The new bill on the unified real estate tax to be effective as of January 1st 2014 has been submitted for discussion to the Greek Parliament.

The extraordinary real estate tax that has been implemented thus far is to be replaced by a permanent one applicable to all forms of real estate such as farms, plots of lands whether arable or not, even barns.

New Democracy and PASOK signed a programmatic agreement on the two parties’ collaboration in a single front of responsibility under the flag of a “National Restructure Plan” according to the announcement released after the meeting between Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos.

It is underlined that the main condition for the national target to be attained is the political stability and the present government’s remaining in office for the rest of its four-year term.

European Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Olli Rehn, dismissed the Greek government’s claim that the memorandum era is close to an end. The commissioner has made it clear that the country will remain under fiscal supervision until a 75% of the debt has been paid back to the Eurozone and EFSF. He also mentioned that discussions on the Greek national debt viability are postponed until summer 2014

Half a million pensioners receive less than 500 euros per month according to data released by the Social Security Foundation (IKA) employees.

The total amount of social security contributions owed to the Foundation is up to 10 billion euros.  

According to a research performed by the Centre for Educational Policy Development of the General Confederation of Greek Workers, unemployment among higher educated young people increased by 189% between the years 2008-2012.

The educational expenses for the Greek families were also increased by 61% in the years 2001-2011 while the total annual state expense per university student in Greece is in position 26 out of 28 European Union countries.