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Friday, August 31, 2012

FBI looking at Greece government


FBI looking at Greece government
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
21 town Board of Zoning Appeals meeting, an applicant for a zoning variance — Monroe County Legislator Richard Antelli — claimed that he was “a federal witness” in an investigation connected to the town of Greece government. Also, this week, local ...


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Greek police unionists protest planned pay cuts


Greek police unionists protest planned pay cuts
CBS News
Greek police unionists protest planned pay cuts. ATHENS, Greece — Dozens of uniformed police officers have protested peacefully outside Greece's Parliament against pay cuts that are planned under the government's new austerity drive. Shouting slogans ...


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Greek Budget Cuts Focus on Pension Curbs to Gain Troika Approval


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Greek Budget Cuts Focus on Pension Curbs to Gain Troika Approval
Businessweek
Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras has drafted an 11.7 billion-euro ($14.7 billion) package of spending cuts that will mean about a third of savings will come from reduced spending on pensions. The two-year package, which is still being discussed ...
Greek austerity package draft targets pensions, wagesReuters
Greek PM Says Euro Exit Risk Has Diminished Slightly -SpokesmanWall Street Journal
Greek PM says new austerity round will be the lastThe Seattle Times

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GOP Presidential Nominee Romney Says Greece a Bad Example


ABC News

GOP Presidential Nominee Romney Says Greece a Bad Example
Greek Reporter
U.S. Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, accepting the party's nomination at his convention in Tampa, Florida, said he wants to restore America's economy and cited Greece as an example of what happens when it goes wrong. Referring to his plan ...
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Greek austerity package draft targets pensions, wages


Telegraph.co.uk

Greek austerity package draft targets pensions, wages
Reuters
The list, obtained from a Greek coalition source, was formulated by the country's finance ministry and was submitted earlier this week for approval to the leaders of the three parties in the ruling coalition. Even though the leaders broadly agreed on ...
Greek Finance Minister Sees Signs of Improving Market SentimentWall Street Journal
Greek PM says new austerity round will be the lastThe Seattle Times

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Dutch populist leader takes aim at EU — and flops





[...] as the Netherlands heads into elections with economic crisis raging across the continent, Wilders has taken aim at a different target: the European Union.

Wilders has tried to revive his Freedom Party's fortunes on promises to ditch the euro and ignore European budgetary rules ahead of the Sept. 12 election.

[...] as Europe's debt crisis forced immigration issues into the background, Wilders' popularity began a steady slide.

Wilders has always been a skeptic of the European Union, but he hadn't concentrated on Brussels much since 2005, when he was in the vanguard as the Dutch overwhelmingly voted to reject a European constitution in a national referendum.

Wilders loudly opposed bailouts for southern European countries, at one point printing up an oversize replica of an old drachma note and trying to deliver it to the Greek Embassy as a stunt.

Under Prime Minister Mark Rutte's all-conservative coalition, the Netherlands has been a reliable supporter of the German approach to the crisis: austerity for all and support for weaker economies only when things seemed about to spin out of control.

The Socialists, long a fringe party with no experience in national government, have grown fast under affable leader Emile Roemer, dubbed "Fozzie Bear" by a popular Dutch news blog.

Polls show Roemer's Socialists and Rutte's libertarian VVD Party in a neck-and-neck race to take the most votes, with each forecast to win around 32 seats in the 150-member Dutch parliament.

With the far-left and far-right splitting the anti-euro vote, there is no credible coalition with centrist parties that would be willing to adopt a radically anti-Brussels line.


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