Δευτέρα 26 Μαρτίου 2012

Le service de santé grec face à des réductions catastrophiques

Par nos correspondants

19 mars 2012

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Le parlement grec a adopté le 1er mars des réductions massives dans le service de santé public.

La réduction d’un milliard d’euros des dépenses de santé était la dernière loi intérieure requise en vertu de la liste de « mesures préalables » imposées par l’Union européenne, le Fonds monétaire international et la Banque centrale européenne pour permettre à la Grèce d’obtenir le second prêt de 130 milliards d’euros.

Ces mesures comprennent l’allongement des horaires d’ouverture des pharmacies, la réduction des dépenses de médicaments par les fonds de pension publics et une législation qui rend obligatoire la prescription de médicaments génériques.

A l’intérieur de l’hôpital de la Croix Rouge à Athènes

Les coupes ont entraîné de vastes protestations de la part du personnel hospitalier. La veille du vote, les travailleurs des hôpitaux publics avaient organisé une grève de 24 heures. On a vu dans tout Athènes, avant le vote, une affiche collée devant les pharmacies et sur laquelle le ministre de la Santé, Andreas Loverdos, était présenté comme un fossoyeur.

Les avancées sociales obtenues au cours de plusieurs décennies ont été anéanties du jour au lendemain. Commentant les réductions, le journalAthens News a déclaré, « La priorité du gouvernement, qui dépense quelque 25 milliards d’euros par an pour la santé, grosso modo 10 pour cent de son PIB, est de contrôler un système public de santé gonflé. »

Ces dernières réductions viennent s’ajouter aux souffrances qui affligent d’ores et déjà des millions de gens suite aux attaques déjà perpétrées par le précédent gouvernement PASOK en 2009.

En octobre dernier, le World Socialist Web Site signalait [article en anglais uniquement] une étude publiée par la revue médicale The Lancet, intitulée « Santé publique : la crise financière, une tragédie grecque. »

En raison des réductions budgétaires, 40 pour cent de la population grecque sont obligés de se passer de services médicaux. Un phénomène sans précédent dans l’Union européenne qui a fait que des organisations non gouvernementales telles Médecins du Monde procurent des services médicaux courants à la population.

Le président de la section grecque de Médecins du Monde, Nikitis Kanakis, a décrit la situation comme étant « une crise humanitaire qui continue de s’aggraver. »

Une équipe de reporters du World Socialist Web Site a parlé cette semaine aux travailleurs hospitaliers. Au service de chirurgie de l’hôpital de la Croix Rouge à Athènes, dans le quartier d’Ambelokipi, le personnel a expliqué que la crise économique avait eu pour conséquence une pénurie de matériel. Les travailleurs de la santé craignent que des projets soient en train d’être élaborés qui résulteraient dans la privatisation de l’hôpital alors même que la majorité des gens n'ont pas les moyens d'avoir accès à des soins médicaux privés. Un hôpital attenant a déjà été privatisé et ses employés sont maintenant rémunérés différemment et ont des contrats différents de ceux du personnel de la Croix Rouge d’Athènes.

Maria travaille à l’hôpital depuis 22 ans et supervise le service de chirurgie. Elle a dit, « Il y a eu pas mal de baisses de salaires. Avec la prime que je reçois et avec 22 ans de service, mes revenus se situent maintenant à 1.200 euros par mois. En raison des réductions, c’est 500 euros de moins que ce que je percevais avant. Ici, la plupart des travailleurs ne gagnent qu’entre 500 et 700 euros par mois »

Une grand nombre d’infirmières employées à l’hôpital sont issues de centres de formation professionnelle et n’ont pas de diplôme universitaire. Maria a expliqué que la plupart de ces dernières ne gagnaient maintenant pas plus de 640 euros, soit entre 300 et 400 euros de moins que ce qu’elles gagnaient avant.

Les infirmières travaillent 40 heures ou plus par semaine. Si les infirmières travaillent de nuit, la rémunération supplémentaire n’est que de 10 euros par équipe de nuit. « Une infirmière a travaillé huit nuits en décembre et n’a gagné que 90 euros de plus, » a dit Maria.

Le manque de personnel a conduit à une situation où seules deux infirmières travaillent de nuit et sont responsables d'une quarantaine de patients à l’hôpital. Maria nous a dit qu’elle s’attendait à de nouvelles suppressions de postes à l’avenir.

