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More austerity for Greece GREEK PARLIAMENT APPROVES PUBLIC-SECTOR JOB CUTS AND TRANSFERS DEMANDED BY BAILOUT CREDITORS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATHENS — Greece’s Parliament narrowly approved a new batch of austerity measures early Thursday, including thousands of public-sector job cuts and transfers, demanded by the country’s creditors to keep vital bailout loans flowing. Lawmakers in the 300-seat house backed the cutbacks in an article-by-article vote, with two of the governing coalition’s 155 deputies failing to back crucial articles. It was the first major test for conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras since a left-wing party abandoned his coalition government last month. Greece has been kept out of bankruptcy since it started receiving rescue loans in 2010 from the International Monetary Fund and other countries using the euro, but austerity measures imposed in return have caused a dramatic increase in poverty and unemployment. The new legislation will put 12,500 public-sector staff, mostly teachers and municipal workers, in a program that subjects them to involuntary transfers and possible dismissals. It will also pave the way for 15,000 layoffs by the end of next year. City halls across the country have been closed this week, with uncollected rubbish piling up on the streets, and unions held a general strike on Tuesday against the proposed cuts. “I fully understand the hardship the Greek people are going through during the great crisis,” Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said during the debate. “But I am fully convinced that the path we have chosen is correct.” Some 3,000 people protested outside Parliament in central Athens ahead of the vote, chanting anti-austerity slogans in a third straight day of protests. But the reaction — in the midst of the summer holiday season — was subdued compared to previous, often violent demonstrations that brought tens of thousands into the streets. The crucial after-midnight vote came hours before a visit to Athens by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, planned amid security measures that Greece’s left-wing main opposition party denounced as “fascist and undemocratic.” The measures include a ban of all demonstrations in the city centre, including the area out-
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Municipal police officers gesture as they participate in a anti-austerity rally outside the Greek parliament in central Athens, Wednesday. Anti-austerity protests have been taking place in Athens ahead of the Greek parliament’s vote to introduce thousands of public-sector job cuts and transfers. side Parliament that has been the focus of past violent protests. The 13-month-old coalition government claims it has already made progress in stabilizing the shattered economy. On Wednesday, Samaras made a televised statement to announce a sales tax cut for restaurant and catering services from 23 per cent to 13 per cent — the first tax reduction since the crisis started in late 2009. Greece’s lurching attempts to implement its austerity pledges, coupled with political upheaval in Portugal — which is also in a bailout program — have renewed fears that Europe’s debt troubles could flare up again. Samaras is due later Thursday to hold talks with Schaeuble, who is expected to discuss a program of German support for small and medium-sized Greek businesses. And on Sunday, he will meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, who will stop in Athens on his way back from a G-20 meeting in Moscow. A Treasury Department statement said Lew’s visit comes
ahead of a planned meeting between Samaras and U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington next month. Schaeuble, widely resented in Greece as the driving force behind the country’s painful cutbacks, said his one-day trip is meant to display confidence in Greek efforts at recovery. “I can well understand people in Greece — it’s just that we have to help Greece get on a better path,” he told Germany’s ARD television Wednesday evening. “The only thing that will really help people in Greece is achieving better economic development, they are on the right track ... it will continue to pay off.” But public sector staff targeted in the cuts said there was no justification for their treatment. Sitting on the hot asphalt under an umbrella during a protest Wednesday, 47-year-old Maria Denida joined other women who travelled from the northern city of Thessaloniki to protest outside parliament, together with many of the country’s mayors. “I’ve been a school guard for 13 years and suddenly we find out
we have no job. They say we’ll be suspended. But that means we’ll be fired,” Denida said, her voice cracking with emotion. “All of us have kids, unemployed people at home, and bills we can’t pay. We were getting 780 euros ($1,000) a month. And if we lose that, we’re finished.” Municipal police officers from around Greece rallied through the capital’s centre with their motorcycles and patrol cars. The force, whose duties include monitoring street vendors and parking, is due to be disbanded and incorporated into national police after officers are suspended on reduced pay for up to eight months. “We cannot understand why this is happening,” union head Apostolos Kossivas told The Associated Press. “We asked the government if there was any financial gain — they said no. Did we provide a bad service? — They said no.” “So we think they just wanted to make up the quota they needed for job cuts, and are proceeding without a plan,” Kossivas said.
