Greece Will To Fight Corruption


The Greek government confirmed that combating corruption will be done by politicians in an effort to restore public confidence. This effort will be done amid a public outcry against the debt crisis, which also sink the euro currency performance.

Government spokesman George Petalotis, Saturday (15/05/2010) local time Sunday when Indonesia, revealed the matter to the agency. “The government wants to clean up the politicians and ordinary people, so that cooperation between us will be cleaner, and confidence increases,” he said.

For decades, Greece has become a kind of tolerating corruption that plague. But the financial crisis has prompted the government to act decisively, in an effort to restore the bailout amounted to 140 billion U.S. dollars to the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Investors the world, is now being studied Greek citizen reaction to the payroll deductions, tax Abner, and also reactions from the parties there. Saturday yesterday, about 12,000 members of the Communist Party for example, berunjukrasa in Athens, waving red flags and shouting slogans against the administration.

Thursday, May 20, 2010, trade unions in Greece have called a strike for 24 hours. The strike was supported by the socialists. Possibly, they will also call for a general election.

However, the popularity of Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou, in fact is still strong and reached 60 percent. Meanwhile, in a survey last weekend, as many as 51 percent of Greeks supported the bailout of the European Union and the IMF as a way out of crisis.


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