Friday, June 3, 2011
Athens Newspaper Headlines - Friday
The negotiations with the EU-IMF troika, a letter to the premier by 16 MPs of his ruling PASOK party and the Indignants movement were the main front-page items in Friday's dailies.
ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "16 PASOK MPs 'rebel' against government".
AVGHI: "PASOK cracking at the seams".
AVRIANI: "They threw stones at MPs".
DIMOKRATIA: "Panic - The MAT (riot) police saved Petalotis (government spokesman)" who was trapped by protestors as he was speaking at a senior citizens' center (KAPI) in Argyroupolis.
ELEFTHEROS: "Uprising of 16 PASOK MPs against Papandreou".
ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "MPs' ultimatum to Papandreou with 3 conditions".
ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "Tax-fraud with the (illegally enclosed) semi-enclosed spaces".
ESTIA: "Taxes and more taxes without a prospect".
ETHNOS: "Turbulence at the 'last minute' before the agreement with troika".
IMERISSIA: "Green light for the new loan - EU and IMF give 65 billion euros up to 2014".
KATHIMERINI: "New Memorandum brings rifts in PASOK".
LOGOS: "The measures 'lock in' today".
NAFTEMPORIKI: "Three-year bailout agreement and parliamentary 'crack'."
NIKI: "Tempest".
RIZOSPASTIS: "Regime of modern-day slavery for the new workers".
TA NEA: "Letters of agony and outbursts of violence".
VRADYNI: "30,000 households with electricity turned off (because they couldn't pay the bill)".
ANA-MPA