They radiate joy. It's the end of the ordeal for the cleaners who lost their jobs in 2013 and set up camp in front of the Finance Ministry in Athens in protest. The new Greek government announced Wednesday reintegration, a symbolic measure.
"We fought for 19 months. It was an exhausting struggle, frustrating, with many problems. And what we feel today is a bonus for everything we've been through all this time, "said Lili Giannakaki, one of them.
The new government has promised the adoption of social measures. Yanis Varoufakis, the finance minister, has also called on Wednesday for a New Deal panaeuropéen to help with the recovery in Europe and end the austerity policy.
"Today we turn the page of this error, this denial (that saving does not) that cost lives, or other weakened, which has a cost for our European partners, said in essence the Minister. The problem is not that Germany, Italy, and Slovakia, poorer than us, did not pay enough money to Greece. They gave more than they should. And that money went into a black hole, added Varoufakis while Greek banks were falling stock market, yielding more than a quarter of their value.
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