Tag Archives: civil servants

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 …

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Greece, the well known proud but broke country, has a total number of 665,740 civil servants.  According to latest data published by Minister for Administrative Refort Antonis Manitakis as of July 19th 2012 the total number of public servants was 665,740. This number referred to employees at the state, state organisations and the …

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 Newly appointed Development Minister Anna Diamantopoulou took some rigorous decision: She asked 37 civil servants incl. their supervisors at the ministry’s Private Investment Department to resign and ordered the inspector of public administration to open their bank accounts and investigate their assets from 2005 until today. Greek Development, Competitiveness and …

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The Memorandum of Understanding, the cuts in wages and pensions concern all Greeks. All nearly all. 500 people working in the public sector, next to deputy ministers and secretary generals of certain ministries will be excluded by the new payroll and receive wages increases instead. Daily “Athesmeftos Typos” revealed that in the ministries of …

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UPDATE: Shortly after 4.30 pm the mother was convinced to step down from the OEK window. At 3 pm she was seriously about to jump from the window but a woman persuaded not to do so. The drama of the parents who threatened to commit suicide due to upcoming unemployment …

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The new and additional austerity measures, the new uncontrolled taxation of low incomes, are here and they have been given to the stunned Greeks via a written statement. I guess, no government minister dared a televised announcement fearing that the television screens would be covered with yogurt – and who can spare even a …

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Greek government is considering to give some employment options to civil servants and thus at the expenses of private sector employees. Daily TA NEA reports that civil servants will be given the incentive for an unpaid leave and employment in the private sector. The civil servant will be granted the …

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Some Greeks are idle enough to think bureaucracy is a lethal plant unique to Greek soil. There is this Spanish video though proving that civil servants of the type “I’m lazy, I hate you and I love it” are everywhere to find -preferably at the north part of the Mediterranean basin. In the south part, civil …

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Greek Finance Ministry is investigating the assets of about 70 employees, who declared an average income of €50,000 but were found out to possess real estate properties worth 800,000 to 3 million euros,  newspaper Ethnos  reported on its Sunday edition.  Furthermore 234 FinMin employees seem to have never submitted an income tax declaration, …

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PM Papandreou iin Castelorizo Greece: Officially Bankrupt! Bailout Plea from EU/IMF It took PM George Papandreou several hundred miles to travel to the fringe and picturesque island of Castelorizo, near Turkey, to make the long-expected rescue appeal for the Greek bankrupt economy. Greece admits, it is now officially bankrupt, unable …

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