Giorgos Katrougalos

The government is trying to show that Greece’s labour reforms is European and any changes will not just concern the country, Labour Minister Giorgos Katrougalos told Praktorio FM radio shortly after a meeting in Geneva with the head of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Guy Ryder,

Main opposition New Democracy on Wednesday took straight aim at a law passed by the leftist SYRIZA government that allows rogue civil servants and professionals employed in the narrow or wider public to return to their posts while their cases are before the courts or disciplinary boards.

The opposition continued to keep up the heat on the government this week, with 20 center-right ND deputies on Wednesday tabling a question in Parliament on whether a current minister owns an … offshore company and if another minister exported significant amounts of money overseas a month before the January election.

PM Alexis Tsipras announced a Greek government reshuffle on Friday afternoon, expected since an earlier vote in Parliament this week, replacing “dissident” minister Panagiotis Lafazanis with MP Panos Skourletis at the production reconstruction ministry.

Not one, not two but… 15 amendments added by ruling SYRIZA party MPs to a wide-ranging draft bill on public administration generated a firestorm of criticism in Parliament on Tuesday, with howls from the opposition of petty partisan politics and “client state” relations.

Health Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis on Monday unveiled a plan aimed at helping some 2.5 million uninsured citizens gain access to free healthcare.

Under Kouroublis?s plan, which is expected to be enforced by next month, millions of uninsured citizens will be able to apply for health booklets at Citizens? Information Centers (KEPs).

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Alternate Administrative Reform Minister Giorgos Katrougalos' previous work as a lawyer raises serious ethical and political issues according to the Sunday edition of To Vima newspaper.

The process of listing the changes needed in the civil service should be completed in the next six months, Alternate Administrative Reform Minister Giorgos Katrougalos told Kathimerini.

?The reform must be effective,? he said in an interview. ?But I want it to be done in six months. We have to take advantage of the momentum.?

Alternate Administrative Reform Minister Giorgos Katrougalos revealed on Wednesday that it will cost almost 25 million euros to rehire some 3,900 civil servants the government believes were fired illegally but that this money would be obtained by making savings elsewhere.