The international lenders are playing a dirty game over bank recapitalisations; A Greek pole-vaulter takes gold; the ‘river’ – a new political party – is seeking to sweep away traditional forces of politics; the IMF launches a new attack on workers’ rights; and the Mytilineos Group secures electrical energy at prices below cost.

ETHNOS (Sunday)
 
The unknown war of the banks
 

While international investors appear willing to inject 6 billion euros into the banks, the IMF and European Commission, at times disagreeing over the level of capital requirements, while at others over the way in which they should be covered, are depriving Greece of a total tranche worth 15.5 billion euros. Using the four systemic banks as an ‘easy target’ the lenders are resorting to ‘dark’ games.

TA NEA

Filippidis: stubborn, airborne and golden
 

The Greek “king of the aether” Kostas Filippidis took gold in pole-vaulting at the World Indoor Track and Field Championships with a jump clearing 5.80 meters. He said that in spite of the difficulties he has faced he never considered quitting. 

PROTO THEMA

Swept away by the ‘River’

Stavros Theodorakis: “I can walk amongst the people, can the others?”

[‘To Potami’ (English: the river) is the name of a new political party established by well-known TV and print journalist Stavros Theodorakis that had its founding congress last week and amounts to a new challenge to mainstream political forces]

The new ‘Potami’ party is threatening to drown PASOK, with Venizelos one of Theodorakis's viewers.

DIMAR is caught in a whirlpool, while SYRIZA is also getting soaked.

  • ‘Politics for All’ is the slogan of the new party
  • Internal polls give the party up to double digit levels of support
  • 80% of its supporters are women
  • The party releases a manifesto that is 100 Q&As 

EFIMERIDA TON SYNTAKTON
 
IMplosion For worker rights
 
They are demanding the elimination of all remaining rights

The entirety of labour issues have been opened by the troika and specifically the representative of the IMF, Poul Thomsen. They linked the issue of changes to mass layoffs as well as the minimum wage with the elimination of all worker benefits (eg bonus payments for workers with children, for workers in dangerous environments, for education etc.)  
Essentially they are demanding a minimum wage (worth 586 euros) and personal contracts for workers. 

KYRIAKATIKI ELEFTHEROTYPIA (Sunday)

Buying low and selling high

Mytilineos is doing alright versus the Public Power Corporation

Following the decision of the Court of Arbitration which ruled in favour of The *Mytilineos Group's practice of ‘billing electrical energy at below cost,’ the government forced the PPC to shoulder the cost of the cheap energy provided to the industrial conglomerate. ‘K.E.’ presents all of the favourable measures and laws ‘achieved’ over the years by The Mytilineos Group from recent governments to highlight not only the level of damage to the PPC itself but the future threat to the ransacked pocket of the consumer.   

[Mytilineos Group is an industrial conglomerate active in the sectors of metallurgy (particularly aluminium production), energy and public work contracts.]