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GREECE: The final proof that Samaras & Venizelos have sold Hellenic sovereignty to the Troika
Rendering Greece defenceless by internet
Recently, the Troika of international lenders told the Athens Coalition that its State-owned defence businesses must be privatised “and restructured”. Earlier this week, the Greek Government offered an alternative suggestion. Within 12 hours the answer came back, predictably, “No”: the three defence industries LARKO, EAS and ELVO must close immediately without compensation for the fired personnel.
The answer came by email.
A member State of the EU begs to keep defence in its own hands, and Big Brother says no by electronic mail. We might just as well reimpose the Gauleiter system. In fact, what the Troika’s doing here is rendering Greece incapable of resistance: shafting its viability as a nation, in the same way that it raped the main Cypriot source of income.
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras seems quite relaxed about this. He has plenty to smile about…..The Slog will be reporting exclusively on this later, once a key source has been verified and certain individuals identified.
Stay tuned.
Dijsselbloem & Co have no idea how to solve Greek debt crisis – and they don’t care either
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy
They all talk about Greece. Again and again. They all talk about the unsolvable Greek debt crisis and say the same things again and again. Those in favor of Greece staying in the euro thus suffocating circumstances and conditions. and those who favor a Greek euro exit thus following dark motives lost in labyrinths of vetted interests.whether the chief of EUrogroup Dijsselbloem, whether the German finance minister or the International Monetary Fund, they are all willing to burden Greece with new loans. But nobody is in position to force his/her brain cells work and produce some new ideas how to have the debt-ridden people of this debt-ridden country come out of the deadlock .
Dijsselbloem: Third bailout for Greece ‘realistic’
Greece’s financial troubles will not end in 2014 and it is therefore realistic to expect the debt-laden country will need additional money from the eurozone before it can return to markets, the head of eurozone finance ministers said.Forcing a debt-ridden borrower to get more loans is the usual practice of greedy bankers when their target is the borrower’s assets.
International lenders estimate that Greece will need around 10-11 billion euros ($13.1-14.4 billion) from the second half of 2014 to keep it going next year and in 2015.
“As far as the potential need for a third program for Greece is concerned, it’s clear that despite recent progress, Greece’s troubles will not have been completely resolved by 2014,” Jeroen Dijsselbloem told the European Parliament.
“It is realistic to assume that additional support will be needed beyond the program. In this context, the Eurogroup has indicated clearly that it is committed to providing adequate support to Greece during the current program and beyond until it has regained market access,” he said. (full article ekathimerini)
Dijsselbloem & Co are no better. They produce not a single idea on how to really solve the Greek debt crisis and they don’t really care. As long as the cow has still milk to offer…
It’s just pity that Greek governments have no idea either.
Northern Greece: 6:10 companies do not pay their employees up to 3-16 months
The news coming from Northern Greece in fact reflects the situation in the labor market all across the country: severe delays in payments to employees, work without insurance. Six out of ten companies delay to pay their employees from three up to sixteen months.This gloomy reality was described by the presidents of labor centers of Northern Greece during a meeting ahead the International Fair of Thessaloniki.
“Black and uninsured labor is the king, while the unemployment rates skyrocket,” they said.
Six out of 10 companies have to pay their employees from 3 to 16 months
Indicative in Thessaloniki unemployment has reached 36%, while in the Evros area near the borders to Turkey it has reached 40%.
In Yiannitsa, the market is practically ‘dead’ as the Greeks cross the border and go to Bulgaria for shopping. Unemployment rate is 56%.
In Drama unemployment is at 50%, in Komotini at 46% and in Serres 42%.
From 100 factories operating back in the year 2000, only 4 are still in operation in 2013. From 17,000 factory employees back then, only 800 still have a job, while the majority of them does not receive their salary in time.
“Jobless Greeks seek work in Bulgaria because the salaries are better,” the presidents claimed.
With the years the economy in Northern Greece plundered when nearby Bulgaria became competitive for investors. Many factory and business owners moved to Bulgaria due to low salaries and corporate taxes.
During the last three years, the “rescue” and austerity packages that overtax every single euro circulating in the Greek market and double- and triple-tax not profit bringing properties and assets have pushed to Bulgaria even the last employers of the area.
It is an utmost immoral practice from the side of employers not to pay their employees. The motive is not always the shortage of liquidity. It is a common practice I have been hearing about for the last two years. That employers invoke the economic crisis to avoid paying their employees.
