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A large crowd...
A large crowd of university students protested outside Parliament yesterday, protesting a reduction in state funding and new legislation foreseeing stricter assessment of state universities and the creation of private colleges... |
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Scourge of financial waste
Americans were justifiably enraged by the luxury holidays taken by AIG managers, paid for from company coffers on the pretext that it was an «executive meeting.» Europeans are also justifiably up in arms by the expensive dinners of Fortis executives in Monaco, because both these companies were rescued from collapse at the last minute with taxpayers' money.
At such a time of financial uncertainty, when taxpayers are being asked to dig deep, squandering money for the purposes of «public relations» is truly infuriating. The examples of the two companies and the reaction from ordinary people should serve as a lesson to the Greek government, because the state lives off taxpayers' money. Even without the international credit crunch, demands on taxpayers are constantly rising and such squandering of money becomes unacceptable. |
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A deluge of despair
In the last nine months, close to 11,000 illegal immigrants were intercepted by the coast guard as they tried to enter Greece through the eastern islands that lie close to Turkey. Some are dumped on islets by smugglers using super-fast boats that can cover the distance from Turkish waters to Greek territory in five minutes, before heading back to safety, leaving the Greeks to pick up the burden of human misery shivering on the Aegean's bare rocks. |
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