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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-01-07
CONTENTS
[01] PM Tsipras: It is our social responsibility to safeguard the
sustainability of the social security system
[02] Opposition parties need to participate in dialogue on pension
reforms, says gov't spokeswoman Gerovassili
[03] Greek unemployment rate eased to 24.6 pct in Sept
[01] PM Tsipras: It is our social responsibility to safeguard the
sustainability of the social security system
It is our social responsibility to safeguard the sustainability of
the social security system and we owe it to the next generations,
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday said in a meeting with the
representatives of the labour unions.
Tsipras is meeting with labour unions representatives within the framework
of the debate on social security reforms.
[02] Opposition parties need to participate in dialogue on pension
reforms, says gov't spokeswoman Gerovassili
Government spokeswoman Olga Gerovassili on Thursday in statements to
real.gr stressed the importance of the opposition's participation in
a constructive and of national importance dialogue to decide upon the
social security reforms.
Gerovassili underlined that the participation of the opposition parties
in such a dialogue would strengthen Greece's negotiating position.
She concluded that the Greek government has submitted a comprehensive
framework of social security reforms to the social partners, the political
parties and the EU institutions.
[03] Greek unemployment rate eased to 24.6 pct in Sept
Greek unemployment rate eased to 24.6 pct of the workforce in September,
slightly down compared with 24.7 pct in August but 1.5 percentage points
down compared with September 2014 (26.1 pct), Eurostat said on Thursday.
The EU executive's statistics arm, in a monthly report, said that
the Greek unemployment rate remained the highest in the EU (including
youth unemployment 49.5 pct), followed by Spain (21.4 pct and 47.5 pct
respectively, November figures).
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