The siege of the port of Piraeus by unionists of the Communist Party continues, with some of the strikers having closed the entrances to the piers, while others having climbed on the gates of ships traveling to the islands of the Argosaronic Gulf.
"Thieves and cheaters" and "Let this brothel burn down" were the slogans that protesters chanted as they were trying to break the police cordon, which guards the parliament building on Syntagma Square in Athens.
An incredible story about the waste of public money discloses publicly data about payments in the amount of 26 million euro per year for 140 employees, huge salaries for officials and wasted money on the broadcasting of the matches of the football club Olympiakos and the football team of Xanthi respectively for the amount of 7.5 million and 2.5 million a year, reveals Imerisiya Journal.
The reforms in the pension security system and the labor relations gathered once again the two largest unions of Greece in a common strike against the policy of the government of George Papandreou. The government announced that it will not step back from the planned changes.
The new leadership of the opposition New Democracy party is now in place after its Eighth Congress ended as an indisputable leader remains Antonis Samaras. At the Congress were made administrative changes, while the big surprise was left on July 6, when Mr. Samaras will present his program for economic recovery. Party members voted also for political committee, but the most interesting is that were elected two deputy chairmen of the party just in case who are Dimitris Avramopoulos and Stavros Dimas.