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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-08-21
CONTENTS
[01] Opposition blasts updated memorandum
[02] German hiker found safe on Crete mountain
[01] Opposition blasts updated memorandum
Opposition political parties issued stern reactions on Saturday
following the previous dayâs unveiling of the closely watched updated
memorandum between the Greek state and the "troika", a landmark set of
obligations that must be met to ensure continued emergency loans
offered to the country.
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party spokesman Panos
Panayiotopoulos emphasized that the latest memorandum merely "brings
our people more problems ... those who voted for it (memorandum) should
consider their responsibility. New Democracy insists that there is
another path for the country, and it has also proposed specific
measures."
A statement by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) stated that the
memorandum "is yet more proof of the barbarous and anti-popular
measures have no end."
The Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) party said the government and
troika have failed in their policy "and have decided to implement new
measures, absolutely in the same dead-end direction of the up-until-now
memorandum".
[02] German hiker found safe on Crete mountain
A 19-year-old German hiker was found safe and well by a rescue team
just after midnight on Saturday after getting lost on the southern
slopes of Mt. Psyloriti on Crete earlier in the afternoon. The teen had
earlier called his father via cellphone, with the latter contacting
police in the area.
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