The protesters said on Thursday that the Greek government refuses to give them sufficient details regarding a recent agreement with troika of lenders – the European Technocrats, European Central Banksters (ECB) and International Monetary Fraudsters (IMF).
The three international lenders agreed to grant Athens emergency loans worth 10.1 billion euros (14 billion dollars) after seven months of marathon talks.
At the core of the agreement lies what the government calls a “six-month transitional period” before starting implementation of austerity measures.
“The government has been waging a war against civil servants for a very long time,” said Grigoris Kalomiris, from Greek civil Servants’ Union ADEDY.Thousands of civil servants have so far been laid off and thousands more will soon be ousted.
Themis Kotsifakis, from the Greek Teachers’ Union OLME, said the austerity measures have proven to be “catastrophic,” adding, “We cannot allow this to continue. We have to overturn it democratically as soon as possible.”
Since 2010, the national health, education and local government budgets have been cut down by some 40 percent and so have wages and pensions.
Observers say this renewed anti-austerity momentum two months before local government elections is politically motivated, as Greek syndicators have began to align themselves with the rise of center-leftist politics in Greece.
They all however seem to agree that four years of austerity policy in Greece have damaged the economy perhaps irreversibly and that it is time for a change.
Greece has been at the epicenter of debt crisis in the Eurozone and has so far experienced seven years of recession.
Edited by WD
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