{"id":4968,"date":"2015-01-28T11:48:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T16:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2015-01-28T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T16:48:29","slug":"the-barricades-are-down-syriza-is-already-rolling-back-austerity-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4968","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Barricades Are Down&#8221; Syriza Is Already Rolling Back Austerity &#8220;Reforms&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-01-28\/barricades-are-down-syriza-already-rolling-back-austerity-reforms\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Barricades Are Down&#8221; Syriza Is Already Rolling Back Austerity &#8220;Reforms&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>It didn&#8217;t take long for Syriza to start making changes in Greece.\u00a0<\/strong>While these may be minor at the margin compared to the debt &#8220;issues&#8221;, as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keeptalkinggreece.com\/2015\/01\/28\/greek-government-fast-forward-with-anti-austerity-measures\/\">KeepTalkingGreece reports<\/a>, Alexis Tsipras and his junior coalition partner Panos Kammenos pushed the Fast Forward button to\u00a0<strong>restore a series of so-called \u201creforms\u201d, that is austerity measures imposed by the country\u2019s lenders, the Troika<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; among the left-wing reforms are:\u00a0<em>scrapping planned privatizations, scrapping fees in public hospitals and prescriptions, restore \u201cthe 13th pension\u201d for low-pensioners and other actions that SYRIZA had promised before the elections<\/em>.\u00a0<strong>And the iron barricades in front of Parliament have been removed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keeptalkinggreece.com\/2015\/01\/28\/greek-government-fast-forward-with-anti-austerity-measures\/\"><em>Via Keep Talking Greece<\/em><\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iron Barricades<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first\u00a0<em>revolutionary move<\/em>\u00a0was conducted by alternate Minister responsible for Citizens\u2019 Protection and Public Order. Yiannis Panousis removed the iron barricades in front of the Greek Parliament. The barricades were installed to protect the lawmakers from angry demonstrators after the huge anti-austerity protests from 2010 onwards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Barricades Are Down&#8221; Syriza Is Already Rolling Back Austerity &#8220;Reforms&#8221; It didn&#8217;t take long for Syriza to start making changes in Greece.\u00a0While these may be minor at the margin compared to the debt &#8220;issues&#8221;, as\u00a0KeepTalkingGreece reports, Alexis Tsipras and his junior coalition partner Panos Kammenos pushed the Fast Forward button to\u00a0restore a series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[40,1167,2286,2236,2868,2991],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-austerity","tag-greece","tag-greek-parliament","tag-syriza","tag-troika","tag-yiannis-panousis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4969,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}