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ND takes lead over ruling PASOK in latest poll
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) has overtaken the ruling PASOK party in voter preference, according to a 'Public Issue' opinion poll published by the newspaper "Kathimerini" on Saturday.
Based on its findings, ND is now in the lead with 31 percent, PASOK follows with 27 percent, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has 11 percent, the Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) 8 percent, the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) 6.5 percent, the Ecologists-Greens with 3.5 percent, the Democratic Left with 3 percent and the Democratic Alliance with 2.5 percent.
The 'winner' is actually abstention, with 38 percent of those asked saying they would not turn out for the next elections.
Only one if four people believe the government will reach the end of its four-year term while the popularity of Prime Minister George Papandreou is in decline. Asked who was most suitable for premier, both Papandreou and main opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras received 23 percent of the vote and 55 percent of those asked voted for neither.
Nearly three quarters (74 percent) believe that neither PASOK nor ND are capable of governing the country properly and 59 percent believe that snap elections are unnecessary at the present time.
An overwhelming majority of 82 percent said they were not satisfied with their lives and an even larger majority of 87 percent believes the country is moving in the wrong direction.
(ana.gr)
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) has overtaken the ruling PASOK party in voter preference, according to a 'Public Issue' opinion poll published by the newspaper "Kathimerini" on Saturday.
Based on its findings, ND is now in the lead with 31 percent, PASOK follows with 27 percent, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has 11 percent, the Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) 8 percent, the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) 6.5 percent, the Ecologists-Greens with 3.5 percent, the Democratic Left with 3 percent and the Democratic Alliance with 2.5 percent.
The 'winner' is actually abstention, with 38 percent of those asked saying they would not turn out for the next elections.
Only one if four people believe the government will reach the end of its four-year term while the popularity of Prime Minister George Papandreou is in decline. Asked who was most suitable for premier, both Papandreou and main opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras received 23 percent of the vote and 55 percent of those asked voted for neither.
Nearly three quarters (74 percent) believe that neither PASOK nor ND are capable of governing the country properly and 59 percent believe that snap elections are unnecessary at the present time.
An overwhelming majority of 82 percent said they were not satisfied with their lives and an even larger majority of 87 percent believes the country is moving in the wrong direction.
(ana.gr)
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PM: 'No doubts, only determination'
Just hours after announcing the measures of the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy, Prime Minister George Papandreou underlined in an interview with the local newspaper "To Vima" on Saturday that he had no doubts or dilemma about making the necessary changes, "only determination that Greek families will never have to live with the consequences of default".
He also stressed that if there had been any other choice, he would have taken it.
"I wouldn't wish what I am going through on my worst enemy. In war you also make mistakes. You are wounded, you bleed, you may lose battles. But the requirement is that you win the war for saving and changing the country. But we will win the war," he stated.
Anyone claiming that the country could escape such a crisis in an easy, painless manner was probably unaware of its size and depth, he added.
Questioned about the attacks on Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, Papandreou underlined that decisions were taken by the government collectively. To those criticising the premier for his choice of people to work with, he replied that his only criteria were how to best promote the public interest.
Defending the government's work, the prime minister said some people seem not to have understood that in the past months he had been striving to impose a new culture of dialogue and debate on all levels.
"I do not like collective organs such as the cabinet to be sidelined with 'operetta-style' meetings lasting a few minutes, as was the case with the previous government. I want to listen to everyone and for them to listen to me. In the end we take well founded decisions, historic decisions," he replied.
In yet another overture to the opposition parties for consensus, he noted that he had not ruled out putting persons of broad acceptance, or even came from other parties, in crucial positions.
Papandreou rejected the idea of seeking an enhanced majority vote of 180 MPs for the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy and repeated his invitation to the opposition for national consensus.
"We political forces must send a message that we have understood what is at stake for our country," he said, while expressing understanding for those that joined the daily protests outside Parliament.
According to the prime minister, they were right to be angry since they could not tolerate a political system that had led to waste and corruption.
(ana.gr)
Just hours after announcing the measures of the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy, Prime Minister George Papandreou underlined in an interview with the local newspaper "To Vima" on Saturday that he had no doubts or dilemma about making the necessary changes, "only determination that Greek families will never have to live with the consequences of default".
He also stressed that if there had been any other choice, he would have taken it.
"I wouldn't wish what I am going through on my worst enemy. In war you also make mistakes. You are wounded, you bleed, you may lose battles. But the requirement is that you win the war for saving and changing the country. But we will win the war," he stated.
