Germans group stages protest in Athens, demanding payment of WWII reparations

A group of German citizens gathered in protest outside the German Embassy in Athens on Monday to demand that German authorities pay Greece war reparations for Nazi atrocities committed during World War II.

Based in Hamburg, the group "Distomo" is made up mainly of German citizens and relatives of the victims of German occupation troops in Greece.
Members of the group stressed that the amount due in restitution for atrocities plus interest comes to the sum of 126 billion euro, or roughly one third of Greece's total debt.
According to veteran Greek politician Manolis Glezos, who is head of an organisation seeking payment of the German reparations to Greece, Germany has a financial and moral obligation toward Greece and the total sum due, if one added unpaid war reparations, a loan that Greece was forced to make to Axis forces during its occupation and the damage to the Greek economy during that period, is as high as 1.5 trillion euro.
The Distomo group's lawyers Martin Klinger and Gabriele Heinecke stressed that Germany had an obligation to withdraw its appeal at the International Court of Justice against an Italian court ruling awarding compensation to relatives of the victims of the Distomo Massacre.


source: http://www.hri.org/news/greek/ana/2011/11-06-07.ana.html#09

500,000 people in Syntagma Square!

Sunday june 5th 2011

source:

http://www.zougla.gr/page.ashx?pid=2&aid=324953&cid=4

source:

http://www.real.gr/DefaultArthro.aspx?page=arthro&id=72133&catID=3

source:

http://www.newsbeast.gr/greece/arthro/181140/enothikan-upo-to-sunthima-ellas-ellas/

Greek people work more than any other European people

 http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/qualityoflife/eurlife/index.php?template=3&radioindic=175&idDomain=2

Countries	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	Countries
AT	38.4	38.3	37.9	37.9	39.9	39.3	39.2	AT
BE	37.1	37.5	37.5	37.4	36.9	37		BE
DK	36.1	36.2	35.8	35.9	35.6	35.6	35.3	DK
FI	38.5	38.4	38.2	38	37.9	37.7		FI
FR	37.2	36.8	36.3	37.9	37.9	38	38.1	FR
DE	37.1	36.7	36.5	35.9	36	35.7		DE
EL	43.2	43.3	43.2	43.4	43	43.1	42.7	EL
IE	38	37.7	37.5	37	36.9	36.8		IE
IT	39.1	39.1	39.1	39	38.8	38.6	38.6	IT
LU	38.4	38.2	38	38.1	37.7	37.5		LU
NL	31.8	31.6	31.1	30.9	30.8	30.7	30.9	NL
PT	39.7	39.5	39.5	39.1	39.3	39.2	39.1	PT
ES	40.2	40.1	39.9	39.7	39.6	39.4	39.4	ES
SE	36.6	36.7	36.7	36.5	36.4	36.5	36.4	SE
UK	37.6	37.7	37.4	37.2	37	37	36.9	UK
EU-15	37.8	37.6	37.4	37.4	37.4	37.3		EU-15

[Source of this data: Eurostat ]

Abbreviations

• Countries

  AT : Austria BE : Belgium DK : Denmark FI : Finland FR : France DE : Germany EL : Greece IE : Ireland IT : Italy LU : Luxembourg

  NL : Netherlands PT : Portugal ES : Spain SE : Sweden UK : United Kingdom EU-15 : 15 EU Member States (before May 2004)