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Four men in black carry a wooden coffin. The band of Athens Municipality plays funeral music. Three men carry funeral wreaths with the names of the leaders of the three-party coalition government. The procession walks slowly through the streets of downtown Athens, passes through the Ministry of Administrative Reform and reaches outside the Greek …

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With slogans and banners against the loan agreement, municipality workers and civil servants took to the streets on Monday, protesting the measure of ‘labour reserve’ that will forcefully sent home workers with only 75% of their salary and thus as of next month.  Municipality workers launched nationwide mobilizations protesting the labour …

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Hardly had the Eurogroup meeting ended on Monday and the Greek government took immediate action to show it is keen to keep its promises to lenders. Administrative Reform Ministry issued a circular setting the framework for the plan to send home 2,000 civil servants on 75% of their salary and …

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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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I am clueless. I simply can’t decide whether it’s a kind of  limited brain capacity on my side, whether Greek journalism is bad or whether I live in a country that resembles a crazy house. A storm of circulars, amendments, back doors and exemptions, and new cuts in the welfare state have been …

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