Greek Parliament has seek to cut 15,000
government jobs by the end of next year, as a condition for a new trench of
loans worth 8.8 bn euros. European leaders will be meeting on Monday to discuss
the release of 2.8bn euros (the remaining 6bn will be paid by the 13th
of May). The bill passed by 168 votes to 123, displaying an increasingly
divided parliament. As the bill was being discussed, demonstrations took place
outside the government building calling for an end to austerity measures and
condemning the overturning of a law that guaranteed government servants a job
for life. Austerity in Greece has been reaching its limits, causing now nothing
but increasing unemployment, civil unrest and divisions among government
representative, which could potentially destroy the political integrity of
Greece and plunge its society into chaos and anarchism in the case of a fall of
the democratic regime by divisive forces within then leadership strata.
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