The platform for submitting applications for the “social tourism program,” which concerns 300,000 beneficiaries, opens on Wednesday, June 15, at 13:00 and will “run” for the period from 1 August 2022 to 31 July 2023. Its budget is 35 million euros, an amount increased by 5 million euros compared to …
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Mitsotakis attacks unemployed, claims “lack of skills” reason “professional jobless” don’t get a job
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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Finance ministry offers overtaxation protection to occasional workers for 2017 income
Greece’s Finance Ministry submitted a regulation to the Parliament offering tax protection to occasional workers with low annual income. The regulation refers to incomes obtained in 2017 and was submitted ahead of the tax declarations to be made in coming weeks of 2018. The regulation allows low-income tax payers who …
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Labour Minister announces €400 one-off Christmas bonus to young jobless
Labor Minister Efi Ahtsiglou announces a 400-euro one-off Christmas bonus to young unemployed aged 18-24 who are normally not eligible to unemployment allowance. The bonus is described as “youth solidarity” allowance and is expected to be distributed by the end of the month. Eligible are unemployed aged 18-24 who are …
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31-year-old Unemployed father of two commits suicide in Crete
A 31-year-old man shot himself with a rifle in the chest in a neighborhood of Heraklion on the island of Crete. He had left a note to his children. The man was found by his mother. According to local media, the man was unemployed something that had burdened him psychologically. …
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Absurd overtaxation: Low-incomers, unemployed taxed 3 times their income
Thousands of unemployed taxpayers with no income at all or very low one have been called to pay disproportionately high taxes between 2,000-4,500 euro. Why this? Blame the so-called deemed income criteria that calculate a fictitious tax according to living conditions and not real income. The absurdity of this taxation …
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MdM Greece: 3 million people without access to health care
More than 1,3 million people living in Greece are without a job. this number refers only to employees. Self-employed are not recorded in the official unemployment numbers. People without work have no health insurance. But they have diseases and conditions that need treatment. “Three million people living in Greece have …
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The long arm of Greek tax office confiscates “unemployment allowance” as well
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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Sweden’s jobless youth should find work in …Greece and Spain
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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Athens: Unemployed Protester Dies After Suffering Heart Attack
A man, 65, passed away on Tuesday during anti-austerity protests in downtown Athens. According to latest media reports, the protester fainted shortly after PAME , the workers union of Greek Communist Party (KKE) had concluded its march outside the Parliament. The man was rushed to the hospital by an ambulance. Despite the doctors’ efforts …
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Sleepless in Greece: 2 MM suffer from insomnia – economic crisis
Millions of people around the globe spend sleepless nights due to economic crisis. In Greece the phenomenon hits mostly unemployed aged 35-55 and according to latest data more than 2 million Greeks have difficulties to find peace at night said Athanasio Skourleti, President of Athens Medical Society. Unemployment in Greece has …
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Protesters storm State TV during Prime Time News
Maria Houkli/Prime Time News/NET Photo: copied from blogs Some 40 unemployed teachers have interrupted the prime time news of the Greek state television NET. The protesters – unemployed teachers – have managed to enter the building of State Boradcast Corp. ( ERT) after a scuffle with security guards it. Education Minister Anna …
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