Sunday, April 3, 2011

Athens' Sunday newspapers at a glance

The economy and imminent arrival of a European Commission (EC
), European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) 'troika' team of inspectors were the main front-page items in Athens' Sunday newspapers.

   

    APOKALIPSEIS: "Bankruptcy: One step closer".

   

    AVGHI: "Change of page needed - Failure of Memorandum less than a year after its introduction concludes a circle of harsh economic policy and exhausts society's limits".

   

    AVRIANI: "Government of national salvation, without a single politician".

   

    CHORA: "Stricter criteria for rent subsidy".

   

    ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "8 billion euros bomb razes salaries, pensions, benefits and...Papaconstantinou".

   

    ELEFTHEROTYPIA: " 'No pay' virus in government".

   

    EPOCHI: "Radioactive Iodine-131 in Greece and Europe".

   

    ETHNOS: "Where the money is going... - Secret salary increases and special benefits in certain public services continue."

   

    KATHIMERINI: "Implementation of the Memorandum demands up in the air".

   

    LOGOS: "Government sewing new 'suit' for us".

   

    NIKI: "More expensive loan payments".

   

    PARASKINIO: "Louka Katseli (employment minister): I insist on transparency in and the accountability of the banks".

   

    PARON: "PASOK turns against Papandreou".

   

    PROTO THEMA: "What the 'Express Service minister' (finance minister Papaconstantinou) is hiding - Raptopoulos (Express Service road assistance company owner) owes 133 million euros to IKA (the state's troubled Social Security Foundation) and hasn't made payments in 20 years".

   

    RIZOSPASTIS: "Governmental measures bring hell to the life of the people and the youth".

   

    TO VIMA: "We want to save you, but can you? - Trichet and Van Rompuy to visit Greece to back the changes".

   

    VRADYNI: "The reductions in salaries, doctors', security corps' and judges' salaries".









source: ANA-MPA