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se steep cuts in private sector pay demanded by the eurozone and IMF. The new euro130 billion ($171 billion) bailout deal is vital for Greece to avoid bankruptcy next month as it cannot cover a euro14.5 billion ($19.1 billion) bond repayment due March 20 without the rescue funds. The debt-crippled country has been kept solvent since May 2010 by payments from a euro110 billion ($145 billion) international rescue loan package. When it became clear the money would not be enough, a second bailout was decided last October. Its implementation depends on Greece's progress in separate talks with banks and other private bondholders to forgive euro100 billion ($131.6 billion) in Greek debt, in exchange for a cash payment and new bonds with more lenient repayment terms. Over the weekend, Greek officials held a conference call with eurozone finance ministers, as well as exhaustive rounds of talks in Athens with EU-IMF debt inspectors, senior bank negotiators, and Greek political party leaders, to try and hammer out a deal on the new cutbacks. Greeks have already been subjected to a spate of austerity measures in return for the rescue loans, suffering significant cuts in pensions and salaries coupled with repeated tax hikes and an increase in retirement ages. Angry at the prospect of new pain after two years of harsh austerity, Greece's main GSEE labor union and the ADEDY civil servants' union called a new general strike for Tuesday. "Together with the GSEE, we have just decided to hold a 24-hour strike tomorrow, to be accompanied by a protest march in central Athens," ADEDY secretary-general Ilias Iliopoulos told the AP,toms outlet. An announcement from Papademos' office late Sunday said agreement had been reached to cut 2012 spending by 1,http://bbs.dongmannet.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1934061.5 percent of gross domestic product about euro3.3 billion ($4.3 billion) improve competitiveness by slashing wages and non-wage costs,tomsoutletsalecheap.com, and re-capitalize banks without nationalizing them. But the three coalition backers Socialist George Papandreou,http://groups.google.com/group/b2evolution-pt/msg/, Conservative Antonis Samaras and George Karatzaferis of the rightwing populist LAOS party differed as to what this would mean in detailed proposals. Party leaders had undertaken to provide an initial response on the demanded cutbacks before their Monday evening meeting with Papademos, a Socialist party spokesman said. However, the prime minister's office said there was no formal demand for a response, while the conservatives and LAOS said they were not planning to issue one. "We are in the middle of a major struggle. Right now, the developments are satisfactory," said Karatzaferis, adding that EU-IMF negotiators had backed away from a demand to ax annual salary installments given to Greek workers as holiday bonuses. Rescue lenders are also seeking firings in Greece's large public sector, a drop in the euro750 ($985) gross minimum monthly wage, and cuts in lump-sum retirement payouts, as part of a long list of cost-cutting demands,cheap toms shoes,http://www.cpashare.com/2008/03/19/co-hosted-the-shoemoney-show-last-night-pretty-cool/. Unions and employers' associations oppose the wage cuts, arguing it would worsen a recession in its fourth year and increase unemploy
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