Athens (AFP) - Union demonstrators Friday occupy the Ministry of finance Greek, calling a general strike, as the Prime Minister flew to Luxembourg for interviews key on a new loan of EU and the IMF now finalize agreement.
Members of the union Communist-affiliated PAME deployed a giant banner from the roof of the Ministry on the central square Syntagma, call to mobilization against a wave coming from additional austerity measures and sales of assets.
"Dawn forces today the PAME symbolically occupied the Ministry of finance, calling on workers to increase, organise their fight and prevent measures of the barbaric and anti-popular Government passing,"the affiliated Union of Communist said."
Protesters replaced the flag of the European Union on the roof of the Ministry with a banner of PAME and implemented speakers screaming slogans and songs.
"This is our debt to fight for our children," said a message recorded, followed by a refrain of the song: "No, we do not sell."
A senior unionist PAME, George Perros, said that the Group intended to remain in the Department to evening.
"Stay us here until 7 pm (1600 GMT) and join a protest PAME street in the Centre of Athens," he told AFP.
Prime Minister George Papandreou is due to Luxembourg later Friday for talks with the Chief decision maker of the euro area and Jean-Claude Trichet on the economic crisis of the Greece.
Athens needs to a slice of 12 billion euros ($17 billion), part of a rescue loan 110 billion euro global EU Monetary Fund International and the European Central Bank to pay the Bills of the following month.
But with its economy still in the doldrums, Greece tries to broker additional loans of the so-called "troika" which has saved from bankruptcy last year.
Greek newspapers reported Friday that tortuous talks with the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank for the 12 billion dollars-euro loan instalment had concluded and that announcements were planned later in the day.
Financial daily Naftemboriki spoke of a new "three-year rescue deal" in exchange for a new loan more than 60 billion euros ($86 billion).
"A report (on the conclusion of the negotiations) and the new package of aid coming is to be announced today, according to sources, said pro-Government daily Ta Nea.".
The new rescue contract must be taken by the Ministers of finance Europe, a meeting on 20 June Ta Nea added.
The talks of the EU and the IMF have dragged on for an unprecedented four weeks, raising the concern that a disastrous deadlock was imminent.
Additional austerity measures adopted by the Government for a new rescue plan sparked anger mounting.
And a drive to privatize euro 50 billion to reduce the debt, including the large firms such as telecoms main of the country and electricity operators, has caused more indignation.
Thursday, Government spokesman George Petalotis was harassed and bombed with fruit and pots of yoghurt by protesters, as happens to give a speech to the House of the people an elder in the suburb of Athens of Argyroupoli.
Later, he was evacuated by the police without injury.
The Government has awarded the incident on the small party of the left-wing Coalition which has led to demonstrations against the Government and whose young leader Alexis Tsipras equated famous Greek PM of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Since last week, tens of thousands of Greeks are gathered together in the Syntagma Square main Athens, to protest against the successive waves of reduction of expenses and hiking who brought a deep recession and many layoffs of tax.
Country's main unions Thursday called another general strike on June 15, the third this year against government economic policy and a series of mobilizations June 9 to State enterprises under privatization.
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