banks with the effect that the current debt stands at
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May
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tagged: corruption, deemed income, Greece, new taxation system, self-employed, USA taxation system2 Comments
Greece hammers out new system for self-employed: taxation according to “deemed income”
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy
Unable – or better say: unwilling – to combat notorious tax evasion by the rich, the Greek government thought of another revolutionary plan to get revenues: taxation of self-employed according to deemed income. Not the real income will be taxed but the estimated income according to a broader number of
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Greek FinMin: “No tax reduction in heating oil”, V.A.T. decrease in catering … maybe
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy
“Reduction of tax on heating oil in not feasible at this stage,” Greek finance minister Yiannis Stournaras said on Thursday. “Tax cuts are desirable, but it is currently not possible” the minister added rendering as “major obstacles” to such a move “that revenues are a little worse than the targets.”
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Thessaloniki: frustrated merchants saw Easter turnover decrease at 20%
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy
Merchants in Thessaloniki are frustrated. Consumption during the Holy Easter Week did not meet their expectations. According to a survey conducted by the Commercial Association of Thessaloniki among 100 traders, revenues dropped 20% in average when compared to the previous year. 82% of the respondent saw a decrease in turnover.
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tagged: belief, from 2014 onwards, Greece, Greek Finance Minister, Hope, recovery, unemployment, Yiannis Stournaras1 Comment
Greek FinMin believes, “economic recovery in sight end of 2014″ unemployment to start decreasing even later
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy
I think, I’m at the verge of a laugh attack today. Laugh is the cheapest and best remedy against depression – or insanity -, I hear. After the horrifying news that more than 6 out of 10 Greek youth have no job, the total terror comes from the lips of
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May
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Greece’s youth unemployment skyrockets at 64% – general rate at 27% in Feb 2013
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy, Society
While Greece’s political leadership cheers the country’s progress and dives in a lake of unexplained optimism, the average Greek sinks deeper in misery. Eleven thousand people lost their jobs within one month – that is 392 people per day. The total number of unemployed to have reached 1,320,189, unemployment has
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How expats experience “three years Greece in the crisis” (Part VII)
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
Easter holidays are over, they were spent in a nice and peaceful atmosphere, I suppose and hope. Now we can comfortably return to our Greek reality, specifically to our expat stories, where foreigners write down their experience and how they come along with the Greek crisis. Three years after the
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