Demny a expliqué, « Lorsque j’ai débuté comme infirmière il y a deux ans, je gagnais 980 euros. Maintenant, en raison des réductions de salaire, je ne perçois plus que 560 euros et j’ai une petite fille à charge. »

Un phénomène croissant en Grèce est le fait que des enfants sont obligés de se faire aider matériellement par leurs parents alors que ces derniers éprouvent eux-mêmes des difficultés à joindre les deux bouts. Demny a expliqué qu’elle se sentait humiliée parce qu’elle n’était plus en mesure de pourvoir à ses besoins et qu’elle avait dû envoyer sa fille vivre chez ses parents. « A une époque j’envoyais de l’argent à mes parents pour les aider et maintenant c’est eux qui m’envoient de l’argent, » a-t-elle dit.

Demny a dû réduire toutes ses dépenses ordinaires vu que le loyer de son appartement coûte à lui seul plus de 300 euros par mois. « Il ne me reste même pas 40 ou 50 euros à la fin du mois et je ne pense que cela va s’améliorer. Je pense que ça va s’empirer, » a-t-elle dit.

Malgré cette situation, Demny ne veut pas quitter son emploi parce que le chômage est tellement élevé et qu’elle bénéficie encore du statut de fonctionnaire.

A la question de savoir si elle avait un message à faire passer aux lecteurs du World Socialist Web Site Maria a dit, « Je souhaite que la situation en Grèce n’arrive pas aux autres travailleurs en Europe. »














On voit les effets terribles de la calamité sociale qui s’est abattue sur la Grèce dans l'état grave, entre la vie et la mort, des patients qui viennent pour se faire soigner à l’hôpital a dit Vissaria, doctoresse qui travaille depuis un an à la Croix Rouge. « Nous nous trouvons maintenant dans une situation en Grèce où les gens viennent aux urgences des hôpitaux lorsqu’ils sont à deux doigts de la mort. »

« Ce que je veux dire, c’est qu’ils ne vont pas voir un médecin privé à cause des frais. Maintenant, ils ne vont voir un médecin que quand ils sont sérieusement malades. Lorsqu’ils ont quelque chose qu’ils jugent bénin, ils ne vont pas voir un médecin privé. En Grèce si vous allez chez un médecin privé vous devez débourser 40 euros par visite. Et donc, quand elles viennent ici certaines personnes sont dans un état très, très grave.

« Il y a des gens qui viennent ici qui ont perdu leur emploi, des gens qui n’ont pas mangé depuis longtemps, des gens qui sont seuls et malades et qui ne peuvent recevoir d’aide de nulle part. Nous avons des personnes âgées qui ont des enfants mais les enfants n’ont maintenant plus l’argent pour soutenir leurs parents et leurs procurer des soins de santé.

« Nous avons beaucoup de problèmes ici. Nous avons de moins en moins de matériel médical. Nos salaires sont beaucoup plus bas qu’avant. Mon salaire a été réduit de 300 euros par mois. Nous avons dû tout restreindre. Nous arrivons à payer nos factures mais il n’y a plus d’argent pour rien d’autre. »

(Article original paru le 15 mars 2012)

http://www.wsws.org/francais/News/2012/mar2012/grec-m19.shtml

Save the Greek People from their Saviours !

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At a time when one in two young Greeks is unemployed, when 25,000 homeless wander in the streets of Athens, when 30% of the population has fallen under the poverty line, when thousands of families are forced to give up their children for fear of them dying from hunger or cold, when the new poor and refugees fight over garbage in landfills, the “saviours” of Greece, under the pretext that the Greeks “haven’t done enough yet,” have imposed a new bailout program that will double the lethal dose. A program that abolishes labour laws and reduces the poor to extreme misery, all while eliminating the middle classes from the scene.

The goal cannot be to “rescue” Greece : on this point all economists worthy of the name agree. They are buying time to save creditors while leading the country to deferred bankruptcy. But above all, Greece, with the active collaboration of its ruling class, is being made into a laboratory for social change that afterwards will be exported throughout all Europe. The model being tested on the Greeks is that of a society without public services, where schools, hospitals and clinics fall into ruin, where healthcare becomes the privilege of the rich, where vulnerable populations are doomed to a programmed elimination, and where those still employed are condemned to the extreme forms of pauperization and precariousness.

