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Unemployment rate in Greece fell to 10.9% of the workforce in March 2023s year, from 11.3% in February and 12.7% in March 2022, Greek Statistics Authority ELSTAT said on Wednesday. The number of unemployed people totaled 508,744, down 100,395 from March 2022 (16.5%) and down 14,096 from February 2023 (2.7%). …

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In a new burst of toxic arrogance, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attacked unemployed citizens calling them “professional jobless” claiming that “jobless do not find jobs because they lack the appropriate basic qualifications and skills.” Speaking at the Parliament to defend the new bill “Jobs Again” the PM blamed the unemployed …

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The number of unemployed in Greece increased by 2% in January 2019. It should be noted that in the same month the increase of the minimum wage was introduced. One in two registered unemployed (486,019 persons, 50.76%) are on the lists of the Greek Manpower Employment Organization OAED for a …

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Ignorance? Want? Ugly, mean and greedy little creatures? That was in mid-Victorian England and in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.  In the novel that has touched millions people ever since it was first published in 1843, ‘the two emaciated children” grow up to be adults, Ignorance as adult man in …

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Unemployed since 2011. No income. Father of three children. What does he do? He starts to sell bagels and donuts on the streets and at the beaches in order to secure a meal for his children. What happens? Police spots him selling the staff for 0.50 cent to one euro, …

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Another one who proves that he has absolutely no idea how the world of internet works and what income one could expect. The Greek Labor Minister suggested that journalists who will lose their jobs because their employers did not manage to secure a TV license should start their own websites …

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Only ten percent of Greece’s unemployed receives the unemployment allowance of 360 euro per month. According to Greek Employment Agency (OAED) governor Maria Karamesini, there are currently 1,050,000 registered as ‘unemployed’ and only 10% of them – that is 100,000 people – receive the small aid. Unemployment allowance is given …

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Ok. Public opinion polls were a big fail as 12 out of 14 pollsters were predicting “neck and neck” race between Syriza and New Democracy . Also the Exit polls were wrong. The failed Syriza lead at 4%. Nevertheless, this is the only information we have about how Greek jobless …

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Greek Finance Ministry announced on 8. July that banks will remain closed until at least midnight on 13 July 2015, that is one day after the EU Summit on Sunday. The Finance Ministry further announced that   * Daily withdrawal from ATM remains at €60. *Pensioners without credit or debit …

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She sat in front of the television set Monday morning and watched the party of the cleaners who have been hired again by the Finance Ministry. She watched the smiling faces of the 595 women who had been protesting outside the ministry in downtown Athens for 20 months. She watched …

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Unprecedented!  A ticket controller slapped a woman in the face after he found out that the jobless had no valid ticket with her. The incident occurred at the Metro station Omonia in downtown Athens. The attacker and the victim turned to the nearest police station but the woman was not …

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Greek Finance Ministry is allegedly to tax with 26% the jobless who participated in so-called “subsidized programs” by the Employment Agency. Some news websites report today, that the jobless who participated in these programs will be considered as “self-employed” and will be taxed accordingly with 26% plus tax in advance …

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The story is incredible. In fact, it is “tragicomic,” as the protagonist described it. Lambros Moustakis, 52 years old, homeless and jobless in Athens. Born in Brazil by Greek parents. He was a worker in Argentina, when the International Monetary Fund moved to ‘rescue’ the country. HE moved back to …

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No, there is no way to escape the long arm of Greek taxation and debt big brother – especially if you’re an average taxpayer, with a average or low income. Because if you’re rich, you have already brought your money abroad, parked in an some flowery and sunny tax- and …

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Athens bus public transport company fined a ticket dodger with C72 euro for failing to have a valid ticket of €1.20. When caught by ticket controllers, the 31-year-old woman claimed, she was long-term unemployed and she had no money to pay for the ticket. But in the country with 1.4 …

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There is always a group of people winning in times of high social needs: that’s the swindlers who try to exploit desperation and need. In Greece of recession and high unemployment, job offering swindlers depriving people of hundreds of euro appeared on the scene as soon as the economic crisis …

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For a debt of 831 euro to the Public Water Company, a jobless father of two is about to lose his home. Without job for three years, the man was unable to pay utility bills. His debt to Public water company EYDAP reached 831 euro as he stopped paying since …

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There has been lots of discussions in my environment about why jobless Greeks do not go strawberry picking. Of course, it’s not only strawberries growing in Manolada, Peloponnese. It’s the peaches in Naousa, Macedonia or the apples in Zagora, Pilio just to mention a few of the agricultural products flourishing in Greece. But …

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Saturday morning in Vrilissia, short after 11 o’ clock: a man walks on the street. Suddenly he hides himself in the bushes. Flames arise from the green, screams are to be heard. A driver of a passing car, stops and rush to  extinguish the fire, calls the ambulance. The man is rushed …

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What if in Greece youth unemployment is over 56%? There are always work opportunities for jobless from around the globe. In this case from Sweden, the Scandinavian country that is unable to create 30,000 jobs needed for its own unemployed youth. Therefore Sweden has only one advice: go find seasonal work in …

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