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Hospital stretcher bearer contracts swine flu
The number of swine flu cases in Greece rose to 108 yesterday after another seven people tested positive for the virus, the Health Ministry said. One of the new sufferers is a stretcher bearer working at Athens's Sismanogleio Hospital (photo) which has been handling most of the suspect cases appearing in the capital. |
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Shameful union practices
It is indeed an extremely shameful practice on the part of trade unionists to seize control of office buildings and prevent staff from exercising their lawful right to work, as a means of enforcing strike action.
Such action undertaken yesterday by union bosses at the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) not only constituted an outright violation of the country's labor laws, but was in fact an insult to the personnel employed by the organization, whom they are supposed to be representing. |
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Method or madness?
Greece's policy regarding illegal immigrants used to be very successful: People caught trying to sneak into the country were either forced back across the border or were abandoned to their fate, in the knowledge that the migrants would do all in their power to keep moving on toward more welcoming members of the European Union. Of the hundreds of thousands of people from places like Afghanistan and Pakistan, a small minority chose to seek their fortune in Greece - a country that provided no benefits but did offer more work than what these (mostly) unskilled young men could find at home. In the last couple of years, however, things have become more difficult for those trying to get to more western or northern EU countries, leading to a large concentration of illegal immigrants in some Greek cities, especially Athens and Patras. |
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