But in order for this neoliberal offensive to achieve its ends, it must establish a system that “economizes” on the most basic democratic rights. Under the banner of saviours, we are now witnessing in Europe the rise of a government of technocrats who pay no heed to popular sovereignty. This is a turning point in parliamentary systems, where the “representatives of the people” give carte blanche to experts and bankers, abdicating their own decision-making power. A kind of parliamentary coup d’état, which also makes use of a powerful repressive apparatus in the face of popular protests. Once the deputies have ratified the convention dictated by the troika (the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund), in diametrical opposition to the mandate they received, a power without democratic legitimacy will have dictated the future of the country for the next thirty or forty years.

Meanwhile the EU is preparing to establish an escrow account that will dispense aid to Greece uniquely in order to service its debt. The revenues of the country should be consecrated with “absolute priority” to the repayment of its creditors, and, if necessary, paid directly to the account managed by the European Union. The agreement stipulates that any new bonds shall be governed by English law, and involve material guarantees ; disputes will be adjudicated by the courts of Luxembourg, and Greece waives in advance any right of appeal against claims determined by its creditors. To complete this picture, privatizations are assigned to a fund managed by the troika, in which shall be deposited the titles to public goods. In short : widespread looting, the trademark of financial capitalism which is offered here a stunning institutional sanctification. To the extent that sellers and buyers sit on the same side of the table, we have little doubt that this business of privatization will be a real feast for the takers, whether Greeks or foreigners…

All the measures taken so far have only dug the Greeks deeper into debt and, with the help of rescuers who lend at exorbitant rates, the sovereign debt has today literally exploded, approaching 170% of GDP and rising, while in 2009 it represented no more than 120%. It is likely that the slew of rescue plans—each one presented as the “ultimate”—had no other purpose than to further weaken the position of Greece so that, deprived of any opportunity to itself propose the terms of a restructuring, it is reduced to capitulating to its creditors under the blackmail of “disaster or austerity.”

The artificial and coercive worsening of the debt problem has been used as a weapon to assault an entire society. Our words are here chosen carefully : if we use military terms, it is because what is happening is indeed a war conducted by means of finance, politics and law, a class war against society as a whole. And the booty that the financial class must seize from the “enemy” is social gains and democratic rights, and ultimately the very possibility of a human life. The lives of those who do not consume or produce enough with regard to profit maximization strategies should no longer be preserved.

Thus, the weakness of a country caught between limitless speculation and devastating bailout programs, becomes the backdoor through which emerges a new social model conforming to the dictates of neoliberal fundamentalism. A model for all of Europe and perhaps beyond. This is what is really at stake, and that is why the defense of the Greek people cannot be reduced to a gesture of solidarity or abstract humanity : the future of democracy and the fate of European peoples hangs in the balance. Everywhere the “pressing necessity” of a “painful but salutary” austerity is presented as the only way to escape a fate like the Greeks, while leading us straight there.

In the face of this attack against society, and before the destruction of the last pockets of democracy, we call on our fellow citizens, our French and European friends to speak up loudly and clearly. We must not allow experts and politicians to monopolize the discourse. Can we remain indifferent before the fact that at the demand of German and French leaders Greece is now banned from elections ? The stigmatization and the systematic denigration of a European people—does this not deserve a response ? Is it possible not to raise one’s voice against the institutional assassination of the Greek people ? And can we remain silent before the coercive installation of a system that outlaws the very idea of social solidarity ?

We are at the point of no return. It is urgent to fight the battle of numbers and the war of words to counter the ultra-liberal rhetoric of fear and misinformation. There is an urgent need to deconstruct the morality tales that obscure the actual processes at work in society. And it has become more than urgent to demystify the racist insistence on the “specificity of the Greeks” that makes the supposedly national character of a people (lazy and cunning at turns) the root cause of a crisis that in reality is global. What matters today are not particularities, real or imagined, but what is common : the fate of a people that will affect all others.

Numerous technical solutions have been proposed to overcome the alternative “either the destruction of society or else bankruptcy” (which effectively means, as we see today, “destruction and bankruptcy”). All must be brought to the table as elements of reflection for the construction of another Europe. But first we must denounce the crime, and bring to light the deplorable situation in which the Greek people find themselves thanks to “rescue packages” designed by and for speculators and creditors. At a time when a movement of support is being forged around the world, when the Internet buzzes with initiatives of solidarity, will French intellectuals be the last to raise their voices for Greece ? Without further delay, we must multiply articles, media interventions, debates, petitions, demonstrations. All initiatives are welcome, all initiatives are urgent.

As for us, this is what we propose : to form as quickly as possible a European Committee of intellectuals and artists in solidarity with the Greek people who resist. If not us, who ? If not now, when ?

