Greek Palriament approved with 153 YES votes the omnibus bill of 5.4billion euro austerity measures. All MPs of SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government supported the bill paving the way for the government to go to the Eurogroup meeting on May 24th hoping for release of bailout tranche and debt relief talks.
However, one SYRIZA MP, Vasiliki Katrivanou, voted YES for the bill in principle but NO to the articles concerning the Privatization Fund and the IMF’s Contingency measures thus making the famous difference in the party line.
Now some rumors in the media claim that she may as well resign from SYRIZA parliamentary group.
Greek political tradition has it that the party leader expels defiant MPs when they don;t follow the party line in voting.
If rumors turn into reality, this will be a blow to the coalition government that with 153 seats has a thin majority in a Parliament of 300.
Hi KTG. Any news about pension reform? Any news about other reforms, like statistical office, central registry of realities?
(Tax increase is very stupid way of making money in depression – the ONLY AND ONLY way out is pension reform and system order plus agreements with creditors after that)
As it’s anti-European and schizoid that in countries with the same currency wages are totally different the reform will start to put all European unemployment allowance and welfare on the bombastic Greek level
Reform needs depends on financial situation my dear Giaourti. SIMPLY Greece is in shit, thus the reform pressures are higher there (it is not schizoid it is your bordel), but yes you are right – ALL countries in Europe will need the pension reform sooner or later. Otherwise social engineers (like frau Merkel) will tell stupid voters that immigrants are necessary for their future pensions, which is bullshit, not immigrants, but individual accouts are necessary. I hope you agree at least here with me:)
Ciao
Nonsense, as therefore every month workers are forced to pay pension-insurance, if there is no money left then it’s fraud by the state who steals it from the workers; just like the taxes the system enforces on the workers to fund oppression; freedom is not possible with states. The German fascist government should pay German war-debts to Greece and the problem is solved, afterwards it can fuck off and go die.
what did you expect? in ex communist countries, they got pensions without paying social security contributions.
pls give us some facts about REAL reforms made by Greeks instead of bullshits about countries with financiel discipline like “they got pensions without paying social security contributions.” – where did you find this “information”?
OMG you guys are really not able to improve.
It is now clear that you do not understand the topic. Current systems (not ony in Greece but also in Germany and many other states) must be changed from “now we use all the money we have, and in the future somebody somehow will find the money for pensions” to disciplined individual savings and reserve creation.
In fact you wrote the same as I did “if there is no money left then it’s fraud”, but instead of understanding what the point is – non existence of STRICTLY individual savings accounts, you are again diving into typical greek blabla – everybody is our enemy.
No not fascists, but just non existing financial dispciline and individual pension savings is the problem. Try to use your brain please, instead of this propagandistic blabla.
It’s the money workers already had to pay and capitalist shit-heads and their lackeys ripped it off by “investing” it, you’d think the only party that made reforms was N 17?
Try to use your brain please, instead of this propagandistic blabla.