“Fast track” assessment of the economy in the midst of a general strike

Outstanding pensions, court decisions on retroactive pension amounts, raising the minimum wage and the financial productivity incentives of civil servants introduced by the government, are once again entering the crisis of the European institutions, according to the 14th assessment of the national economy.

This is a "fast track" process that started yesterday and will be completed tomorrow, but at the same time it is the most critical "test", as it will judge - to a large extent - the progress of Greece and its exit from the regime of enhanced supervision, next June.

The issues to be addressed by European technocrats are - to a large extent - identical to those addressed by the International Monetary Fund in its report on the Greek economy where progress is being made, but also describes the existing uncertainties and the points where "special and restrained manipulations ".

At the same time that the institutions are putting the elements of the economy under their microscope, tomorrow - the first after a long time - a general 24-hour strike has been announced by a decision of General Workers Confederation GSEE and Civil Servants Union ADEDY, with the organizations reacting to the generalized wave of precision that "disappears" workers' incomes and claim high wage increases.

The "heavy" labor issues on the table

All "heavy" labor issues will be raised in the discussions of the experts with the representatives of the government. Analytically:

1. The outstanding pensions for which the previous evaluation report had "praised" the government for the progress made in the previous months. While the representatives of the Ministry of Labor had assured the European institutions that at the end of the first half of 2022 this problem...

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