Vicky Skoumbi, Editor-in-Chief of the journal “αληthεια” , Athens, Michel Surya, director of the journal “Lignes”, Paris, Dimitris Vergetis, director of the journal “αληthεια”, Athens.

And : Diamanti Anagnostopoulou, Enzo Apicella, Albena Azmanova, Daniel Alvara,Alain Badiou, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Etienne Balibar, Fernanda Bernardo, David Berry, Sylvie Blocher, Laura Boella, Carlo Bordini, Roberto Bugliani, Daniela Calabro, Claude Cambon, Maria Elena Carosella, Barbara Cassin, Bruno Clément, Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Christiane Cohendy, Yannick Courtel, Martin Crowely, Rolf Czeskleba-Dupont, Michel Deguy, Michel Didelot, Didier Deleule, Claire Denis, Georges Didi-Huberman, Costas Douzinas, Riccardo Drachi-Lorenz, Marie Ducaté, Leili Echghi, Roberto Esposito, Camille Fallen, Celine Flecheux, Chiara Frugoni, Ivetta Fuhrmann, Enzo Gallori, Jean-Marie Gleize, Francesca Isidori, Clio Karabelias, Jason Karaïndros, Stathis Kouvelakis, Pierre-Philippe Jandin, Jeremy Leaman, Jérôme Lèbre, Marie-Magdeleine Lessana, Jacques Lezra, Gianna Licchetta, Marco Mamone Capria Jean-Clet Martin, Pr. Jobst Meyer, Pierre Murat, Jean-Luc Nancy, Maurizio Neri, Gloria Origgi, Marco Palladini, Timothy Perkins, Matthaios Petrosino, Nicola Predieri, Stefano Pippa, Philippe Rahme, Jacques Rancière, Haris Raptis, Judith Revel, Elisabeth Rigal, Franco Romanò, Avital Ronell, Jacob Rogozinski, Alessandro Russo, Hugo Santiago, Ingo Schmidt, Beppe Sebaste, Giacomo Sferlazzo, Amalia Signorelli, Michèle Sinapi, Maria Giulia Soru, Benjamin Swaim, Bruno Tackels, Enzo Traverso, Gilberte Tsaï, Frieder Otto Wolf
http://www.editions-lignes.com/Save-The-Greek-People.html

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Κυριακή 25 Μαρτίου 2012

Grèce :”On ne doit rien ! On ne vend rien ! On ne paie rien !”


Reportage en Grèce avec une délégation solidaire internationale.
Tourné les 28 et 29 Février 2012.

Source : Les mutins de Pangée

Greece: A national holiday without the nation


Greek authorities didn't allow the public to attend the military parade for the Greek Independence Day out of fear that the event will turn into another anti-austerity demonstration.

in Politics, on the 25th of March 2012

Greek authorities didn't allow the public to attend the military parade for the Greek Independence Day out of fear that the event will turn into another anti-austerity demonstration.

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Παρασκευή 23 Μαρτίου 2012

"HOLLANDRÉOU" : MÉLENCHON CUISINE LE PS À LA GRECQUE


Par Ivan Valerio | 06/03/12

Jean-Luc Mélenchon fait (encore) des siennes sur les plateaux de télévision. Cette fois, c’est le PS qui est dans le viseur du candidat du Front de gauche. Et le bon mot fait même sourire Laurence Ferrari. Quand il est questionné sur son éventuelle participation au gouvernement de François Hollande, Jean-Luc Mélenchon s’exclame : "mais pourquoi voudriez-vous que j'aille me coller dans un gouvernement Hollandréou".

Τετάρτη 21 Μαρτίου 2012

Politics without morality is the morality of tyrants


Letter written by Journalist Kostas Vaxevanis to Evanggelos Venizelos March 15th 2012. The letter has been published on http://www.koutipandoras.gr/?p=17080 and titled “Politics without morality is the morality of tyrants”

“Mr. Venizelos,

I am writing to you for the third time. Many will wonder why? Some will say its perseverance. I will not deny that I was quite hesitant to write yet another letter to which you would not reply. My letter may seem tedious and pointless coming at a time which finds you in “political heaven”. But we all have our own understanding of what is or is not pointless.

In times of crisis people are more likely to be deceived than to be angry. I have stood by and watched in amazement as people called me after reading my first two letters to you, having something to add to the way you have been governing, describing your tactics as “legislative monstrosities», now making statements of support to you. They now appear almost anxious to undertake the difficult task of helping you rise to the throne as party leader of PASOK. Many would argue «this is politics,» but to me «this is not politics» and this is why I am writing again. Politics without morality is the morality of tyrants. This country deserves something more.

