MP presses Leveson for answers over the inquiry lawyers' affair
Source: Mail Online UK
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-04-29 18:13:15 -0700 | political-news
29 April 2013 Lord Justice Leveson is facing fresh questions over his refusal to investigate an affair between a member of his legal team and a lawyer representing phone hacking victims. A Conservative MP has written to the judge, who...
Greece to lay off 15,000 civil servants
Posted by: Jennifer Rees
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-05-24 02:32:40 -0700 | political-news
The Greek parliament Sunday approved a law that paves the way for laying off 15,000 civil servants as part of the bailout package worth $11.5 billion pledged for Greece by international creditors. The legislation cleared the way for firing the...
Greek parliament has cut 15 thousand civil servants
Posted by: rsa76
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-04-29 00:46:19 -0700 | political-news
To prevent a default, the Greek government had to agree to the terms of the international troika of creditors and leave thousands of its citizens out of work. This is one of the conditions of the loan to Athens at...
Greek parliament passes civil service reforms' 15000 job cuts are expected
Posted by: silent_communication
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-05-01 19:34:06 -0700 | political-news
The Greek parliament has passed a bill which will see 15,000 state employees lose their jobs by the end of next year. Greece’s Parliament approved an emergency bill Sunday to pave the way for thousands of public sector layoffs and...
Greece to cut 15,000 civil servants
Source: CNN
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-04-29 00:46:46 -0700 | political-news
The vote clears the way for 15,000 civil servants to be fired by the end of 2014, the first time Greece's cash-strapped government has said it will cut workers. The goal of the measure is to cut the country's budget...
Life of city lost under the waves is revealed
Source: The New Zealand Herald
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-04-28 12:14:04 -0700 | political-news
In fact, Heracleion was real, and a decade after divers began uncovering its treasures, archaeologists have produced a picture of what life was like in the city in the age of the pharaohs. The city, also called Thonis, disappeared beneath...
Thousands of Greek civil jobs to be axed as parliament vote looms
Source: Russia Today
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-04-28 02:39:48 -0700 | political-news
The bill also includes staff being fired for corruption or incompetence, while others being pensioned off, and some being dismissed as state entities they are working for are being eliminated. The new law will also make it easier to fire...
COMMUNITY COMMENT: Discredited study behind fiscal conservatives' push for cuts
Source: Courier & Press
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-04-27 22:11:49 -0700 | political-news
Since the Great Recession, those who use our federal debt and deficits as a reason to shrink government read that spending, particularly on our social and health programs have used a Harvard study which said that federal debt over 90...
Europe's guns, debt and corruption
Source: Open Democracy
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-04-27 08:36:57 -0700 | political-news
As social infrastructure is being slashed throughout most of Europe, spending on weapon systems has hardly been reduced. Perversely, military lobbyists warn of 'disaster' if any further cuts are made to military spending. But the real disaster has emerged from...
Roll up, get your piece of Greece
Source: The New Zealand Herald
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-04-26 14:23:47 -0700 | political-news
From pristine beaches to palaces, entire islands and its London embassy, a nation in crisis is selling its assets...As George Georgas drives his golf buggy along the seafront, the sprightly 80-year-old muses on why this is the best stretch of...
Greece starts firing civil servants for first time in a century
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-04-26 13:14:49 -0700 | political-news
ments Greece starts firing civil servants for first time in a century The Greek government began its first mass-firing of public-sector workers in more than 100 years this week, part of an effort to lay off 180,000 by 2015 under...
NGOs: Violent racist attacks increase in Greece
Source: Boston.com
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-04-24 09:26:20 -0700 | political-news
Greece (AP) The number of racially motivated attacks increased in Greece last year, as did the severity of the violence involved, human rights groups said Wednesday. The incidents have spiraled as Greece's economy has worsened over the past few years....
Why we wear rosemary today
Source: The Australian
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-04-24 08:15:49 -0700 | political-news
Rosemary has long featured in Anzac Day ceremonies, pinned to the lapels and collars of servicemen and school children alike. While it's unclear when rosemary was first worn, Anzac Day was first observed on 25 April 1916 , and the...
Spoof Sun holiday contest keeps up the pressure on 'Leveson lovers'
Source: The Guardian
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-04-24 03:30:30 -0700 | political-news
The stories and commentaries in The Sun , Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph have implied that the liaison between the inquiry's junior counsel, Carine Patry Hoskins, and the barrister who represented several press "victims", David Sherborne, somehow influenced Lord Justice...
Brian Rudman: Shearer electrifying free-market debate
Source: New Zealand Herald
Athens :: Greece | updated 2013-04-23 15:12:40 -0700 | political-news
Bland, colourless Labour leader David Shearer has suddenly been transmogrified into a working-class hero. At a single stroke he's tossed an exploding pressure-cooker into the middle of the electricity part-privatisation process, promised everyone cheaper electricity, and left his right-wing...
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