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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-05-09
CONTENTS
[01] Greece honours Mauthausen concentration camp victims
[02] FinMin: Measures, not bankruptcy
[01] Greece honours Mauthausen concentration camp victims
VIENNA (ANA-MPA / D. Dimitrakoudis) - The memory of 3,700 Greeks who
lost their lives during World War II at the Mauthausen Nazi
concentration camp, in Upper Austria, was honoured on Sunday with a
religious service, addresses and the laying of wreaths at the Greek
monument at Mauthausen.
More than 10,000 pilgrims from throughout Europe attended ceremonies
marking the 65th anniversary of the camp's liberation on May 5, 1945.
[02] FinMin: Measures, not bankruptcy
(ANA-MPA) -- Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou referred to
"radical changes" in so-called "closed professions", the operation of
the state, the tax system as well as in the labour and retail markets,
in statements published in an Athens daily on Sunday. (ANA-MPA)
He also distinguished between "vested rights", one that "have been
rightfully obtained", and others concerning trade union claims, "to
which the state succumbed at some time and which we must consider
again."
Papaconstantinou stressed that the country found itself in a major
dilemma, but a simple one at the same time: It would either take
painful measures in the sense that it also affects citizens who are not
to blame for the situation, or it "would go to the wall". (ANA-MPA)
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