Here in Athens I get more and more -especially young – people telling me that they’re are hired on trial for a month for full time. After that they get fired and do not receive a cent.
They are shops in our area that continuously work with this practice.
Modern slaves in a morally declined society.
No money for emergency property tax? “Sell your home!” says Greek Minister
ΑHA! A genius proposal by a brilliant politician – you know, of the kind of “siblings of live-long powerful politicians”. Deputy Mercantile Marine Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis stunned the audience of private ANT1 television when he advised families to put ads in the real estate markets and sell their property:“Those who do not have money to pay the emergency property tax, should sell their homes.”
The minister advocated “equality in taxation”, that is a unified property tax based not on owner’s income but on the value of the property of the taxpayer. (via tvxgr)
AHA (Nr 2) ! Varvitsiotis tells me to sell my home commercial worth let’s say 300,000 euro at almost half the price -as the real estate market is in deep recession – in order to pay … what? 750 euro emergency property tax per year? No to mention that if home is sold, there would be no more emergency property tax to be asked by me other than for the current year of selling the property. IS HE NUTS?
A Greek journalist sharply criticized the ‘smart” suggestion reminds of the food black-marketers during the Nazi-occupation during the WWII.
Such a proposal brings us back to older times, when black-marketers* would sell a 5-liter container of oil at the price of a whole property.
The same rules who deprived Greeks from their income, their work, their health care and their pensions during the last four years, now they want to reach out and get the houses for a piece of bread.
Such an idea would bring absolute. On the contrary, such an idea is too risky. It could trigger social explosion. (source)
Upon hearing Varvitsiotis’ proposal, my grandpa (RIP) would burst into laughter and say “Hey! Look who is governing HAHAHA! Look what kind of politicians we have HAHAHA!”. My grandpa would certainly die of a laughter attack.
Who are these Greek ministers and deputy ministers who serve the interests of the country’s lenders and do their best to save the banks and the euro but ruin the Greek people, their voters too? Miltiadis Varvitsiotis is the son of Ioannis Varvitsiotis
I wonder if the throne of the maritime ministry is exposed to the aftershocks of really rough sea?
*the family of one of my aunts were victim to such a deal: the three orphans, aged 12-18, had sold the small family home to black-marketers in order to get food during the Great Famine in 1941-1942.
Greek gov’t: reduction of special tax on heating oil out of question
Just in case you were hoping to be able to heat your home in upcoming winter: no way! Greek Finance Ministry issued a statement dismissing media claims that the special tax imposed on heating oil in 2012 would be decreased in upcoming winter.“There is no such issue,” the Greek FinMin statement said on Monday.
Of course, there is no such issue. The government would not even dare to make such a proposal to the Troika especially after the failure of the Value Added Tax reduction in catering services. Less than 25% of restaurant, tavern and cafeteria owners participate in the program “lower VAT, lower prices”. The measure was meant in order to boost consumption through lowering the V.A.T from 23% down to 13% and consequently the prices.
PS best method to come through a cold winter without heating is swimming in open sea also in winter months. At least till end of December. I told you so last winter, remember?
Deputy FinMin Staikouras admits: “Greek debt is not sustainable”
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy
SSSS-U-rrr-P-R-I-S-E! Greek deputy finance minister Christos Staikouras admitted that “the Greek debt is not sustainable and its relief will require negotiation.” In an interview to weekly Parapolitika, Staikouras said:“The public debt has been gaining strong increasing dynamics, whether in absolute levels or in relation to GDP, the debt is high. It is true that the strong increasing dynamics has its roots in the 1980′s.Christos Staikouras expressed the hope that the government will be able to negotiate with partners and lenders the easing of the debt. (Parapolitika via news247.gr)
It is also true that during the decades that followed the annual growth rate decreased but a radical halt of this dynamics did not take place.”
Staikouras’ sincere and open acknowledgement about the sustainability of the Greek debt comes as a surprise … Especially for Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras who recently claimed that ‘if we have hope the Greek program will succeed.” Staikouras statement must also be a surprise for prime minister Antonis Samaras and his success story campaign.
Christos Staikouras is a member of Samaras’ Nea Dimocratia.
* the 1980s was the socialist PASOK ruling decade.
PS meanwhile mean Greeks are awaiting for a ‘correction statement’ to be issued by Staikouras’ office saying ‘the ministers’ statement was misunderstood…”
did not reach a radical opposition of this dynamic, “says Mr. Staikouras and expresses the hope that the government will be able to negotiate with partners and lenders to ease debt .
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