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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Greece: More austerity despite strikes, dissent





ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's conservative-led coalition detailed a new four-year package of austerity measures late Monday, facing down escalating protests by unions and dissent from its left-wing government partners.

On Monday, doctors launched a three-day strike that will leave state hospitals functioning on emergency staff, while news broadcasting was canceled by a 24-hour journalists' strike.

Flights will be disrupted for three hours Tuesday.

Since forming his government after June elections, Samaras has fought on two fronts:

To persuade debt inspectors from the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank to approve the country's €31.5 billion loan installment, and to talk his two center-left coalition partners into backing the necessary spending cuts and labor reforms.


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