Greece’s European Union partners and the global financial markets have welcomed the new measures, which come on top of an original austerity package worth 5 billion euros in late January and are expected to help the government reduce its budget deficit to 8.7 percent this year and appease fears of a debt crisis in the eurozone.
But public support is crucial if these measures are to be implemented and opinion polls indicate that initial support for the reforms have plummeted from 70 percent to around 40 percent.
Meanwhile, another walkout is looming. The powerful civil servants’ union which claims to have been unfairly targeted by the measures, has called a 24-hour strike for Tuesday , the deadline European Union finance ministers have given Greece to show that it is pushing through changes to get its economy back on track.
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/new-strike-paralyzes-greece/
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