Anyone claiming that the country could escape such a crisis in an easy, painless manner was probably unaware of its size and depth, he added.
Questioned about the attacks on Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, Papandreou underlined that decisions were taken by the government collectively. To those criticising the premier for his choice of people to work with, he replied that his only criteria were how to best promote the public interest.
Defending the government's work, the prime minister said some people seem not to have understood that in the past months he had been striving to impose a new culture of dialogue and debate on all levels.
"I do not like collective organs such as the cabinet to be sidelined with 'operetta-style' meetings lasting a few minutes, as was the case with the previous government. I want to listen to everyone and for them to listen to me. In the end we take well founded decisions, historic decisions," he replied.
In yet another overture to the opposition parties for consensus, he noted that he had not ruled out putting persons of broad acceptance, or even came from other parties, in crucial positions.
Papandreou rejected the idea of seeking an enhanced majority vote of 180 MPs for the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy and repeated his invitation to the opposition for national consensus.
"We political forces must send a message that we have understood what is at stake for our country," he said, while expressing understanding for those that joined the daily protests outside Parliament.
According to the prime minister, they were right to be angry since they could not tolerate a political system that had led to waste and corruption.
(ana.gr)
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I TITOLI DEI GIORNALI:
The economic measures outlined in the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy programme and the prime minister's appeal to the political parties for consensus mostly dominated the headlines in Saturday's dailies.
ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Sweeping taxes-levies for all".
AVGHI: "Everything to stay in power - Cynical [Prime Minister George Papandreou] in address".
AVRIANI: "Now he's asking for shared guilt".
DIMOKRATIA: "Gaddafi to George: 10 billion dollars for me to go. The ...'peace plan' to facilitate a departure from Libya"
ELEFTHERI ORA: "Citizen's Card obligatory".
ELEFTHEROS: "Performance by George in Parliament - he impersonated Nikos Xanthopoulos" (reference to well-known 60s film actor famous for his work in melodrama)
ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "Medium-Term Programme: 40 measures by 2015"
ESTIA: "Unrelenting tax raid"
ETHNOS: "Six Richter social earthquake - The bill for the 'black term' for all Greeks".
IMERISSIA: "The life of Greeks is changing - poorer under the threat of default".
KATHIMERINI: "Reduction of wages, positions in the public sector".
LOGOS: "Appeal for cooperation".
NAFTEMPORIKI: "The 'day after' brings new, hidden payments"
NIKI TIS DIMOKRATIAS: "10,000 fewer entrants in universities/technical colleges".
PRESS TIME: "They are threatening not to vote for it - the rebels of the Memorandum"
RIZOSPASTIS: "Alert to save the people, not capitalism".
STO KARFI: "30 billion here and now - Obama support to Papandreou"
TA NEA: "The price list of the tax raid".
VRADYNI: "Reduction of pensions by up to 30 percent".
(ana.gr)
The economic measures outlined in the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy programme and the prime minister's appeal to the political parties for consensus mostly dominated the headlines in Saturday's dailies.
ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Sweeping taxes-levies for all".
AVGHI: "Everything to stay in power - Cynical [Prime Minister George Papandreou] in address".
AVRIANI: "Now he's asking for shared guilt".
DIMOKRATIA: "Gaddafi to George: 10 billion dollars for me to go. The ...'peace plan' to facilitate a departure from Libya"
ELEFTHERI ORA: "Citizen's Card obligatory".
ELEFTHEROS: "Performance by George in Parliament - he impersonated Nikos Xanthopoulos" (reference to well-known 60s film actor famous for his work in melodrama)
ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "Medium-Term Programme: 40 measures by 2015"
ESTIA: "Unrelenting tax raid"
ETHNOS: "Six Richter social earthquake - The bill for the 'black term' for all Greeks".
IMERISSIA: "The life of Greeks is changing - poorer under the threat of default".
KATHIMERINI: "Reduction of wages, positions in the public sector".
LOGOS: "Appeal for cooperation".
NAFTEMPORIKI: "The 'day after' brings new, hidden payments"
NIKI TIS DIMOKRATIAS: "10,000 fewer entrants in universities/technical colleges".
PRESS TIME: "They are threatening not to vote for it - the rebels of the Memorandum"
RIZOSPASTIS: "Alert to save the people, not capitalism".
