When news broke that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) planned to hand over the job of drawing up guideline codes on farm animal welfare to the industry, beginning with the poultry sector at the end of this month, nearly 150,000 people signed petitions objecting.
We are going to employ 200,000 more people in the public sector at the end of this process.
Admittedly some of the institutions that dramatically expanded their lending to the real estate development sector over the boom years were not highly exposed to this sector at the end of the past decade.
It was finally withdrawn from the sector at the end of the month for rest and recuperation.
Although state funding for health continued to increase, there was a growing funding gap caused by the departure of NGOs that had entered the sector at the end of the conflict.
I wouldn't move into the private sector, because at the end of the day it's a business.
First, unemployment skyrocketed beginning in 2008, so the growth in the ratio of regulators to private-sector employees at the end of that graph is likely to be driven by a fall in employment, not a rise in regulators.
According to Goldman Sachs, construction and housing-related employment in both countries made up 13% of all private-sector jobs at the end of last year, against 9% in America and 5% in Germany.
Nikos Voutsis, the tough-talking interior minister, told a private television channel at the weekend that without a deal, Greece would not be able to pay pensions and public-sector wages at the end of May while also meeting its IMF loan obligations.
Some Greek financial analysts fear that with monthly tax revenues shrinking at an ever-faster rate, the government will be unable to meet its obligations to the IMF as well as pay pensions and public sector wages at the end of the month.
