Thursday, May 19, 2011

Athens Newspaper Headlines - Thursday


Speculated layoffs in wider public sector and the ceiling on pensions in Public Utilities and Organisations (DEKO), and banks' and government's movements towards a rapid privatisation, dominated the headlines in Athens' newspapers on Thursday.

  
 ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Government a tower of Babel over the measures".

   AVGHI: "Eurogroup president Jean Claude Juncker's statement: 'What will happen in Greece is beyond imagination".

   AVRIANI: "The sold out to the Troika - Government on the verge of collapse".

   ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "Mass layoffs and ceiling on pensions".

   ELEFTHEROTYPIA: 'End to hirings - Start of layoffs".

   ESTIA: "Consensus imperative".

   ETHNOS: "Government opened the door for layoffs in public sector".

   IMERISSIA: "Government starts privatisations - The listed DEKO first on the list".

   KATHIMERINI: "Layoffs in public sector and 6 billion euros in measures".

   NAFTEMPORIKI: "Privatisations package for immediate collection of 4.5 billion euros".

   RIZOSPASTIS: "Communist Party of Greece leader Aleka Papariga's press conference: Popular manipulation by the policy of the capital".

   TA NEA: "Pensions: Ceiling at 2,775 euros in DEKO and banks".

   VRADYNI: "Retirement at the age of 67 and suspension of early pensions".






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