STO KARFI: "30 billion here and now - Obama support to Papandreou"
TA NEA: "The price list of the tax raid".
VRADYNI: "Reduction of pensions by up to 30 percent".
(ana.gr)
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PM seeks backing on new measures
Papandreou makes third attempt at consensus but opposition parties appear unmoved
Prime Minister George Papandreou made a third attempt to secure a broad political consensus on his administration’s ongoing austerity drive on Friday, calling on the leaders of all opposition parties to offer their proposals following the unveiling of the government’s midterm fiscal program, which foresees new tax increases and deep cuts to the public sector.
“I call again on the leadership of all parties to cooperate,” Papandreou said in a televised speech from the Maximos Mansion.
“We must show that we are able to overcome party divisions,” the premier said, noting that cross-party cooperation would boost Greece’s position in talks with the European Union and International Monetary Fund, which last year pledged the country 110 billion euros in loans and are now discussing the possibility of a second bailout package.
Referring to a scheduled European Union summit in Brussels on June 23 and 24, where the issue of a second bailout for Athens is to be discussed, Papandreou said that Greece should display a united front. “If we go to the negotiations with a program that has been broadly accepted, our position will be stronger and act as a guarantee to our partners,” he said.
The premier said the government is open to all viable proposals that “can contribute to the fairer distribution of the burdens of this crisis.”
Papandreou sought to strike an optimistic tone, noting that there were already “several points of convergence” between the different parties.
There was little evidence of common ground yesterday. A spokesman for New Democracy, Yiannis Michelakis, condemned the midterm program as “unreliable, unfair and ineffective” and said the new raft of tax hikes was unacceptable.
The Communist Party (KKE) accused the government, and its foreign creditors, of “throwing the Greek people deeper into the abyss of bankruptcy.”
The Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) described the midterm program as “a clear admission of the failure of the first memorandum,” a reference to the pact signed between Greece and its international creditors in May last year.
The leader of the far-right Popular Orthodox Rally, Giorgos Karatzaferis, whose party voted for the memorandum last year, slammed Papandreou in Parliament. ”We will support nothing proposed by this government, which failed with the simple task last year and now is called to tackle an even more difficult task,” Karatzaferis said.
ekathimerini.com , Friday June 10, 2011 (22:03)
Papandreou makes third attempt at consensus but opposition parties appear unmoved
Prime Minister George Papandreou made a third attempt to secure a broad political consensus on his administration’s ongoing austerity drive on Friday, calling on the leaders of all opposition parties to offer their proposals following the unveiling of the government’s midterm fiscal program, which foresees new tax increases and deep cuts to the public sector.
“I call again on the leadership of all parties to cooperate,” Papandreou said in a televised speech from the Maximos Mansion.
“We must show that we are able to overcome party divisions,” the premier said, noting that cross-party cooperation would boost Greece’s position in talks with the European Union and International Monetary Fund, which last year pledged the country 110 billion euros in loans and are now discussing the possibility of a second bailout package.
Referring to a scheduled European Union summit in Brussels on June 23 and 24, where the issue of a second bailout for Athens is to be discussed, Papandreou said that Greece should display a united front. “If we go to the negotiations with a program that has been broadly accepted, our position will be stronger and act as a guarantee to our partners,” he said.
The premier said the government is open to all viable proposals that “can contribute to the fairer distribution of the burdens of this crisis.”
Papandreou sought to strike an optimistic tone, noting that there were already “several points of convergence” between the different parties.
There was little evidence of common ground yesterday. A spokesman for New Democracy, Yiannis Michelakis, condemned the midterm program as “unreliable, unfair and ineffective” and said the new raft of tax hikes was unacceptable.
The Communist Party (KKE) accused the government, and its foreign creditors, of “throwing the Greek people deeper into the abyss of bankruptcy.”
The Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) described the midterm program as “a clear admission of the failure of the first memorandum,” a reference to the pact signed between Greece and its international creditors in May last year.
The leader of the far-right Popular Orthodox Rally, Giorgos Karatzaferis, whose party voted for the memorandum last year, slammed Papandreou in Parliament. ”We will support nothing proposed by this government, which failed with the simple task last year and now is called to tackle an even more difficult task,” Karatzaferis said.
ekathimerini.com , Friday June 10, 2011 (22:03)
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Opposition MP calls for cuts
Key New Democracy deputy proposes reduction in deputies, privileges
New Democracy lawmaker Kyriakos Mitsotakis has sent out an open letter to all MPs, calling for a reduction in the number of deputies in Parliament and for MPs to give up certain benefits as part of spending cuts.