Let us start from the beginning when back in 2004 you were Minister of Culture. Your reign as minister was sealed by what seemed to be a great achievement: the Olympic Games. Today everyone understands that this was merely a way for some to make a huge profit by being awarded massive construction contracts given to them directly/namely without tendering or competition stages via the praises of the Greek media. The rubbish that our fellow citizens are nowadays digging through for something to eat, are leftovers from these times. Public records of exactly how many billions the Olympics cost were never released. We now understand how much they have cost us. I am referring not only to the economic costs, but also to the cost of the picture painted on the front pages of the European press of the «lazy Greek». Greeks are not lazy. There is no such thing as a lazy nation. The Greek governments, your government, handed out billions of euros for the Olympics, SIEMENS investments, buying “tilting” submarines, «modernization» projects with ridiculously high budgets. Some began accepting bribes and used this as an opportunity to climb up the political ladder within a “european establishment”. But this is another big subject for discussion.

Back to the point of this letter.

Before that in April 2003, again as Minister of Culture you signed decrees by which two listed industrial buildings, the FIX and ALLATINI factories, were declassified. Both were situated on valuable land in the area of Thessaloniki. The owners whom had already been compensated for the initial ratings of the buildings, were now to become even richer. The owners of the ALLATINI factory had been granted permission to transfer 110,000 buildable square meters to another location. The declassification of parts of the listed building that you granted, allowed the owner to build 5 six-storey building, 1 five-storey building, a single storey residence and 400 parking spaces.

Despite the reaction of the residents the whole political establishment of Thessaloniki, many of which have since been convicted or are facing prosecution for serious charges, stood on your side. Two years later, the Council of State ruled the declassification you supported illegal, according to Article 24 of the Constitution. This had escaped your attention even though you are a constitution expert. Even though the permitted building area factor for the area was 2,2, factor 4,2 was applied to the scheme, exceeding any notion of justified reason. Construction works thankfully never commenced. In 2006, George Voulgarakis, Minister of Culture, for New Democracy this time, yet again declassified the ALLATINI factory. The Council of State ruled the decree illegal again. There must be a reason why your government and later the government of New Democracy were both eager to gain access to a block in Thessaloniki that could become a goldmine overnight.

According to planning legislation which you passed and signed off “in the event that a plot of land exceeds 2,000sq.m in size and the proposed grounds around the building can be used for public use, the following incentives are given: permitted building area can be increased by 35% and additionally the building will be allowed to be 30% taller than any permitted height restriction in the area”.

Coincidentally, the ALLATINI plot of land is 2600 square meters. Previously the construction works had not commenced because the Council of State had ruled the decree illegal due to the scheme exceeding the permitted building area. You suddenly managed to regulate this by amending the law accordingly. The Greek Parliament almost unanimously (considering this has been a cross-party affair) voted for this law to be amended. I guess there are not many plots of land over 2,000 square meters available in city centres,. Why else would one bother to make such an amendment? If there are more such available plots of land, please do let us know so that we can see who else has profited from this law amendment.

Let us move on to more complex issues.

Just before the second Memorandum was voted you stated that you needed 250 million or else you would have to make auxilery pensions cuts. I can tell you where the 250 million you were looking for as well as where many millions more that you handed out as gifts, should have been found. And obviously I don’t mean from pensioners. You have also served as defense minister. At that time you knew too well both from officials but also from the judicial establishment what the whole of Greece also knew from the news. The supply of 4 German submarines S-214 and the repair of 4 more S-209 was a big bribing scandal involving PASOK ministers and officials of the Navy Ministry. Greece had once again decided to buy submarines in the name of national security for double the normal market rate. So not only did we finance the German research program HDW, but we also paid in advance for all submarines when we only received one which was faulty and appeared to be “tiliting”. The «PAPANIKOLIS» submarine as it was called, had been rejected by all other ministers of defense before you.

The German authorities investigated the scandal, and revealed that a group of Greeks (including politicians) took bribes in order for the commission to go ahead. The bribes were handed over to the perjurer through the offset program. The German company appeared to be paying Greek companies to take on construction works involving the submarine. That was the bribe cover-up. Next German HDW agreed to buy the Shipyards in Skaramanga for a ridiculously cheap price in order for the bribers to appear as if they were buying submarines to save the shipyards, and save the workers who would be left jobless otherwise.

