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DIMOKRATIA

More of the same: Measures, no questions asked

Servaas Deroose (EC) counted on that when he testified in European Parliament*

1000 immediate dismissals from defense industries without the parliament’s approval

*Last week troika said that its trip in Athens would be postponed because the parties had been unable to bridge differences over how to plug a 2-billion-euro hole in Greece's 2014 budget. Finally inspectors from Greece's lenders have put the postponed visit to the country back on the agenda, after Athens made a new proposal on filling the gap in the 2014 budget.

KATHIMERINI

Serious delays in privatization process

Troika, meeting the administrators of Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund, expressed its dissatisfaction for the delay on the privatization process. Although it was agreed in July that Port of Athens, Port of Thessaloniki, Hellenic Post and Electricity Company must be privatized, no one of them have yet.

ETHNOS

SYRIZA: “Shift to realism” brings “turbulence”

Alexis Tsipras’ statement that exit from Eurozone would be disastrous provoked the reaction by party’s internal opposition. Voices calling for return to the national currency are becoming louder once again.

Here you can watch Tsipras’ statement as well as the whole speech he gave at LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas.

AVGI

Berlin Institute IFO: Germany’s welfare, distress for the South

As German economy grows, the economic gap in Europe between North and South deepens, according to Institute IFO in Berlin.  It also notes that the situation in the countries of the European South remains in “crisis levels”. At the same time financial indicators worsen in Ireland, Slovenia and Netherlands. 
 

EFIMERIDA TON SYNTAKTON

OUSTED!
Owners and renters at a dead end: 1. Unbearable taxation; 2. Rise of evictions; 3. Properties auctioned
Heavy property taxation is a ticking time bomb in households; Upcoming lift of protection of homes from auction; evictions for those who can’t pay their rent – up 30 per cent in the last two years

He shot himself after he was evicted from his house
A 74 year-old man from Chania, Crete attempted to kill himself when the bailiff knocked his door in order to serve him the court order.