Athens, Greece - the Greece struggle to implement the new of austerity and avoid default installs in a critical phase Thursday as Prime Minister George Papandreou pressed his Cabinet for approval and international creditors chided the country for its lax efforts.
The new measures - budget cuts and a liquidation of the assets of the State in businesses and real estate - are a prerequisite for the Greece receive the next part of its rescue (161 billion dollars) European billion plan granted a year ago.
Without the payment of the Greece billion euro12, which remains mired in recession and locked out on international bond default on its massive debts.
Papandreou and his ministers were the subject of intense criticism of their own members of the Socialist Party in a series of meetings of marathon on the plans. They include a repair euro6.4 billion ($9.4 billion) package of cuts and hikes tax for this year, a reader of austerity renewed for 2012-2015 and a programme of privatisation ($73 billion) euro50 billion.
Pressure on Papandreou and his Government is more important than ever, with international creditors of the country claim a cross-party support for the rescue package and to openly criticize the slow pace of reforms.
"After a fort in the summer 2010, came under the reform implementation to a standstill in recent quarters,"the European Union, the European Central Bank and Monetary Fund International wrote in a summary of their recent evaluation of the efforts of the Greece."." The Associated Press obtained a copy Thursday.
The three institutions, known as the troika, also cited "political risks" to the implementation of the programme of privatization in their conclusions, which were distributed between the Finance Ministers of the euro on Wednesday and budget cuts.
"Those doubts on the ability and the willingness of the company and the Greek Government to persevere in fiscal consolidation and restoration of competitiveness" are the main likely reason for the Greece will be not able to access new financial markets, leading to serious deficiencies in funding next year, the troika concluded.
While the General problems with the bailout of the Greece are known for some time, the summary of the report of the troika is much more critical than the prior statements.
The report also details some of the additional expenditure reduction measures the Greek Government plans to take over the coming year. To meet the objectives set out in the programme, the Government has to make budget cuts and other measures worth approximately 10 per cent of the production between 2011 and 2014, said of the troika.
Among those who are wage and job cuts in the public sector, a reduction in administrative and defence spending, savings in State enterprises, expenditure on health, pensions and disability services, said the report. Only 1 in 10 vacant posts in the public sector will be completed this year, and only one in five will be completed until 2015.
The Government also plans to raise taxes on fuel, property, beverages and tobacco, as well as restaurants and bars.
Some of the additional reductions are needed because the economy of the Greece did worse than expected, when the rescue plan was announced last.
In the first quarter, the gross domestic product of the Greece reduced 5.5% a year earlier, the national statistics Office said Thursday. The troika expected now of economy of the Greece to shrink by 3.8% in 2011, worse than the percentage of 3.5 abandon EU does predict that in May.
Without additional measures this year, the Greece budget deficit would remain more than 10% of economic output, the troika stated, the way off the coast of the 7.5 per cent target set out in the programme and also the prediction of 9.5% by the European Union last month.
The shrinkage of the economy has not only led to holes in the revenues of the Government, but has also caused difficulties for citizens.
Greek State-run enterprises workers walked off work Thursday to protest against the privatization of the Government plan because they fear that will lead to more jobs and salary reductions.
Under the slogan "we do not sell", they pass through the Centre of Athens.
Public transport workers walked off the coast of employment in the early morning and the end of the evening, then that port workers, post offices and banks called for a 24-hour strike. Television station technicians were also on strike, as were journalists in the diffuser of State-run, disrupting programing news live. A general strike was called for June 15.
Angry Greeks resumed the central Syntagma Square, establishment of a city attempts a sit-in. tens of thousands of people inhabited the square, which is located in front of the Parliament, last Sunday.
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Contributed by Derek Gatopoulos in Athens and Juergen Baetz in Berlin. Steinhauser contributed Berlin.
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