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| Greece braces for a day of strikes, starting at airports | |
| 2010-02-10 | |
| Starting at midnight local time on Tuesday, all Greek airports were set to come to a halt in response to a call for a walkout by civil aviation workers. They plan to join civil servants' strike the next day over budget cuts. All incoming and outgoing flights will be disrupted as of Wednesday, DPA reported. The walkout is in protest against the government's plans to adopt strict austerity measures, including wage freezes and bonus cuts, which will affect the country's schools, hospitals, and government offices.
Greece's financial credibility has taken a battering since last October as the deficit has hit 12.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). For one month now, the country's farmers have been demanding subsidies and have been blocking major roads across the country as a sign of protest, but to no avail. On Tuesday, the Greek government started debates on austerity measures, including pension and wage reform, raising the retirement age from 61 to 63, and banning early retirement. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 The Greek branch of the Free Lunch Party International vibrantly expresses the Will of the People. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-02-10 14:25 |
| #6 Besoeker I think that the Greeks did that, along with every other funny accounting trick they could find and finally ran out of tricks and money. The EU statistical office apparently found that they've been lying thorugh their teeth for years and years about the deficit. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2010-02-10 13:20 |
| #5 Well, that's one way to keep the tourists from leaving. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-02-10 08:13 |
| #4 The Greek gov't could have simply buggered their Consumer Price Index (CPI) calculations, then quietly suspended pensioners annual COLA raises for the next....5-10 years. What were they thinking. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-02-10 07:02 |
| #3 And no doubt OBumble is going to give it to them. I can't imagine a single thing someone who is bound and determined to destroy America would have done differently than what Obama is doing. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-02-10 00:42 |
| #2 Airport strikes...sort of what Obama's TSA nominee was advocating, no? Unionization....just what a country needs, |
| Posted by: Jack Salami 2010-02-10 00:38 |
| #1 You are broke you bozos. Deal with it. We will be soon to... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-02-10 00:31 |