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This article was published May 9, 2016 at 08:31 hours.
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The greek Parliament voted in the night between Sunday and Monday pension cuts and new taxes on income despite protests resulted in clashes with police in the streets of Athens between those who oppose new austerity measures. The Alexis Tsipras Prime Minister stressed that the pension system “can not survive without a far-reaching reform.” All 153 members of his coalition who voted for the package, obvious choice to receive economic aid from international creditors. Today the ministers of the euro zone finance will meet to discuss the negotiations with battered Greece. The new rules approved by the government worth 3.6 billion euro of revenue increases and lower costs, a condition required by international creditors in order to launch the next tranche of aid.
Meanwhile, Greece is preparing to launch in the coming weeks a further 1.8 billion euro of indirect tax increases for a total of 5.4 billion euro. The move establishes a minimum pension of 384 Euros per month for 20 years of contributions but reduces the number of social security institutions. Also increasing social security contributions that go to 20% with 13.6% to the contractor cargo and 6.7% of the employee. also increases for the self-employed and farmers. It still boils once a minimum exemption of 8,800 euro the previous year by EUR 9,500. It creates an additional solidarity tax sull’Irpef.
The appeal, however, lack the emergency measures required by the IMF for another 2% of GDP to vote in case the first stair surplus of 3.5% in 2018 is not reached.
” We put it back up Greece at all costs. ” So Alexis Tsipras defended the new austerity measures, including reforms of pensions and taxation. Tsipras reiterated that the measures, which provide total cuts of 5.4 billion euro, will not affect the main pensions of a euro, while those in the opposition who complains of a wild increase in taxes in the past voted measures totaling of 62 million euro. “For the first time the agreement, however hard, can be applied,” concluded the greek prime minister.
While in Parliament were discussing the package, with the leader of the opposition party, Nea Dimokratiza, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who demanded the resignation of Tsipras, outside about 20 thousand people participated in a peaceful demonstration , during which, however, they broke out of the clashes with demonstrators who threw Molotov cocktails and other objects at police in Syntagma square, causing the response of agents who used tear gas. One of the protesters said the reform passed yesterday is “the tombstone to the pension system as we know it.”
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