Greece: winter will be under a strain as well

The memorandum, part 3, addresses the following issues:
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nt breathe for a while. The results, in spite of record abstention (over 50% in a country where voting is mandatory) were rather favorable, whereas it was afraid of a rejection of its austerity policy. Finance Minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou has called on the citizens to keep making sacrifices to support efforts to stabilize the Greek economy and increase businesses’ competitiveness when introducing the memorandum, number 3, which notably provides for increased flexibility on the labor mark

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