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Archive - 2012

July 13th

Teachers and professors threaten protests

13 July 2012 / 21:07:49  
Some of them are against the method of objective assessment of their performance and others oppose the reduction of their salaries. At the same time, a prosecutor investigation of financial irregularities has begun in the University of Thessaloniki.


July 13th

The share of the informal economy in 2012 is 24.3% of GDP

13 July 2012 / 20:07:31  
Professor Frederick Schneider, who is a tax specialist at the Economic Policy Institute in Johannes Kepler, University of Linz presented the data. He spoke at the eighth annual tax forum in Athens organized by the Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce.


Complicated competences in the government prevent Greece from using the European Union funds

13 July 2012 / 17:07:07  
Allocate the responsibilities of ministries and local governments properly in order to absorb the funds from the National Reference Strategic Framework, Commissioner for Regional Development Johannes Hahn advised the Greek government.


45% confidence in the government shows a poll by Public Issue

13 July 2012 / 14:07:18  
Social Union, Forward, New Reformers, P80, Country 2012 and Initiative V are making a social coalition that is preparing to present the new face of Euro-socialists in Greece.


We will cut the power if you sell the Greek Public Power Corporation

12 July 2012 / 21:07:07  
The trade union leader of the electricity company threatened to pull the plug in the heat.


SYRIZA wants cooperatives, not privatisation

12 July 2012 / 21:07:44  
The strongest hand of the tripartite government of New Democracy, PASOK and the Democratic Left is the privatisation programme. Not all players on the political scene share this view and the main opponent to the privatisation processes is the opposition radical left party SYRIZA. Its long-time member and an experienced politician Dimitris Papadimoulis agreed to present to the readers of GRReporter SYRIZA’s alternative for avoiding privatisation.


July 12th

Pensioners’ protest against healthcare policy

12 July 2012 / 17:07:41  
Two elderly men almost fainted due to the heat and had to be given first aid.