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HARDtalk: Vassilis Xenakis, Greek Trade Union Leader

27/04/2011

Vassilis Xenakis, Greek Trade Union Leader

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Stephen Sackur talks to Greek trade union leader Vassilis Xenakis.

Stephen Sackur asks Vassilis Xenakis, a key player in one of Greece's civil service union federations, about the current state of the Greek economy.

In 2010, Greece was saved from economic collapse by an emergency injection of EU-IMF loans. Or was it? The Greek economy is still in intensive care, and many outsiders still think default is inevitable. In Athens, the Government talks of austerity and wholesale economic reform, but are the words credible? HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to Vassilis Xenakis, a key player in one of Greece's civil service union federations.

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