SPORT DAY (Monday)

Don’t cry, Greece!

For the first time we made it to the final 16 of the World Cup, we made it to penalties and fell like heroes!

Costa RIca 1 – 1 Greece (5-3 pen.)

ETHNOS (Sunday)

Ten Bombshells at the foundations of the budget

The appeals that are pending at the upper courts and the government's plan to react.

The government faces court rulings which potentially may upend the Finance Ministry's plans at the same time that it is searching for ways to gradually begin easing taxation on some sectors.

Thirty appeals which have been submitted against measures that have been taken over the past four years are awaiting judgement on the part of the upper courts. The 'cost' of the ten most important is believed to reach 20 billion euros.

TO CHONI (Sunday)

19 euro per diem wages forever!

We will live (?) for a lifetime on the same basic salary of crumbs!

What the IMF report reveals! The new system of lowest wage which rips up every notion of labour rights and right to a dignified quality of life: with 490 euros net per month we will be hired… that is also what we will get after 30, 35, 40 years of work… forever (if they don't reduce it further!)

These are not projections, speculations or forecasts. This is what they have already passed but are not telling us:

A minimum wage without automatic pay-rises. All benefits are being eliminated. The concept of prior work is being eliminated (until unemployment falls below 10%)! So, until never!

They are preparing a Greece where: minimum wage will continue its free fall. Wages will be 'Bulgarianized'. Three year contracts will be eliminated. Collective contracts and unions will be eliminated!

EFIMERIDA TON SYNTAKTON (Monday)

Maximum punishment prisons


Today doctors are to examine prisoners on hunger strike

Neither memoranda nor financial measures are forcing the Justice Ministry to return the correctional system to the middle ages.

The extreme punitive handling of inmates has caused unrest in the country's prisons. Prisoners are engaging in a hard hunger strikes with the demand that the draft prison law be withdrawn, while PASOK has submitted a package of ten proposals.

KATHIMERINI (Sunday)

Paul Kazarian of Japonica Partners: “Why I bought Greek debt”

The Maastricht numbers for Greek debt “do not have any bearing on reality” stresses Paul Kazarian, head of Japonica Partners. Speaking to 'K' the American investor and major holder of Greek bonds states that the country's European partners potentially know that the real debt is much lower an for that reason hesitate to agree on a new reduction.