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Athens News Agency: News in English, 05-06-05
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[01] Streamlining loss-making public sector organisations the next
focus for government, FinMin Alogoskoufis says
[01] Streamlining loss-making public sector organisations the next
focus for government, FinMin Alogoskoufis says
Following the bank employees' social insurance and the recently reached
agreement on an early retirement deal at Hellenic Telecoms OTE, the
government's efforts will focus on streamlning the public sector
organisations operating at a loss, such as public transport and the
public enterprises in the national defence sector, national economy and
finance minister George Alogoskoufis said in a newspaper interview
published in the Sunday edition of Eleftheros Typos.
Regarding the bank social insurance issue, Alogoskoufis reiterated that
if an impasse is ascertained in the next few days in the ongoing
dialogue between the OTOE federation of banking employees' unions and
the Association of Greek Banks, the government will have no other
choice than to proceed to a solution within the week, given that the
issue cannot drag out further.
On public transport, the minister said that the rules must be clarified
for subsidisation of the tickets, and the services provided by the
public sector in general.
On the public sector enterprises in the defence sector, Alogoskoufis
said that the dialogue with the administrations would focus on the
additional measures that need to be taken in order to "stop this
haemorrhage for the public sector".
Alogoskoufis also said that if there were shortfalls and excessions on
this year's budget, in relation to the projected sums, they would be
small small. He said that the government would be everything necessary
to avoid tax measures, adding that the battle to confront wasteful
spending, limiting the state and reducing public expenditures needed to
be continued in the next budget, too.
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