Greek Payroll Falls With 40000 Retirements

Since the beginning of Greece’s economic crisis in 2010, when then-prime minister George Papandreou asked for international bailouts after promising he wouldn’t, more than 40,000 civil servants have retired, with the government payroll falling by 4.8 billion euros ($6.21 billion) from 2009-12, according to figures provided by Alternate Finance Minister Christos Staikouras to ...

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