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Greece plans to recruit 20,000 to civil service, media report
By EUobserver
Alexis Tsipras' Greek government plans to hire 20,000 civil servants over the next year to help Greece's austerity hit education and health services. Government officials believe that the hiring will not run into objections from representatives of Greece’s international creditors, Kathimerini newspaper reports. The same sources denied that such a move could render the civil service beholden to leftist SYRIZA.