ATHENS, Dec 3 Striking Greek workers marched through Athens on Thursday and disrupted public transport, schools and shipping in the second big protest in three weeks against planned pension reforms, but turnout was lower amid a mood of resignation. Riot police did not intervene, and the incident was over within minutes, police said. Tsipras also faces a threat from some European Union governments to suspend it from the passport-free travel system unless it tightens control of its borders.
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Tsipras finds himself in a precarious political position since his leftist-nationalist coalition in November saw its parliamentary majority whittled to 153 deputies in the 300-seat parliament after a divisive vote on home foreclosures – another measure demanded by worldwide creditors.
“We applaud the Greek government for moving forward on the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline and the Greece-Bulgaria interconnector”. The official added that at the moment Greece and its creditors are in the middle of a process with 2 billion euros already having been disbursed, the results of banks’ stress tests known, two banks not requiring any state support, one bank having had its recapitalization determined, and the results for another set to be known fairly soon.
Prior to the tripartite summit, Sisi will hold two-way meetings with the Greek prime minister followed by a meeting with the Cypriot president, it noted. These arguments may not convince Syriza governing party lawmakers, who had opposed the transfer of loans to “vulture funds” while in opposition. “We must work together as North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies, but also to meet global adjacency rules”, he said.
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More than 650,000 migrants and refugees have reached the Greek islands this year the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said last month. The crisis has stretched the country’s battered finances, following six years of recession that wiped out a quarter of its economic output and left public services struggling to cope with funding cuts.
