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Grekodom reports:
Economy Minister, Dimitris Papadimitriou, signed the new law that allows the voluntary operation of shops on Sundays.
The new law 4427/2017 allows for retail stores in central Athens, Thessaloniki, and tourist areas to be open on Sundays for six months of the year during tourist season. The opening of retail stores on Sundays is a prerequisite of Greece's bailout program.
The Federation of Private Sector Employees has called a 24-hour strike to protest the decision while the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship (ESEE) said it will appeal it to the Council of State.
The ministerial decision determines, in great detail, specific areas where the shops can open on Sundays.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:20AM (2 children)
today more and more people do not cook at home and [instead] eat at various establishments
It's good to know that things are going so well where you are.
In Greece, the unemployment numbers are disastrous.
These days, Greece looks more and more like what used to be called a Third World country.
FTFS: Greece's bailout program
Greece's economy failed.
Instead of doing the smart thing and telling the banksters to go fuck themselves (as Iceland did[1]), Greece's ruling class has decided to pour money down the rathole that is the country's debt to German bankers.
The debt will never be paid, yet the wage earners, wannabe wage earners, and pensioners are all going to be bled dry by the government's incompetent efforts to fill the bottomless pit.
The SYRIZA Party claimed to be a Leftist bunch, but as soon as they took power, they went right back to austerity measures, same as with the previous overlords.
Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing.
Public holdings like airports are now being sold off (to foreigners).
It won't be long until Greece is just like colonial India WRT ownership of the means of production.
[1] Last count I saw, Iceland had put 26 of its banksters in prison.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by cafebabe on Wednesday July 26 2017, @10:39AM (1 child)
Population of Iceland was 332529. Population of Greece was about 10955000. Population of UK was about 65648000. Population of Germany was about 82175700. Population of US was 323127513. If these countries all imprisoned an equal proportion of bankers, Iceland would imprison 26 bankers, Greece would imprison 857 bankers, UK would imprison 5133 bankers, Germany would imprison 6425 bankers and US would imprison 25265 bankers.
1702845791×2
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @11:19AM
Q: What do you call 10,000 dead lawyers at the bottom of the sea?
A: A good start.
s/lawyers/bankers
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