Snag over Buy-America rules stalls plan to build high-speed train BETWEEN SOCAL AND LAS VEGAS review, although XpressWest could revive it by making significant revisions. The vast park-and-ride project hinges on the untested idea that Southern Californians will drive to the high desert community of Victorville, about 100 miles east of Los Angeles, pull off Interstate 15 and board a train for the final 180 miles to the famous Strip.
have asked the administration to BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS scuttle the loan, saying it would be a risky bet with scarce taxpayer dolLOS ANGELES — The U.S. Delars. Earlier, the project had moved partment of Transportation has steadily through a series of regulasuspended its review of a $5.5 biltory hurdles, and company officials lion loan request that is critical for had expected a decision on the loan building a private bullet train besometime in 2012. tween a Southern California desert The AP reported last year community and the Las Vegas Strip, that the company’s own research leaving the future of the project in warned that it’s difficult to predict jeopardy. how many people will The Obama adminisride the train, a crititration has been eager ‘AS A NATION WE ARE SORT OF IN A cal measure of finanto develop new highcial survival. speed rail corridors CHICKEN AND EGG SITUATION, SINCE THERE Senate Majoracross the U.S., and for- IS NO HIGH-SPEED RAIL INDUSTRY YET, YOU ity Leader Harry Reid mer Transportation Secand other supportCAN’T BUY THE TRAINS IN AMERICA.’ retary Ray LaHood had ers point to research publicly blessed the — ANDY KUNZ, PRESIDENT OF THE that shows 80,000 new proposed train, known US HIGH SPEED RAIL ASSOCIATION jobs, but government as XpressWest. documents show virBut the project tually all those would stalled in part because of a snag The 150 mph train’s projected be temporary. over federal rules that call for the price tag has soared toward $7 bilNo more than 722 would be perline to be constructed and run with lion, and XpressWest wants a $5.5 manent, the AP found. American-made materials. billion government loan to cover Nevada-based XpressWest is The government expects loan the bulk of the cost, with the re- headed by CEO Anthony Marnell II, recipients “to purchase steel, iron mainder covered by private financ- a casino developer and contractor and other manufactured goods pro- ing. whose credits include building the duced in the United States for their Andy Kunz, president of the US Bellagio and Wynn Las Vegas. projects,” LaHood wrote in the two- High Speed Rail Association, said According to the Department of page letter to the company, which the trade group supports rules pro- Transportation, the Buy-America was released by the agency Tues- moting investment in U.S. equip- rules ensure that projects are built day. ment and materials but believes with American-made products. Last After long-running negotiations, they should be relaxed for the in- year, company officials said Canadihe said the company’s plan “does dustry until it gains a firmer foot- an transportation giant Bombardier not meet our expectations” and did hold in the U.S. was serving as a strategic adviser to not justify departing from domestic“As a nation we are sort of in XpressWest and wanted to supply manufacturing rules. a chicken and egg situation, since its rail cars, but it wasn’t clear from “After several years of engage- there is no high-speed rail indus- the letter if that relationship was at ment with no resolution ... and the try yet, you can’t buy the trains in issue. significant uncertainties still sur- America,” Kunz said. “There is noBombardier spokeswoman rounding the project, we have de- body making them (in the U.S.) be- Maryanne Roberts directed quescided to suspend further consider- cause there hasn’t been a market.” tions about the project to Xpressation of XpressWest’s loan request,” The project also faces compe- West. Bombardier has been buildLaHood wrote in the June 28 letter, tition from a high-speed rail line ing rail cars for the U.S. market parts of which were redacted. championed by Gov. Jerry Brown since 1976. The decision to suspend the re- that would link Northern and South“We have a long and successful view represents a major setback for ern California and run through the record of meeting Buy-America rea project that has been alternately Central Valley. quirements,” Roberts said. described as glimpse of America’s Word of LaHood’s decision surReid, the project’s most promitransportation future or a waste of faced last week, but the letter pro- nent supporter, said in a statement taxpayer dollars. vided insight into the government’s he would continue to work “to seXpressWest said in a statement concerns with what would be, by cure this vital investment for Nethat the project remains under fed- far, the largest loan ever issued by vada.” He told reporters in Washeral review and it is awaiting more the Federal Railroad Administra- ington on Wednesday the White information from the government. tion’s Railroad Rehabilitation & House is concerned that Marnell Federal Railroad Administration Improvement Financing program. hasn’t fully met financial requirespokesman Kevin Thompson said Top congressional Republicans ments. the application is no longer under
Muslim student confirmed to university board; some Jewish groups object THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — The University of California’s governing board confirmed its first practicing Muslim student member, despite opposition from some Jewish groups. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, StandWithUs, conservative commentator David Horowitz and others had called on the board to reject UC Berkeley student Sadia Saifuddin’s appointment, alleging that some of her political activities as a student senator and member of the Muslim Students Association make her unqualified to represent students. Those activities included co-sponsoring a bill calling for the divestment of university funds from companies with economic ties to the Israeli military or Israeli settlements on the West Bank. She also authored a resolution condemning a UC Santa Cruz lecturer who had linked the Muslim Students Association with terrorism “for inciting racist and Islamophobic rhetoric.” “She is prominent in the anti-Israel boycott campaign, an extremist movement that demonized the Jewish state, rejects dialogue, and fosters bigotry,” Roberta Seid, a research-education director at StandWithUs, an organization promoting education of Israel, told regents before the vote. Saifuddin, 21, said after the vote that she expected opposition and hoped that people would look beyond her political activity to other things she has done.