In a letter sent out on Friday, Mitsotakis proposed three changes - firstly that the number of MPs in Parliament be reduced to 200 from 300, secondly the abolition of a parliamentary pension (in addition to the pension MPs get from their professional fund) and thirdly the abolition of the additional payments given to deputies who head parliamentary committees.
Mitsotakis is the head of Parliament's environmental affairs committee.
ekathimerini.com , Friday June 10, 2011 (22:12)
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Key New Democracy deputy proposes reduction in deputies, privileges
In a letter sent out on Friday, Mitsotakis proposed three changes - firstly that the number of MPs in Parliament be reduced to 200 from 300, secondly the abolition of a parliamentary pension (in addition to the pension MPs get from their professional fund) and thirdly the abolition of the additional payments given to deputies who head parliamentary committees.
Mitsotakis is the head of Parliament's environmental affairs committee.
ekathimerini.com , Friday June 10, 2011 (22:12)
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Greece to lose 150,000 civil servants by 2015
Salary cuts will also be applied as part of cost-cutting measures
Greece will shed some 150,000 jobs in the public sector, long seen as an unwieldy burden on the country’s finances, by 2015 as part of the medium-term fiscal plan presented in detail by Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou on Friday.
According to the government’s plans, the reduction in the number of state sector employees, along with other cuts, will lead to savings of 1.3 billion euros this year and almost 4 billion by 2015.
Papaconstantinou said that a law to be tabled soon would abolish public bodies that no longer serve a purpose. The government will also begin evaluating civil servants with the aim of firing those not deemed up to the job. There are also going to be adjustments to the salaries of public sector workers, who have already had their wages cut by more than 20 percent since last year.
A new wage structure, which will be applied across all departments, is to be passed into law this summer. The new law will also introduce performance-related pay and set salaries for the different positions in the public sector in line with the private sector. So a clerk in the civil service will earn the same wage as one in the private sector, for instance.
Bureaucrats will also lose bonuses for those who are married although public servants with children will continue to receive additional pay. A 40-hour working week, rather than the current 37.5 hours, will also be introduced.
Crucially, the government also committed to only hiring one new public servant for every 10 that leave or retire as a way of reducing their numbers. However, this has already caused friction with Citizens’ Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis, who does not want the measure to apply to the police force or coast guard.
ekathimerini.com , Friday June 10, 2011 (22:21)
Salary cuts will also be applied as part of cost-cutting measures
According to the government’s plans, the reduction in the number of state sector employees, along with other cuts, will lead to savings of 1.3 billion euros this year and almost 4 billion by 2015.
Papaconstantinou said that a law to be tabled soon would abolish public bodies that no longer serve a purpose. The government will also begin evaluating civil servants with the aim of firing those not deemed up to the job. There are also going to be adjustments to the salaries of public sector workers, who have already had their wages cut by more than 20 percent since last year.
A new wage structure, which will be applied across all departments, is to be passed into law this summer. The new law will also introduce performance-related pay and set salaries for the different positions in the public sector in line with the private sector. So a clerk in the civil service will earn the same wage as one in the private sector, for instance.
Bureaucrats will also lose bonuses for those who are married although public servants with children will continue to receive additional pay. A 40-hour working week, rather than the current 37.5 hours, will also be introduced.
Crucially, the government also committed to only hiring one new public servant for every 10 that leave or retire as a way of reducing their numbers. However, this has already caused friction with Citizens’ Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis, who does not want the measure to apply to the police force or coast guard.
ekathimerini.com , Friday June 10, 2011 (22:21)
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Irish Minister Supports Germany's Debt Plan for Greece
By EAMON QUINN
DUBLIN—Ireland supports "behind the scenes" efforts by the German government that is working toward some sort of soft restructuring of Greek debts, a senior Irish government minister said Saturday.
Pat Rabitte, minister for communications in the new coalition that came to power in March, said that the views of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble in a leaked letter apparently favoring private sector involvement in restructuring Greece's debts "is a significant statement" reflecting "patient work behind the scenes."
And he welcomed comments Saturday by Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the group of countries using the euro as a common currency, that indebted Greece needed a soft and voluntary restructuring of its debts.
