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On the billards table: unemployment
On the balls: public servants
First player (Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek minister of administrative reform): “The mobility game begins”
Second player (Michalis Karchimakis, general secretary of socialist party PASOK): “You strike first, Kyriakos!”
EU finance ministers agreed on July 8 to issue new loans for Greece in exchange for the country pledging to cut 15,000 public service jobs. At the same time, the Greek government is preparing a previously-decided mobility plan for another 12,500 involuntary transfers and possible dismissals in its civil service between now and September.
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