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Greece intends to break 5,000 government employees

Reports said today that the Greek Government is considering separating more than 5,000 government employees by the end of the year in order to satisfy international lenders at a time when the country is awaiting the release of another slice of rescue aid, according to “German”.

And the austerity path to an obstacle earlier this week after being suspended negotiations between government officials and representatives of international lending agencies, the European Commission and the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund because of the many issues related to structural reforms.

And the “troika” inspectors left Athens Thursday with scheduled to return at the beginning of April, in a statement, they said: “the significant progress achieved, but there are still some outstanding issues, with both sides downplayed the significance of the failure to reach agreement on the next slide assistance worth 2.8 billion euros (3.7 billion dollars) to be released by the end of this month.

According to the kathimerini Greek newspaper report, the parties differ on the pace of writing off jobs in the Government sector and real estate tax emergency and how to recover unpaid taxes and social security contributions, the newspaper revealed the Government’s intention to separate the five thousand employees in the State sector by the end of the year in an effort to satisfy creditors of Greece.

And the Government failed to convince creditors to reduce VAT on restaurants and agreeing to reduce special consumption tax on heating fuel.

Long live Greece recession for the sixth consecutive year, unemployment rose to 26 per cent on record level during the last quarter of last year.