"We also had the letter leaked from Schäuble, the minister for finance in Germany, about the wider issue of the euro zone," Mr. Rabbitte told Irish broadcaster RTE Radio. "We are in a euro-zone difficulty and Schäuble's letter seems to indicate to me, to any extent, that the Germans want to see that addressed—that it is in the interest of their own economy."
Mr. Rabbitte—a former leader of the Labour Party that's now the junior partner in the new government—said Mr. Schäuble's letter "may" offer opportunities for Ireland to deal with its own debt crisis. But he urged the European Central Bank to soften its "entrenched" views on the debt crisis across the countries sharing the euro single currency.
"The stance of the ECB has been very entrenched and very, very difficult from the point of view from the entire threat to the euro," Mr. Rabbitte said. "The European Central Bank has to be more concerned about more than inflation—but the patient work going on behind the scenes looks like there is some way to go yet."
He also said he remained confident that Ireland would in time negotiate a lower interest rate on the near-6% interest rate it's paying for a €67.5 billion ($97 billion) bailout deal struck with the European Union and International Monetary Fund last November.
Comments by Prime Minister Enda Kenny to the Irish parliament Wednesday saying it is "unfair" certain European Union countries are blocking his new government's bid to secure a better deal from its bailout lenders were widely interpreted as him coming close to acknowledging his coalition's key election pledge is being overtaken by fast moving events in the euro debt crisis.
Mr. Kenny's new coalition government, which swept to power in March, has faced opposition from France in particular, which wants Ireland to increase its competitive 12.5% corporation tax rate in return for a lower rate on its bailout loans.
Mr. Rabbitte confirmed Saturday that any interest-rate reduction would apply only to the €47 billion of the €67 billion bailout Ireland is borrowing from various EU sources.
Amid its deep banking crisis, Ireland was forced to turn to a troika of lenders—the EU, IMF and ECB—when markets last year refused to lend the government and the Irish banks more money.
(The Wall Street Journal)
By EAMON QUINN
DUBLIN—Ireland supports "behind the scenes" efforts by the German government that is working toward some sort of soft restructuring of Greek debts, a senior Irish government minister said Saturday.
Pat Rabitte, minister for communications in the new coalition that came to power in March, said that the views of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble in a leaked letter apparently favoring private sector involvement in restructuring Greece's debts "is a significant statement" reflecting "patient work behind the scenes."
And he welcomed comments Saturday by Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the group of countries using the euro as a common currency, that indebted Greece needed a soft and voluntary restructuring of its debts.
"We also had the letter leaked from Schäuble, the minister for finance in Germany, about the wider issue of the euro zone," Mr. Rabbitte told Irish broadcaster RTE Radio. "We are in a euro-zone difficulty and Schäuble's letter seems to indicate to me, to any extent, that the Germans want to see that addressed—that it is in the interest of their own economy."
Mr. Rabbitte—a former leader of the Labour Party that's now the junior partner in the new government—said Mr. Schäuble's letter "may" offer opportunities for Ireland to deal with its own debt crisis. But he urged the European Central Bank to soften its "entrenched" views on the debt crisis across the countries sharing the euro single currency.
"The stance of the ECB has been very entrenched and very, very difficult from the point of view from the entire threat to the euro," Mr. Rabbitte said. "The European Central Bank has to be more concerned about more than inflation—but the patient work going on behind the scenes looks like there is some way to go yet."
He also said he remained confident that Ireland would in time negotiate a lower interest rate on the near-6% interest rate it's paying for a €67.5 billion ($97 billion) bailout deal struck with the European Union and International Monetary Fund last November.
Comments by Prime Minister Enda Kenny to the Irish parliament Wednesday saying it is "unfair" certain European Union countries are blocking his new government's bid to secure a better deal from its bailout lenders were widely interpreted as him coming close to acknowledging his coalition's key election pledge is being overtaken by fast moving events in the euro debt crisis.
Mr. Kenny's new coalition government, which swept to power in March, has faced opposition from France in particular, which wants Ireland to increase its competitive 12.5% corporation tax rate in return for a lower rate on its bailout loans.
Mr. Rabbitte confirmed Saturday that any interest-rate reduction would apply only to the €47 billion of the €67 billion bailout Ireland is borrowing from various EU sources.
Amid its deep banking crisis, Ireland was forced to turn to a troika of lenders—the EU, IMF and ECB—when markets last year refused to lend the government and the Irish banks more money.
(The Wall Street Journal)
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French agree to debt roll-over for Greece
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