In the meantime in Greece, further investigations took place leading to the prosecution of 30 people. Amongst the prosecuted were trade unionists who took bribes to “adjust” employee rights in the interest of those being bribed. The Greek Tax Crime Control unit (SDOE), as you well know, informed you personally confirming the above allegations. HDW did not honor the agreed Offset Program which would return 500 million to Greece. SDOEs report revealed that large companies which appeared to have received money from the German company to work on parts of the submarine never did. Where did that money go? The German judicial authorities concluded that the money was used for bribing.

You were also aware of the appalling fact the German company that now owns the shipyard was responsible for large tax violations, ironically the Germans now accuse us of corruption. In one of the invoices in question funds were shown to «promote the corporate interests of the Greek shipyard in Bolivia.» Minor detail being that Bolivia has no sea to have corporate interests in the shipyards.

Based on the criminal investigation carried out by Germany and Greece, our country should have challenged the submarine contracts, and demanded compensation. This never happened. You were happy to buy the “tilting” submarine when all other defense ministers before you declined to do so. You then did something even worse. Again using the pretext that the shipyard workers needed to be saved, part of the Shipyard was sold to investors from Dubai (30% of the shipyard remained in German hands). Next you signed a waiver agreement applying law 3885/2010. While the country was still amidst negotiations with the Germans, you signed a document in which the Greek government explicitly renounced any right to claim losses in the case of breach of contract for the submarine deal. The Shipyards were handed over to the new owners although you knew that unsolved tax offense accusations were pending, so were false invoices and more. You did not stop there. At a time of crisis you decided to buy two more submarines for the outrageous price of 515 million euros, even though you were aware that we had already paid a 96% deposit for the last submarines that we never received. The contract does not even include a clause setting out the payment conditions for you coughed up the cash to make the payment up front. So you should know where the money that you were supposedly looking for went. Now the question is why you gave the Germans more than 1 billion euros?

Since we touched the subject of employee “well-being», let me remind you of another case, whereas you similarly handed out vast amounts of money so that “workers would not lose their jobs”. In 1998 whilst you were Development Minister you announced that the Canadian company which exploited the Prinos-Kavala oil reserves was withdrawing its operations from Greece because the contract expired. Based on contractual obligations the company had to restore the environment to its original condition . The allowed budget for this was $ 700 million, according to your statement in Parliament. You decided not to dismiss the 258 employees by continuing the pumping operations not by the group Greek Petroleum SA. Nor did an international competition take place. Instead the contract was awarded directly to a newly formed company called KAVALA OIL, 67% privately owned and 33% owned by the workers. You personally gave a 5 million U.S. dollars deposit for the new company to form. You basically financed it. You became a local hero in Kavala.

The contract you signed also included something else unexplainable. The Company was exempt from the costs of environmental remediation and the demolition of the plant after the end of pumping. This gave them the right to takeout the oil and leave the Greek government with a bill of $ 700 million in 1999 . Neither the previous company paid nor will the next. The Greek people will pay the bill. The «lazy greeks» featured in German newspapers that eat up money. All this to apparently «save» 258 employees. With all that money you gave to the companies the workers would have lived without working and so would many more in the region. I expect an answer to why you obsessively believe that the interests of companies are the interests of Greece.

The abovementioned law ‘amendments’ passed via the Greek parliament. You are familiar with law as a subject and you know how to delegate responsibilities. I am not only referring to politics.

Perhaps this letter is written to all politicians. I do not think they are all corrupt. They may hopefully understand what is going on and dare to speak up. I am also writing this letter to all the people supporting PASOK that will have to spend 2 euros in order to vote for you to be party leader believing that your are the most appropriate candidate. I really do not understand why anyone would think that, but I’m sure they do not mean the «most appropriate» out of pure freedom of choice.

The important thing is not for the political parties to survive, but for the country. The country that you will enentually like us to think that you saved, like the Shipyards in Skaramanga and Kavala Oil. Even ALLATINI. Whether you like it or not, you have surrendered to history. The importance you stress on seeing the name «Venizelos» in power for the second time has been accomplished. Historians say that in order for Eleftherios Venizelos to reach the Asia Minor Catastrophe he at least had a vision. I do not think that any future historian will be able to forgive you for leading the country to total destruction in credit of any vision.

PS For all PASOK members who will vote for Venizelos to lead in order to save the party, ask yourself before you do so, whether you are talking about a party that only suits Venizelos.”

http://www.koutipandoras.gr/?p=17349