Press Review April 7: A return to the markets at any cost

The government seeks to return to the markets at any cost for the Greek taxpayer; Golden Dawn threatens to release new damning videos; the neo-fascist party is brainwashing young children; the troika is demanding new pension cuts; and Greek parents pay a total of 1 billion euros a year to prepare their kids for university.

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7 Απριλίου 2014 | 10:14:21

	EFIMERIDA TON SYNTAKTON (Monday) A return to the markets at any cost for the government to get away from the Baltakos scandal: Evangelos Venizelos is Antonis Samaras’s crutch We will pay triple the interest rate of Spain, Italy and Portugal The government is indifferent to the high interest rates it will pay as its primary aim are pre-election gains. In the interest of PR games New Democracy and PASOK will burden citizens with interest payments equivalent to the ‘social dividend’ of 500 million euros. The return to the markets after four years will be an excellent opportunity for Angela Merkel to heap praise on PM Antonis Samaras for the successful impoverishment of the country with 1.5 million unemployed.
	REAL NEWS (Sunday) Golden Dawn was recording conversations for 6 months: Who they are threatening with new videos! “I will reveal conversations with other individuals,” GD spokesperson Ilias Kasidiaris tells Real News. Golden Dawn MP Mattheopoulos’s trip to Moscow and his agreement with the Russian fascists for the release of the material. Antonis Samaras to his advisers: “I have nothing to fear. Their attempt to blackmail the justice system will not work.”
	ETHNOS (Sunday) The Golden Dawn youth The photographs of children of Golden Dawn members which were found on the hard-drives of party officials provoke disgust. In the materials published by ‘Ethnos’ it is clear that Golden Dawn have arranged to recruit and brainwash young children with the aim of creating a generation steeped in the ideology of hate.
	ELEFTHEROTYPIA (Monday) Pension cuts for property owners! The troika’s demand from the autumn: linking pensions to income and real-estate ownership Fluctuating pensions, based on the Australian model, have been put back on the table by the teams of technocrats, as well as the troika itself, which is insistent in its demands for further reductions in state spending on pensions as a percentage of GDP. The proposal opens a pandora’s box as it links the amount received by pensioners with their income and real-estate assets and as such will cause pensions to rise and fall depending on the ‘profile’ of every pensioner, in line with the model adopted for supplementary pensions (with personal accounts). In our country income criteria only apply for the payment of social assistance for pensioners (EKAS).
	KATHIMERINI (Sunday) Parents pay 1 billion euros for university places Behind the struggle of young people for a ‘ticket’ to university are the significant financial sacrifices of their parents. It is estimated extra tutoring for high school alone [considered necessary for Greek students attempting to get into university] costs 14,000 euros. The total cost for parents in 2013 came to 1 billion euros.