ΚΑΤΗΙΜΕΡΙΝΙ

 

Civil Servants Fired Three Years After Murder Convictions

It was only yesterday, following three years of delays, that the two civil servants convicted of the 2009 murder of the mayor of Paggaio, Triantafyllos Koukoudis, were finally fired. Despite receiving the two receiving sentences of imprisonment for life and for 17 years respectively, the former municipal workers had still been receiving 50% of their salaries. That was until yesterday when the current mayor of Paggaio, Vassilis Xyloglou sealed the termination of their employment.

 
 
 

ETHNOS

Open The Universities

The strike of administrative staff is pushing the University of Athens and Athens Polytechnic to the brink. Educators, students and parents are desperate, calling for the universities be opened and accessible to students and teaching staff.

 
 

ELEFTHEROTYPIA

Unpaid For Three Months – And Legally!

Two new employment contracts will open a Pandora’s box of consequences as they effectively do away with, among other things, the requirement for employers to pay workers on a monthly basis. The employers will now be allowed to pay their workers up to three months later, a revision which will likely trigger a further feudalisation of the labour market. This change was made by two companies, both in the security industry, with one of the contracts already approved by the Ministry of Employment.

 
 

EFIMERIDA TON SYNTAKTON

A Requiem For The Middle Class

More than 2.5 million now below poverty line while rich get richer during crisis

The middle and working classes face a bleak economic times having been hit hardest by memorandum policies. According to statistics presented by Parliament’s Budgetary Office, official numbers regarding poverty have been sanitized, with the real situation being much worse.
The so called “despair index” has more than doubled from the pre-crisis level of 0.19 to 0.40 today. Today the richest 20% of Greeks are 7 times richer than the poorest 20%, whereas prior to the crisis they were ‘only’ 5 times richer.

 
 

GOAL

World Class!

The music carries on as Greece will be in the World Cup Finals in Brazil – just as it was in South Africa, and just as it was in Euros 2004, 2008 and 2012!

We scored the goal we wanted – and one we didn’t – but the 1-1 draw against the Romanians in Bucharest was not enough to take the ticket to Rio from our grasp!

* The two leaders of the Greek national team, Giorgos Karagounis and Kostas Katsouranis, are the only players who remain in the squad from the legendary team that became European champions in 2004. The World Cup Finals in Brazil will be their fifth major tournament following the European Cups of 2004, 2008 and 2012 and the World Cup Finals of 2010, and will be a fitting end to their brilliant careers with the national team. A national team that prior to 2004 had only ever qualified for the European Cup in 1980 and the World Cup in 1994.