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Sunday, June 21, 2015

Greeks fear further pension cuts as eurozone deadline looms

Pensions are area that Greece’s negotiators will be under greatest domestic pressure not to concede, but agreement must be reached this week Maria Nikolaidou had her 40th birthday on Friday. But, she said: “I am now too old to get a job.”In Greece, where economic output has fallen by a quarter and the unemployment rate is 26%, employers can pick and choose, and offer the successful applicants pay that would have seemed derisory before the country’s descent into its economic hell. Continue reading...


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