Athens News Agency: News in English, 11-02-04

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[01] No-pay movement

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines 

[01] No-pay movement

As regards the negotiations on under-construction highways and the burning issue of tollways used to finance ongoing and even future projects, he said that any contract to be reached will benefit the state.

The disobedience by citizens who refuse to pay tickets and road tolls in protest against a recent sharp increase in fares ignited a confrontation between the minister and the opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) MPs.

SYRIZA MP Dimitris Papadimoulis accused the government of governing on a "divide-and-rule" basis.

Reppas returned the accusation, saying that SYRIZA is being "responsible for tearing Greek society apart by adopting demands presented by different groups even if they are opposed to their actual aspirations and goals".

Meanwhile, the political secretariat of Coalition of the Left (Synaspismos) party -- which leades the SYRIZA parliamentary coalition -- has decided to support the nascent movement urging people not to pay road tolls in the greater Athens area. The decision was reached following a meeting on Wednesday with a delegation of party members active in the movement.

TransportMinister Dimitris Reppas decried what he called irresponsible practices, in reference to the "no-pay movement" that has affected public transports and tollways.

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[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

The extended working hours in the public sector as of October and other economic issues were the main front-page items in Athens' dailies on Friday.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "IKA will have access to asset statements of those with overdue debts (contributions) to the state social security foundation".

AVGHI: "No-pay movement".

AVRIANI: "How to secure your pension from the public sector".

ELEFTHEROS: "Salaries, bonuses up in the air in public sector, too".

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "The Memorandum making Greek youths leave the country (for work abroad)".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "Continuous 8-hour workday and afternoon in public sector, municipalities, regional services".

ESTIA: "Fiscal chaos 90 years ago - Insert of ESTIA's issue of February 4, 1921 - Incredible similarities with the present".

ETHNOS: "8-hour workday and upsets in salaries - Reversals in public sector as from October".

IMERISSIA: "Uniform VAT in eurozone - Radical changes with Merkel plan".

KATHIMERINI: "Arrangement for Greek debt by end-2011".

LOGOS: "Indefinite mobilisations by IKA doctors".

NAFTEMPORIKI: "Plan for 'New Eurozone' with commitments and measures".

NIKI: "Strike 'no. 2' against public sector".

RIZOSPASTIS: "Free public health - Abolition of corporate action".

TA NEA: "Civil servants - 40-hour workweek, with work in afternoons, too".

VRADYNI: "OEK (Labor Housing Organisation) loans being abolished".

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