Etliche Parlamentarier, auch der Regierungs Partei, hatten sich geweigert, für das Spar Gesetz zustimmen und wurden umgehend aus der Partei ausgeschlossen. Ansonsten gibt es ja seit 2 Jahren Randale ohne Ende
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Griechen protestieren gegen Sparpaket —
Mehr als 120 Verletzte bei schweren Ausschreitungen
Das Parlament in Griechenland verabschiedet ein
neues Sparpaket - parallel dazu bricht sich auf den Straßen Athens die
Wut über geplante Lohnkürzungen und Massenentlassungen Bahn.
Demonstranten plündern Läden und werfen Brandsätze, Häuser gehen in
Flammen auf. Athen werde "als Hebel benutzt, um das Land zu
destabilisieren", sagt Bürgermeister Giorgos Kaminis.
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ATHENS | Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:33pm EST
(Reuters) - Greece's parliament approved a deeply unpopular austerity
bill Monday to secure a second EU/IMF bailout and avoid national
bankruptcy, as buildings burned across central Athens and violence
spread around the country.
Cinemas, cafes, shops and banks
were set ablaze in central Athens and black-masked protesters fought
riot police outside parliament before lawmakers voted on the package
that demands deep pay, pension and job cuts -- the price of a 130
billion euro ($172 billion) bailout needed to keep the country afloat.
State television reported the violence
spread to the tourist islands of Corfu and Crete, the northern city of
Thessaloniki and towns in central Greece. Police said 150 shops were looted in the capital and 34 buildings set ablaze.
Altogether 199 of the 300 lawmakers
backed the bill, but 43 deputies from the two parties in the government
of Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, the socialists and conservatives,
rebelled by voting against It. They were immediately expelled by their
parties.
Asian shares and the euro gained
modestly Monday, relieved by the Greek parliament's passage of
austerity measures that put the country a step closer to securing a
much-needed bailout fund and avoiding a messy default.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan edged up as much as 0.3 percent on the news.
The rebellion and street violence
foreshadowed the problems the Greek government faces in implementing
the cuts, which include a 22 percent reduction in the minimum wage -- a
package critics say condemns the economy to an ever-deeper downward
spiral.
Papademos, a technocrat brought in to
get a grip on the crisis, denounced the worst breakdown of order since
2008, when violence gripped Greece for weeks after police shot a
15-year-old schoolboy.....more..
02/02/2012
The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies
(IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle
East and the Balkans. George Protopapas, Research Associate - Media
Analyst at Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS)
has analyzed Greece’s international profile and financial crisis. His
article “GREECE’S INTERNATIONAL PROFILE AND FINANCIAL CRISIS” is
published in its entirety.
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