pensions
Tsakalotos puts the issue of pensions at Lagarde and Thomsen: Under discussion, says the IMF
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Friday presented the government’s arguments that cutting pensions was not a structural measure and that there was a fiscal space to implement the majority of counter-measures in a four-year period, during a meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde and the head of the IMF’s European […]
The government’s intention is to table a budget plan that will not include pension cuts
The government’s intention is to table on October 15 a budget plan that will not include the cuts in pension and the offset measures, but will include the measures announced by the prime minister (Alexis Tsipras) in Thessaloniki International Fair, clarified a top government official speaking to the press in New York.
“We welcome the possibility of non-reduction of pensions” says ND’s Yannis Vroutsis
“The main opposition welcomes the possibility of non-reduction of pensions,” New Democracy (ND) Shadow Labour Minister Yiannis Vroutsis said on Sunday in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agecy (ANA).
“The SYRIZA government is clearly falling apart, has to go”, says New Democracy spokeswoman
It is clear that the present government is falling apart and the connective tissue that is holding it together is dissolving, main opposition New Democracy press spokeswoman Maria Spyraki told the private broadcaster SKAI on Saturday. It was clear that the government had to go, she added, urging citizens to hear ND’s proposals.
Government’s red lines are the tax-free ceiling and main pensions, says FinMin
The government will not back down on the issue of the main pensions and the tax-free ceiling, both of which Greece’s lenders want to be cut and lowered respectively, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said on Tuesday during a joint press conference with Economy Minister Giorgos Stathakis and Labour minister George Katrougalos.
Either the social security system will change or it will collapse, says Tsipras
The struggle for change is not book theories but daily action, said Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addressing a SYRIZA event on the first year anniversary of SYRIZA-ANEL governance under the slogan “One year Left, One year battle. We proceed” held at the Tae Kwon Do arena.
Pensions cannot be less than contributions, Pavlopoulos stresses after meeting Katrougalos
Pensions cannot be allowed to fall below the amount paid in contributions, President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Monday after a briefing on proposed pension system reform from Labour Minister George Katrougalos.