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EOPYY Doctors To Charge Insured Patients (Aug 20-Sept2/2012)

August 9, 2012 Comments Off on EOPYY Doctors To Charge Insured Patients (Aug 20-Sept2/2012)

Private doctors collaborating with Greece’s National Organization for Health Care Provision (EOPYY), decided to stop offering their services on credit and charge insured patients. This so called “warning mobilization” will be implemented from August 20th to September 2nd, 2012. With the action called “work retention”, doctors want to put under pressure the …

Greece Breaks New Record. In …Unemployment!

August 9, 2012 Comments Off on Greece Breaks New Record. In …Unemployment!

Unemployment successfully managed to break a new record and climbed up to 23.1% in May 2012. According to Greek Statistics Authority (ELSTAT), unemployment in May 2012 rose to 23.1% from 22.6% a month earlier. In comparison unemployment was 16.8% in May 2011. The total number of jobless Greeks is 1,147,372 men …

Tough Times for Greek Patients as Doctors, Pharmacists Plan Boycotts – Again!

August 9, 2012 4

The situation is getting out of control here. Greece seems unable to pay its obligations to personnel and suppliers in the health care, doctors and pharmacists are getting ready to boycott patients’ access to health care. Private doctors want to suspend their work contracts with Greece’s National Organization for Health …

“EU Source” Claims No €31-Billion Bailout Tranche Before October

August 8, 2012 4

The notorious but anonymous “EU source” spoke again. And said that Greece would not receive the €31-billion bailout tranche before upcoming October. Greece has been expecting to receive the financial aid in September, but the EU source claimed Greece’s lenders won’t give any green light to the tranche, before the Eurogroup meeting in …

Juncker: “Some Greek Newspapers See Merkel as Late Heiress of the Nazis”

August 8, 2012 4

Is this some kind of avantgarde humor from Luxembourg? The country’s prime minister and head of the Euro group, Jean Claude Juncker told German public broadcaster WDR, that “some Greek newspapers treat German chancellor Angela Merkel as if she were the successor of the Nazis. Juncker was speaking about Greece when he …

Greek Government Crisis No 2: The Hot Potato of “Labour Reserve”

August 8, 2012 Comments Off on Greek Government Crisis No 2: The Hot Potato of “Labour Reserve”

Greece’s three-party coalition government faces a new test. The cohesion of Samara’s government is under strong pressure due to some measures essential to reach the volume of 11.5 billion euro spending cuts. Precisely the issue of “labour reserve” in the public sector threatens to bring Greek government into falling apart. Two junior government …

Standard & Poor’s Revised Greece’s Outlook to Negative

August 8, 2012 Comments Off on Standard & Poor’s Revised Greece’s Outlook to Negative

Ratings agency Standard & Poor΄s on Tuesday revised Greece΄s outlook to negative, saying the debt-ridden euro zone country could need more help from its international creditors. “Following delays in implementing budgetary consolidation measures and a worsening Greek economy, we believe Greece is likely to require additional financing for 2012 under …

Greeks Angry About No Lay-Offs in Public Sector, Cuts in Lowest-Pensions

August 7, 2012 50

Greeks are getting more and more angry. Each and every day fresh adrenaline shot drive high blood pressure, heart beats and deep rooted frustration. They need just a tiny spark to explode. Reason for this boiling mood are the upcoming additional austerity measures, the so-called “spending cuts” worth 11. billion euro. So far, no public …

The Nightmare on Padlocks Street – 68K Small Businesses Closed Down in First 6 Months of 2012

August 7, 2012 1

The voracious recession is swallowing one after the other small businesses and enterprises in Greece. Day in, day out. Estimated 68,000 commercial and small businesses have ceased their activity from early 2011 until April 2012. The storm of padlocks has taken epidemic dimensions and is not excepted to calmed down …

IMF Pushes EU Lenders To Reduce Greece’s Debt

August 7, 2012 Comments Off on IMF Pushes EU Lenders To Reduce Greece’s Debt

That’s enlightening. The International Monetary Fund allegedly pushes European governments to ease the burden of borrowed sums to Greece. The IMF claims, it is under pressure by its own members about the huge amounts they have lent to Euro Zone. Speaking to Wall Street Journal under conditions of anonymity, IMF …

Why No Politician Dares Telling Greeks About the €11.5 Billion Cuts?

August 6, 2012 3

The Troika left, Greek politicians were left behind. In Athens. Greece’s lenders inspectors left the Greek capital Athens on Sunday after they laid the country’s coalition government leaders on Procrustes* bed. Representatives from IMF, EU and ECB did not stretched them on the rogue’s bed. Instead, they cut so much it needed to fit to …

SPIEGEL: Alexis Tsipras Among the “10 Most Dangerous Politicians of Europe”

August 6, 2012 8

Alexis Tsipras, leader of left-wing SYRIZA and leader of main opposition party is one of “10 most dangerous politicians in Europe of euro crisis”, if we want to believe German weekly DER SPIEGEL. According to German weekly the “Ten agitators to bring the European project is in serious danger,” are “profiteers …